calls work pretty well if youre in a quiet space. I narrowed it down to the final two racks. So pretty hit or miss it seems. Upon receiving the headset, I plugged it in, and tried to set up the mic. - A lot of fiddling around settings and tweaking in too many games. My sister and I can hear it no problem but our dad cant seem to. I havent been able to run the battery out after using it for hours. As I am a tropical person and love to go out bare feet, going with a Birkenstock is perfect. I love my new Senso pods! This is going to be LONG.