Able Planet PS500MM

Cable Connectivity (6.69)

The PS500MMs’ cord is 6.5 feet in length. The cable should be a good length if you’re looking to use the headphones for PC gaming. It will not, however, be a good length of cord for console gaming, unless your console is located very close to your couch.

The cable ends in two seasonally festive 1/8-inch plugs. One is for the audio, and one is for the mic.

There’s also a USB adaptor included that merges the two outputs and allows you to connect them to a computer and use them as a separate sound device from your sound card.

Portability (0.92)

Due to their design, the PS500MMs aren’t very portable. Their cord is long and ends in two plugs. The headphones themselves are on-ears, so they’re not as portable as a set of in-ears, despite having the tiniest ear cups ever. They also have a mic, which looks awkward outside of the gaming/telemarketing setting.

The headphones also come with a small sack to carry them around in. It doesn’t help much more than any old pocket or brown paper bag would.

Maintenance (2.00)

Unlike most on/over-ear headphones, the PS500MMs aren’t the easiest set to maintain. You can remove the ear padding and there are a few screws on the band, but otherwise there isn’t a lot you can do to fix or clean your headphones.

Other Features (7.25)

Battery

The PS500MMs don’t require batteries, which is awesome. Batteries are lame and always die at inopportune times. We have therefore awarded these headphones some points, as our way of saying, ‘Thank you!’

Remote & Mic

The PS500MMs do have a microphone. In fact, we’d wager a guess that ‘microphone’ accounts for at least one of the M’s in the product’s name. The other M is probably some sort of adjective, like ‘marvelous,’ or ‘mighty.’

Speculation aside, the mic is implemented well. It’s attached to the headphones via a bendable arm. There’s also an in-line control pendant for switching the feature on and off.

Volume Control

There is an in-line volume control. It’s a wheel design, which we’re not too keen on. Often the wheel is very easy to turn, so any movement on your behalf will spin it in some direction. This being said, unless you’re playing some sort of team-based DDR variant on your computer, you probably aren’t planning on moving around a lot with these.