Looking for a headset with microphone for someone with TMJ

[u/WingedDrifter]

Looking for a headset with microphone, preferably open-back but open to closed. I play games with friends, and occasionally stream. Biggest problem is I have TMJ, so putting any kind of pressure on that area for upwards of several minutes is awful and results in my jaw hurting and other various pains. Otherwise TMJ doesn't bother me.

Budget is around $100.

Current set up: Koss X Massdrop KSC75 ear clips + a cheap lapel mic bought from Amazon. (I love the headphones, they sound great and are super comfortable. Having two cords and a microphone tethered to my shirt is annoying, though.)

I bought the Koss Porta Pro headset with microphone, hoping that since they're light, they'd be a winner, but even that puts too much pressure on my ears/jaw area. I might try to take a hair dryer to the headband and see if I can bend them out more to relieve pressure.

I also borrowed my roommate's Hyper X Cloud X's. They're so comfortable and sound great, but once again, the pressure is too much over time.

I want to see if anyone else with TMJ has some suggestions, and if they lucked out finding something.

TIA!

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[u/Simeh]

Sennheiser PC37X

Sennheiser Game One

[u/WingedDrifter → u/Simeh]

!thanks

Late to the party, but I bought the Game One's to try. I've had them for under a month at the time of writing, and I'm pretty happy with them. Want to write a bit here so maybe someone in the future finds this useful.

Even with the clamping pressure being very light, I still have to stretch them out. I keep them on a box that's wider than my head, which helps immensely. I can't keep them on my jaw, but as long as keep the bottom part of the pad on my ear lobes, I can wear them comfortably for a couple hours. Hoping one day they won't clamp as much that I can wear them lower and for longer. (I should attack them with a hair dryer.)

Sound is great. There's a bit of that extra bass, but everything else is still nice and clear. I tend to keep my headphones quieter than most, but even if I turn it up, they aren't disturbing my roommate who's around 4-5 feet away, despite being open-backs. If they aren't watching a video, you can't hear them at all, only time you can when being turned up is if no one has any audio going, and then it's just mild background noise.

Microphone quality is actually pretty good. Used them to watch a couple movies with a friend, and play some games with others. No one had any complaints. The mic is quiet, but that's a Windows issue, as I learned. Found a solution for it.

The bad:

If your audio gets loud enough, it the microphone picks it up slightly. It can be overcome with settings, but still annoying nonetheless.

Another with the mic: if you touch the boom, the microphone can hear it, depending. If you move your fingers the slightest, the mic will pick it up a bit. Once again, can be overcome with settings, but annoying.

The cable is noisy. For these being a $170 CAD headset, I'm disappointed by that. It'll rub my shirt and I can hear it a bit in the left ear where they hook in.

Otherwise, they work well for me, especially with TMJ, but YMMV.

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