As such if you have your PC close to you (say, sitting on your desk) then you won't have miles of wiring trailing all over the place. The connectors are gold-plated and an in-line control allows for volume adjustment and muting of the headset's microphone. But this won't help if the audio is already poor quality. All I know is it won't happen to me again. I always trusted CREATIVE, but after this I think I'll stick with LOGITECH, so far as headsets are concerned anyway.