In the world of wireless gaming headsets, there's one spec that draws me in like a moth to a flame: battery life. Particularly 100-hour+ battery life. Wireless cans have come a long way in the last decade, but plugging them in all the time is an annoyance. If I can get away with multiple days without messing around with a cable, I usually will.

Which brings me to the Edifier G5 Max. Or the Edifier Hecate G5 Max, if you believe the writing on the box. It's got an astonishing "are you really sure" battery life spec of 305-hours, which meant I had to give it a look.

And now I've got one in my hands, I can confirm the battery life is impressive. Only the original HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless comes close. But the G5 Max, for its $150/$160 price tag, isn't quite the full ticket in other departments.

For one, it comes with a remarkably boxy default sound profile, so you'll want to do some EQ tweaking in the software to sweeten it up. That's usually no big deal—except the EQ presets are as blunt as a hammer, so you'll need to play around with the sliders yourself if you want to get the most out of it. The 53 mm composite drivers are actually fairly decent once they've been fiddled with, but this is a set that massively benefits from some user assistance.

And for two, it doesn't have "$150 gaming headset" characteristics. This is a very light set of cans, coming in at just 305 grams.

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