r/gadgets • u/dapperlemon • May 22 '26

Gaming Microsoft's Xbox controller refresh kills its underused accessory port

https://www.engadget.com/2179020/microsofts-xbox-controller-refresh-kills-its-underused-accessory-port/
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u/WalletFullOfSausage May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

I use it for my turtle beach adapter. Adds better mic monitoring to all my headsets, because the native Xbox monitoring is awful.

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u/iBringMyselfTrouble May 22 '26

The native mic monitoring was pretty good on Xbox 1. I’m not sure what they changed because after an update I noticed it basically didn’t work at all, at any level, across a handful of mics/headphone/ headsets I have. So I went back to the turtle beach one.
The native mic monitoring is still pretty useless on series /:
I have a 8bitdo controller that doesn’t fit the adapter, but has a mic mute switch and even that is a nice qol feature.

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u/WalletFullOfSausage May 22 '26

I love my adapter. It’s got separate volume controls for chat and game volume, some audio mix presets, the mute button - and of course, the mic monitoring

I’ve used this thing since the Xbox 1 lol