I have to say after owning a pair of Turtle Beach x11's for over 2 years and these are the best pair of stereo headphones/mics I've ever owned I thought what for a no my god son will be disappointed with a pair of beach XLCs in tortoise shell. Boy was I wrong! The stereo TV adapter was broken from the start, I spent over an hour getting it plugged in and working properly, I could only hear sound coming out of the left earbud unless I unplugged the stereo from the earbud. Adapter then I could hear the right earbud working and two days later it stopped working all together. But the microphone works great, unfortunately that's why I didn't buy it for my son's birthday. Needless to say (<sarcasm>), since I've got money running out of my pocket right now (</sarcasm>), I'm going to voluntarily throw it in the trash and buy a pair of X11's for my son, I should have done that in the first place. I still can't believe the difference between a low level turtle beach and a higher level turtle beach really matters, what a joke on turtle beach, you should be ashamed of posting such crap on our world!