One of my top gaming headset picks just got a new level of personalization – Audeze’s ReSkin ear cup covers allow you to ‘bring flair and personality’ to your headset

Audeze has announced ReSkin ear cups, a limited edition pack of ear cups for the Maxwell 2 headset
The series launches with six designs, including an entire set from a Southern California craftsman
The ear cups are available from Audeze for $39.99 or $59.99 and are compatible with both PlayStation and Xbox variants of the Maxwell 2

The Audeze Maxwell 2 is one of my absolute favorite gaming headsets in recent years. However, it is somewhat guilty of a familiar sin shared by many more audiophile headsets on the market: its aesthetics are very plain.

However, it was until now. Audeze has announced a new set of interchangeable ear cups called the ‘ReSkin’ line, allowing owners to take advantage of “Maxwell 2’s user-replaceable magnetic ear cups to give owners the chance to bring flair and personality to their headset” – and the first images released by the brand look seriously cool.

This is fantastic news on a few fronts. First of all, while the Maxwell 2 is really excellent as a gaming headset, its design is essentially a symphony of black or very dark materials, so ReSkin ear cups could be a perfect way to break it up and make the headset much more unique and original.

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Second, Audeze CEO Sankar Thiagasamudram has already stated that the brand will “regularly launch new designs and collaborations,” so we know that on top of these six initial designs, there are more to come, so the possibilities will be numerous and expansive—hopefully.

In these first six designs there is an x-ray style ‘showing off’ the massive planar magnetic drivers of the Maxwell 2, a slightly creepy but excellent looking eye design and, most importantly, a cat based design as well.

Here’s what Audeze has revealed so far:

Panopticon all-seeing eye
Flux Warning Futuristic Biohazard Sign
Kankan Koneko Angry cat
Planar Scan Audeze Driver Design
White Audeze Deco Cup Modern Style
Dia De Los Muertos No.001 – No.006 (Prestige Edition) — a set of six designs

And here’s how some of those designs look on the Audeze Maxwell 2. Some of them are absolute beauties.

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One of the designs featured in the Dia De Los Muertos suite of six individual designs by a Southern California artisan.(Image credit: Audeze)

It’s a similar system to that found on SteelSeries headsets, which allows users to replace the ear cups and headband with colors of their choice, and is a very welcome addition.

Audeze says these will be simple to use and “can be easily removed with a simple movement thanks to their lightweight magnetic design, making it easy for customers to switch between their favorite designs at any time.”

Coming in at $39.99 or $59.99, the ReSkin ear cups will be compatible with both PlayStation and Xbox variants of the headset and are available from the brand now.