Xbox Wireless Headset Hack

I love nothing more than a good on-line game on the Xbox, but I’ve always found the available headsets inadequate in one way or another.

Lets start with the wired one, issued with the system. The overhead fitting is great and comfortable, but wired?? I don’t think so. So as with many of you I purchased the official wireless headset. Good charge, decent mic, but damn the over ear rubber torture ring was a killer. I’ll admit my ears are fairly big and after 30 mins or so the pain was unbearable.

My solution – fuse the two together and this is what I came up with:

What do you need:

• Xbox Wireless Headset
• Xbox Wired Headset (you probably got one with your xbox)
• Sharp utility knife
• Strong glue (I used loctite)

I started by removing the rubber ear hook from the wireless headset. They just pull off easily enough, exposing two little nubs that the rubber latches on to. These are held on by tiny little security screws. I managed to undo them with the smallest flat head I had, although I wrecked the head once I’d finished.

Now we take the knife to the wired headset and cut off the speaker and mic part. This can be roughly cut to start with, finishing with as level a cut you can make at the red line shown in this image:

This gives you a nice flat surface that can then be easily glued to the top side of the wireless headset as seen in the main picture. You may end up with a slight overlap which can be trimmed off once the glue has dried.

That’s it. A nice, comfortable, wireless headset for your Xbox 360. Enjoy!