Ozeino 7.1 Surround (white)

Ozeino 7.1 Surround (white)

By Ozeino · Gaming Headsets · Audio & Electronics

  • 7.1 surround
  • White colorway

Lowest price seen
~$19.84 (approx.)
from $19.84 at Amazon

Prices are snapshots. Check the current price with the store.

Problems, parts and running costs

Summary

A very cheap wired 3.5 mm gaming headset with 50 mm drivers, soft over-ear pads and USB-powered RGB — sensible for a child’s setup or a secondary console, not a way to get surround sound. Test the microphone on day one: owner reports describe mics going silent through PC splitters, and review aggregates describe durability as mixed.

Strengths

  • A broad feature set — drivers, boom mic, RGB, multi-console support — at a very low price.
  • No battery and no wireless dongle, so two common failure points simply don’t exist.
  • Soft, comfortable padding; owners repeatedly call it comfortable for the money.
  • Usable gaming sound for casual play, in owner reviews of this design.
  • Works with almost anything that has a headphone jack, from consoles to phones.
  • One owner who ran a mic test on this exact model came away impressed.

Weaknesses

  • The “7.1 surround” headline is marketing: the same listing copy calls the output stereo, and no surround hardware or software has turned up.
  • The mic is the weak link — owners report it detected but silent through PC splitters, or capturing game audio instead of voice.
  • Review aggregations describe durability as mixed, including breakage after short use.
  • The cable is captive; if it or the plug fails, there is no replacement part to buy.
  • Mostly plastic build, consistent with the price.
  • The warranty depends on which document you believe: three years per the brand site, one year per the manual page.

Verified specifications

ModelZW1, sold in white.
Drivers50 mm dynamic, neodymium.
Frequency range20 Hz–20 kHz, per marketplace catalog data.
Impedance32 ohm per catalog data; treat it as nominal, since the same catalogs disagree wildly on the weight.
Connectionone 3.5 mm plug for audio and mic; desktop PCs with separate jacks need the included 1-to-2 splitter.
USBpowers the RGB lighting only; it carries no audio.
Microphoneflexible 360-degree omnidirectional boom, marketed as noise-cancelling — a noise-reducing mic, not active noise cancellation.
CompatibilityPS4/PS5, newer Xbox controllers and Series X/S, Switch, laptops and 3.5 mm mobile devices; older Xbox One controllers may need a Microsoft adapter.
Constructionpredominantly plastic, faux-leather over-ear pads, padded adjustable headband.
Powerno battery; audio is analog.
Weightnot reliably published — catalog figures range from 240 g to 680 g.
Warrantythe Ozeino site says three years on all products; a ZW1 manual page says one year. Confirm at purchase.
Full research notes and sources

The 7.1 question

Plug it in by the cable and it is a stereo headset. The listing headline says 7.1, but the same copy says “stereo surround,” the USB lead only feeds the lights, and nobody has produced evidence of a surround processor or bundled software doing anything multichannel. Treat the number as spatial marketing rather than a spec. The same skepticism applies to “noise cancelling”: it describes the microphone’s noise reduction, and there is no active noise cancellation in the headphones themselves.

The microphone and the splitter

On a desktop with separate headphone and mic jacks, the splitter divides the single 3.5 mm plug in two — and that is where the reports pile up. One ZW1 owner had headphone audio working while the mic sat silent; others describe the mic picking up game or computer audio instead of their voice, a bleed complaint that appears in more than one thread. Some of this is PC jack or splitter configuration rather than headset wiring, so check your sound settings before blaming the headset — but the pattern recurs enough that the mic is the first thing to test when the box arrives.

Build, repairs and warranty

It is a plastic headset with a non-detachable cable, so treat the plug gently and keep sharp bends out of your bag. Replacement pads, cables or booms for this model have not turned up for sale. The upside of the simple analog design: no battery to swell and no dongle to lose. On paper the warranty is a genuine conflict — the current Ozeino site says three years on all products, while ZW1 manual copy says one year — so screenshot the warranty terms shown at checkout.

Is it worth it?

As a first headset for a kid, a spare for the second TV or guest visits, it makes sense at its usual very low price. Walmart listings for the same wired design ran about $17.59 to $23.99 by colour on 2026-09-28, and one exact-model owner mic test was filed at a $17 sale price; under $22 this is a lot of headset for the money, but past $30 the compromises stop being worth it. As a main gaming headset it does not: the mic path is the part most likely to frustrate, there are no spare parts, and the surround claim does not survive contact with the listing’s own copy. If you can stretch a little, sale-priced headsets from better-known brands are the sturdier buy. Check the store panel above for current prices.

Which model this is

This page covers the white Ozeino ZW1, the headset sold under “7.1 surround” listings; the Amazon listing is ASIN B09TB15CTL, which auction metadata maps to model ZW1, FNSKU X004R8ZNYP. Don’t confuse it with Ozeino’s OW310 or OW810 wireless models — different hardware, and their reviews don’t carry over. No independent lab has tested this exact listing; most “reviews” in search results restate the seller copy.

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