Beyerdynamic MMX 300 Pro – Design and Comfort
The MMX 300 Pro is built on a metal frame with leather-like padding wrapped around the headband for comfort – the padding buckles onto the headset so you can remove it, although there wouldn’t be any reason to do so unless you want to customize or replace it. Each earcup extends out to accommodate bigger heads and voluminous hair as most headphones or headsets would. The frame itself is flexible and can twist or contort without feeling like it’s going to snap or get damaged, so you get the impression of durability right off the bat.
What makes the MMX 300 Pro comfortable to wear for long sessions is the densely padded earcups with their velvety velour upholstery. Velour is my favorite material for earcups on headphones and headsets, and these strike a wonderful balance between comfort, breathability, and sound isolation. Although the headset has a slightly tight clamp to it, I never felt like there was too much pressure even after two or three hours of wearing them. And over the course of a week of using them daily, they started to break in and feel even easier to wear.
Beyerdynamic MMX 300 Pro – Features
The MMX 300 Pro is a slim package; you get the headset, a 3.5mm dongle to unify the audio and microphone jacks (handy for consoles), and a pop filter for the mic – that’s it. Along the detachable 8.2-foot cable is the microphone mute toggle and volume control wheel (which acts independently of the device it’s connected to).
Since this is a wired analog headset, there are no onboard features like active noise canceling, built-in microphone feedback, or swappable EQ presets via software. This headset is tuned a specific way, so if you want to pair it with an amplifier or DAC, you can definitely get a more custom audio profile, but those are factors outside of the headset itself.
However, there’s a comfort in knowing that what you hear is what you get – especially when the MMX 300 Pro delivers some of the best audio I’ve experienced from a closed-back gaming headset. That’s because of Beyerdynamic’s “Stellar.45” audio drivers, which are also found on the professional-grade DT 700 Pro X and DT 900 Pro X headphones.
Beyerdynamic MMX 300 Pro – Sound Quality and Microphone
The MMX 300 Pro has the best sound quality I’ve experienced when compared to your typical gaming headset. By using the same tech found in its high-end headphones, Beyerdynamic stakes its claim on uncompromising audio, and that’s the hope considering the price tag.
As with other audio gear, I played ranked matches of Counter-Strike 2 and cleared several raid instances in Final Fantasy XIV, in addition to using the MMX 300 Pro as my daily headphones for music – the results were fantastic. Everything sounds full and bold due to its strong bass that doesn’t get distorted at loud volumes. Yet it remains balanced so as to not drown out other frequencies, so the clarity of mids and vocals are still highlighted. And with highs that tend to be ear-piercing at loud volumes on lower-end headsets, the MMX 300 Pro handled them wonderfully, letting me enjoy the details in the sound design of the games I played.