Edifier GX Professional Gaming Headset Review: Fortnite Nights With My Son Settled It

I’ve been playing Fortnite with my son on a fairly regular basis lately, and for most of it I’ve had the Edifier GX Professional Gaming Headset on my head. That’s the honest starting point for this review: these things have been excellent for us, and I keep enjoying them session after session. But you’re probably here because Edifier isn’t a brand you know well, and you want to know if a 345g wired headset from them actually delivers on comfort, sound, mic quality, and console play. Fair question.

A headset’s something you live with for years, so it’s worth picking carefully. I’ll weigh the build, the 345g heft, how the specs translate in a real battle royale, the mic, and a console quirk most buyers miss entirely: the PS4 controller mic “failure” that isn’t a failure at all.

Design and build: metallic headband, RGB, and the mid-match volume roller

The volume roller sits on the earcup and turns volume up and down; that’s the headset’s only volume control. The RGB lights are dynamic and can be turned off, more styling statement than feature. Edifier calls the whole package an “unprecedented user experience,” which is marketing copy doing marketing things.

Styling and build. The metallic headband is the standout: a genuine material touch that makes the GX look and feel a step above generic plastic headsets at this price. The retractable boom mic and the RGB lean futuristic; whether that reads premium or gamer costume is a taste call. Some guys want the lights.

Some don’t. Both are fine.

Using the roller in practice. Mid-match, this is the part you care about. You can find the roller and turn it without looking away from the screen, no fumbling for a keyboard or digging into menus. Small thing, done right.

One honesty note: Edifier’s FAQ tacks “many other gaming devices” onto its compatibility list, which is vague. The specific device list is the part to trust.

Comfort for long sessions: what 345g actually feels like

Yes, the Edifier GX is comfortable for long gaming sessions. The 345g weight is real, substantial without being a neck-breaker, and the self-adjusting dual-suspension headband is what offsets it. The headband settles onto your head on its own instead of clamping at a fixed tension, and the earcaps are breathable leatherette. Edifier claims no fatigue even in long-term sessions, and in my experience the claim holds up.

Here’s the trade-off in plain terms: a mid-weight build puts more on your head than a featherweight headset would, but a suspension headband spreads that weight across the top of your skull instead of concentrating it at one pressure point. That’s the difference between noticing you’re wearing headphones and feeling them. Across repeated Fortnite nights with my son, I never hit the point where I wanted the thing off my head. And the headband supposedly fits any head shape, which is exactly the kind of claim you can only verify by wearing it. It’s fit both of us fine, and we don’t have the same head.

The honest caveat is the earcups. Leatherette that breathes is better than leatherette that doesn’t, but it’s still leatherette, and the sweaty-ears question every gamer asks is fair to raise here. If you run hot or play in a warm room, that’s the variable to watch, not the weight.

Field note: Weight isn’t the comfort variable here — headband design is. If you run hot, watch the leatherette earcups, not the 345g.

Sound quality in-game: translating the spec stack into Fortnite

The specs: 50mm drivers, 20Hz to 40kHz frequency response, 97±3dB sensitivity, 32Ω impedance. What they mean: the 32Ω impedance plus 97dB sensitivity means this thing plays plenty loud straight off any controller or phone, no amp required, a stability of performance that makes it a solid gaming headset choice by itself. The 50mm drivers are the standard big-driver size for gaming headsets, and in a battle royale that translates to footsteps and spatial cues you can work with. During our co-play sessions, footsteps and effect sounds came through clean and directional enough to matter. Nothing sounded wrong, which is the plain compliment a balanced tuning earns.

Two honest caveats. That 40kHz top end is beyond human hearing; it’s a spec-sheet flex, not a feature. And this is a stereo headset: two drivers give you decent directional sound, not true 7.1, much like what you’ll find in an Arctis 3 gaming headset review, where light comfort and great sound earn goodwill despite the stereo setup. For Fortnite and casual play, that’s plenty.

Microphone and chat clarity, plus the PS4 controller mic fix

Chat clarity. The boom mic is retractable and omnidirectional, with a -38±3dB sensitivity rating. That number means it’s sensitive enough for normal chat, though it’s a spec-sheet figure, not a performance verdict, and in practice, as the Immerse GH20 review notes, the adjustable microphone offers pretty good quality. The retractable part is handy: tuck it away when you’re just listening, extend it when you’re talking.

The omnidirectional part cuts both ways. It hears the room, including your keyboard, not just your mouth. Chat came through clearly with a second voice in the room during our sessions, but expect it to pick up ambient noise too.

Mic silent on a PS4 controller? Use the USB cable. Here’s the tip that’ll save someone a needless return. The pattern buyers run into: the mic works fine on PC and phone, then goes silent through the PS4 controller’s 3.5mm jack.

The natural assumption is a defective unit. It isn’t. Edifier’s own FAQ says to connect via the USB cable instead, and that’s the fix. It’s a connection-choice issue, not a defect.

At most, I’d say USB can color the mic sound a little, but that’s opinion, not established fact. Either way, don’t box it up and ship it back before trying the other cable.

Quick test: If a PS4 controller’s 3.5mm jack kills your mic, swap to the USB cable before assuming the headset is defective.

Every platform, one cable map: PS5, PS4, Xbox, Switch, PC, and phone

Yes, the Edifier GX works with PS5 via Type-C, USB, or 3.5mm, and per the manufacturer it also runs with PC, laptop, phone, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One, where the 3.5mm plug goes straight into the controller’s port, no adapter. Anything with a 3.5mm jack works. I’ve only used it for PC gaming myself; the rest is the maker’s list, not my hands.

The box has the manual and all three cables.

Playing Fortnite with my son: the co-play verdict lens

Yes, this is a good headset for shared Fortnite sessions with your kid, and I say that from actually doing it. The things that matter for family gaming are exactly the things the GX handles. Party chat stays clear with a second voice in the room. The volume roller lets me dial sound up or down one-handed mid-match without pausing anything. And the self-adjusting headband fits both my head and a younger one, which isn’t true of every fixed-tension headset we’ve tried.

The closed-back design blocks enough household noise that even at lower volume we can focus on the game instead of whatever else is happening in the house. That’s passive isolation doing quiet, useful work.

Where I’d draw the line: shared casual sessions are the sweet spot. If you’re a solo competitive player chasing every positional edge, you have different demands than a dad and his kid dropping into a match, and I’d weigh other options accordingly.

Can you trust Edifier? Brand quality judged by this unit’s build

Edifier headphones are of good quality, going by what this unit demonstrates. That’s a flat answer to a fair hesitation: Edifier isn’t one of the usual gaming headset names, and buying from a less-mainstream brand means the marketing can’t do the persuading for you. So judge the hardware instead.

What this unit’s build actually shows: the 345g construction feels substantial rather than hollow, the metallic headband is a real material choice, not painted plastic, and the three-connector flexibility (Type-C, USB, 3.5mm) means the design isn’t locked to one device type. Edifier also has a longer history in audio than its gaming-profile suggests, which shows in a tuning that doesn’t have anything obviously wrong with it.

What one unit can’t prove is durability over years, and I won’t pretend otherwise. A short honesty ledger:

That’s where this review sits: between the maker’s marketing copy, which will tell you everything is unprecedented, and Reddit anecdotes, which will tell you one guy’s defective unit defines the brand. Owned use with named limitations is the evidence neither of those provides. Prices may vary, but on value for what you get, the “good for what it costs” framing holds.

Verdict: buy it for family gaming, and the low-risk way to test it

Yes, the Edifier GX is worth it for casual and family gaming, if wired-only works for you.

Who should skip it. Anyone who needs wireless, sits too far from the TV for a 1.2m cable, or wants audiophile-grade competitive sound.

The low-risk trial. Buy from an authorized Edifier retailer so you get a genuine product with fast local shipping, test the USB workaround if a PS4 controller mic goes quiet, and use the 30-day money-back guarantee if it still isn’t right. Sending it back isn’t a fight.

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