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When we reviewed the G4ME One, we remarked that it was one of the most comfortable headsets of its type that we had ever tested. We were even more pleasantly surprised by the comfort level offered by the G4ME Zero, as we preferred the feel of its leatherette earpads to the velvet earpads of the G4ME One.
Like the G4ME One, the Zero uses an over the head design, where the earpads press directly against the sides of your head and completely surround your ears.
The headband features a leatherette pad on the inside which helps spread the weight of the headset across your head. To ensure the best possible fit, the headband is adjustable on both sides.
Despite the similarities in the appearance between the G4ME Zero and One, the acoustic experience differs greatly between the two. Sennheiser kindly supplied us with a copy of Hitman Absolution to test with the headset as it was developed using their own sound recording equipment. As expected the game sounded very good with the headset, however we spent most of our time testing the headset on other games so that we can accurately judge it against other headsets.
We commenced our testing procedure with Battlefield 4, in which we found that the sound produced by the headset sounded a little hollow, especially when compared directly with the G4ME One. While game sounds were rendered accurately, gunshots and explosions lacked presence.
As we would expect from a stereo headset, the sound-panning was limited when compared to a virtual surround sound headset. This was also noticeable in our movie playback tests.
In our movie playback tests we also found the sound to be a little hollow. Speech was rendered accurately and sounded prominent, but general background noises and sound effects lacked presence.
Again, the sound produced by the headset in our music playback tests was hollow. We couldn’t find any genre of music which the headset was particularly well suited to. Our classical piano track (Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2) sounded particularly bad as the high notes were very harsh and the mid-tones lacking. Switching back to the G4ME One directly afterwards was much more rewarding throughout all our test tracks.
The one advantage that the G4ME Zero has over the One is the improved noise isolation thanks to the closed-cup design.
