You have one of these a PlayStation portal and you love it. You play games on the couch on the toilet on the porch but every now and then you run into this scenario when you want to get in a little bit of late night gaming and you can't find your wireless earbuds or headphones and you have to use your wired ones.
You need an audio solution that is compatible with the PlayStation portal as you mentioned at the top of the video.
Well, I guess you could say every audio option for the portal has its flaws. The explore buds are genuinely a great accessory for the portal. They offer great sound and low latency. However, they can be pricey and might not fit in your budget.
On the other hand, there is the Bluetooth dongle which offers a much cheaper alternative but you have to sacrifice some latency with certain games. You can get wireless earbuds or headphones that seem to work just as well for gaming purposes without spending all your money on overpriced options.
Now let's take a look at what these options have in store for us.
One of the most popular options is the explore buds which are specifically designed for the PlayStation portal. They offer great sound and low latency making them ideal for gamers who want an immersive audio experience.
The explore buds are genuinely a great accessory for the portal and they come with two different types of receivers that cater to different budgets. You can get the cheaper generic receiver which costs around 10 bucks but sometimes you can find it for as low as five or six dollars, and this more expensive Aventry relay receiver which costs closer to forty bucks.
The design of these receivers almost feels like they were purpose-built for the portal when you plug them in. They sit nicely in The Recess section of the device leaving the charging port free to use.
On the other hand there is the Bluetooth dongle which offers a much cheaper alternative but with some compromises on latency and sound quality. Some people might not be able to afford this option but if you are looking for a more affordable solution then it could work for you.
Let's take a look at how these options compare in terms of audio quality and latency by scrolling through the crossbar menu and tapping my finger once I hear the sound register.
The cheapy receiver is okayish but not stellar. It has some noticeable noise when there isn't any game sound to mask it. The audio floor is not that clean so you can hear some kind of static or just little artifacts like audio artifacts that you can hear while it's connected.
On the other hand, the more expensive Aventry relay receiver does sound a bit better and doesn't have that noise the cheapy one has in quieter moments of gaming.
If you're looking for a wireless solution and you don't want to fork out all the money for the explore buds then I would say it's worth spending a little bit more on the more expensive dongle just so you get a little bit better latency and quality in sound.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso you have one of these a PlayStation portal and you love it you play games on the couch on the toilet on the porch but every now and then you run into this scenario when you want to get in a little bit of late night gaming but even on the lowest volume setting it's still proves too much for your significant other yikes so naturally you look for options to alleviate the situation and those options are Sony's proprietary Link Technology Bluetooth dongles or just good oldfashioned wi headphones I tested out all these options so you don't have to so what do we have here we have the PlayStation pulse explore buds that are purpose built for the portal we have two USB dongles a cheapy cheapy one and a slightly more pricey one to see if there's any discrepancies there and we have a pair of cheap House of Marley wired earbuds together we're going to see what's what with the pros and cons when it comes to ease of setup I think you won't be shocked that the wide earbuds are the easiest by m you just plug in and play with the pulse explore you have to open up the case and hold down the pairing button for at least 8 seconds as in the side the pulse explore buds come with a USB dongle that slots into the back of your PS5 so if you put on your earbuds and you hear audio from both the buds and the external speakers of your portal that means you're actually connected to your PS5 rather than the portal finally with the Bluetooth dongles it's just a case of putting both them and your buds of choice into pairing mode at the same time all light should stop blinking once a connection has been established off the bat there is a lot to love about the pulse Explorer buds they look big and bulky but they still sit comfortably in the ear the sound you get out of them is great playing games like Tekken 8 you get a real sense of impact from every punch and the engine rumbles in Gran Turismo 7 sound amazing as well the added 3D audio support and those planner magnetic drivers put you right in the cockpit and you hear in which direction other cars are trying to overtake you it's wild and when it comes to latency it's damn near negligible you may notice a millisecond of lag when navigating the main menu but it is far from a deal breaker but one feature I didn't realize I'd love as much as I actually do is the fact that once you're paired with your portal you can then pair to another device by a Bluetooth I love getting into a longer gt7 racing session and putting on a podcast of course this feature works best if both audio sources aren't heavily speech based too many things to listen to at once you know if there were any downsides it would definitely be the price at 200 bucks the pulse explore are the same price as the portal and if you get both of those it's 100 bucks less than the full PlayStation 5 that is kind of hard to swallow when considering the portal itself is an accessory and then the pulse explore are an accessory to the accessory so I feel like this is the option for someone who is you know got suitable amount of disposable income now there's not a lot to say about using wired headphones or earbuds but you would think the better the quality earbud the better the overall experience right I've been using these house ofal earbuds alongside the Sony wh1000x Mark 5 and with the erss they sound a bit Fuller than the earbuds but generally speaking there wasn't a great deal of difference to my surprise the main downside to wir earbuds is obviously being Tethered to your portal and maybe on more than one occasion I have accidentally forgotten that fact and set the portal down yanking them out of my ears cuz I'm so used to just using wired headphones and earbuds now as I mentioned near at the top of the video I have two Bluetooth dongles one a little cheapy and one a little pricier so they're on opposite ends of the price scale this generic one you can get for around 10 bucks but some times you can find it for as low as five or six and this more pricey aventry relay you can get closer to 40 bucks starting with the cheaper one the design almost feels like it was purpose-built for the portal as when you plug it in it sits nicely in The Recess section of the device leaving the charging port free to use the more expensive aventry relay has a wide connection that will leave it dangling off your portal in the most ungraceful fashion but if you have a bit of tack or sticky tape you can easily Stick it to the back of the portal no problem now when it comes to audio quality and latency there is a noticeable difference the cheaper receiver lags maybe over half a second between your input and the sound whil the aventry relay maybe shaves a few more milliseconds off that you won't be able to hear it but I think I can show you the levels of latency between all these options by scrolling through the crossbar menu and tapping my finger once I hear the sound register and that should give you guys a sense of how much latency there is between all of them moving on to sound quality and the cheapy receiver is okayish sound quality isn't Stellar but it is usable but there is this noticeable noise when there isn't any game sound to mask it the audio floor is not that clean so there's like some kind of static or just like little artifacts like audio artifacts that you can hear while it's connected the thaton tree does sound a bit better and doesn't have that noise the cheaper one has in quieter moment of gaming I think if you're looking for a wireless solution and you don't want to Fork out all the money for the explore buds I would say it's worth spending a little bit more on the more pricey dongle the Bluetooth dongle just so that you get a little bit better latency and quality in sound okay what have we learned well I guess you could say every audio option for the portal has its foilables the explore buds are genuinely a great accessory for the portal great sound great latency but hosting the same as a portal make them the option for the more Ardent Sony fan or a gamer who doesn't mind spending that kind of money the Bluetooth dongles offer a much cheaper alternative but you do sacrifice latency and with certain games I'm not sure if it's worth that sacrifice really and truly the wir option may be the best option cuz you get Great Sound you get zero latency and you don't have to break the bank trying to spend a lot of money on over headphones cuz the more affordable cheap earbuds seem to work just as well obviously you might have better drivers but all in all I feel like the wied way is probably the best way if you don't mind being Tethered to your portal so those are my thoughts now I want to hear yours do you own a portal and if so what is your preferred audio solution drop them down in the comments and don't forget to leave a like And subscribe to the channel thank you so much for watching and catch you on the next one\n"
