Sony announces PlayStation Pulse Explore earbuds and Pulse Elite wireless headset
Sony has announced the Pulse Explore wireless earbuds and the Pulse Elite wireless headset for the PS5 console.
The Pulse Explore wireless earbuds are the first-ever officially internally developed buds for the PS5 and will retail for $199.99 / £199.99 (around AU$310) with an exact launch date or pre-orders yet to be confirmed.
As revealed in a PlayStation Blog post, Hideaki Nishino, Senior Vice President of Platform Experience at SIE writes: «With Pulse Explore, we’re pleased to be one of the first companies to provide wireless earbuds to the mass consumer market using planar magnetic driver technology». This was first rumored back in February, but will now be officially released sometime this year.
It sounds as though the Japanese hardware company will be leaning into the technology that has backed some of the best headphones and the best earbuds, including the stellar Sony WF-1000XM4. Nishino writes that: «Pulse Explore is our first set of wireless earbuds, providing a premium portable audio experience with dual microphones and AI-enhanced noise rejection capable of filtering background sounds». He continues: «It also offers lossless audio and comes with a charging case». We'll know whether or not these are some of the best gaming earbuds when we test them later this year.
Also of note is the upcoming Pulse Elite wireless headset which will retail for $149.99 / £129.99 (about AU$230) as an evolved form of the Pulse 3D headset which launched with the PS5 console in November 2020. What's new with this pro-level variant is lossless audio, a retractable boom mic, and AI-enhanced noise canceling to filter out background noise. The package also comes with a charging hanger. Whether or not this new model can be considered
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