Closer Examination, Build Quality and Comfort

The 1MORE Spearhead VRX is based on a dual-headband design we all know and most of us like. The outer headband is made out of stainless steel, while the inner one has a plastic core, but most of it is padded. The principle of this design is simple—instead of having to adjust the "height" of your headset, you just put it on your head and the inner headband stretches as necessary. It's a practical solution, one that regularly results in good wearing comfort as well, and that's no exception in the case of the 1MORE Spearhead VRX.


The ear cushions are very soft to the touch and covered in pleather. Depending on the size of your ears, they might surround them completely or sit on top of them. Latter was the case for me. Despite that, I had no comfort-related issues as the clamping force isn't too high, and the sheer softness of the ear cushions made them pleasant to my ears. Unless you have an exceptionally large head, you should be able to wear the Spearhead VRX for multiple hours at a time with no issues at all. Your only potential enemy is heat—like with any other headset equipped with pleather ear cushions, your ears could get warm. The insides of the ear cushions are made out of red fabric with distinctive markings for the left and right channel. The circular ear cushions can be removed and replaced if need be.


I keep being perplexed by the existence of RGB effects on devices that aren't visible to the user while being used, but that doesn't change the fact that the 1MORE Spearhead VRX offers a fairly elaborate RGB lighting system. It comes with an illuminated logo on both sides of the frame, two glowing rings on the ear cups, and a retractable glowing stick you may easily confuse with a microphone. Not only is this not a microphone, it actually serves absolutely no purpose other than to improve the aesthetics of the Spearhead VRX. It can glow constantly or blink whenever the built-in pinhole microphone picks up a sound. The exact color of all illuminated parts of this headset can, of course, be manually adjusted within the software driver.


You might think that the glowing stick protruding from the left ear cup is where the microphone capsule is hidden away, but you'd be wrong. The stick is there exclusively for decorative purposes and to give the headset some interesting RGB effects, as it will light up whenever the microphone picks up your voice.


The 1MORE Spearhead VRX actually uses a pinhole microphone like the ones you would find on a pair of travel headphones and use for phone calls. This is an odd design choice as you generally want your microphone capsule to be as close to the mouth as possible in order to minimize the impact of room acoustics and make it sound the best it can. You can find more about its behavior in the "Microphone Performance" section of this review.


The 1MORE Spearhead VRX has two more rear-facing microphones that are essentially "listening" to the environment and being utilized for the microphone noise canceling feature, should you decide to activate it in the software driver. This is yet another feature I'll put to the test in the "Microphone Performance" part of my review.


The outer side of the left ear cup is where you'll find the microphone mute switch and a nice volume dial. If you press the volume dial in, it will switch from adjusting the sound volume to controlling the level of bass.


The left ear cup also contains both supported connectors: USB and 3.5-mm analogue. For most intents and purposes, you should stick with the USB connectivity as that's the only way to fully utilize everything this headset has to offer (3D audio, system-wide equalizer, RGB effects, etc.). The analogue connection is supposed to only be used if it is the only way to connect the Spearhead VRX to the sound source, i.e. when combining it with mobile devices or older consoles.


1MORE supplies two detachable cables. Both of them are rubberized. The USB cable is 2 meters long, while the 3.5-mm audio cable measures 1.4 meters. The latter has a pinhole microphone attached to it and terminates in a 4-pole TRRS plug.