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tanker27 wrote:Surround sound in a headset is a gimmick dont waste your money on it.
Buy the best Audiophile cans you can get (Personally you can't go wrong with Sennheiser) and just buy the Zalman Clip on mic.
ChronoReverse wrote:He's asking for a gaming headset, not audiophile ones. I'm assuming "sounds good" means "good enough for games" and not "I can hear the scritch of a violin".
The key metrics should then be comfort (for long gaming sessions), the microphone and surround sound capability (keep in mind the multiple speakers in a headphone thing is a gimmick, the best you can get is HRTF). This means even USB phones are in contention.
Looking at the Plantronics link you provided, it doesn't look like it's a bad set for those purposes. The only thing that seems concerning is how the mic doesn't have background noise cancellation but that might not be an issue for you.
tanker27 wrote:No, No, NO!
This is totally the wrong advice.
ChronoReverse wrote:phantom cause against USB
Savyg wrote:ChronoReverse wrote:phantom cause against USB
For starters, nforce2 could use 200MB/sec for audio. That's megabytes.
That is one reason USB2 isn't good enough...and so far there isn't any USB3 audio kit even though it seems like a great idea.
Savyg wrote:ChronoReverse wrote:phantom cause against USB
For starters, nforce2 could use 200MB/sec for audio. That's megabytes.
That is one reason USB2 isn't good enough...and so far there isn't any USB3 audio kit even though it seems like a great idea.
ericfulmer wrote:No one is discounting your expert advice, but you are recommending a $200 set-up to a person who linked an $80 set-up as their current choice.
superjawes wrote:I think what tanker27 is trying to say is that in the long run, audiphile headphones will be well worth the investment because they will have better sound quality, will be more comfortable, and will last longer.
Savyg wrote:I had some steelseries before these. The construction was horrible...those old plastic clips that break if you look at them funny secured the earpieces.
Savyg wrote:For starters, nforce2 could use 200MB/sec for audio. That's megabytes.
Firestarter wrote:I've been using an USB headphone amp for several years now and never had a problem. The drivers ship with windows and the whole thing is stable as can be. I still use the normal soundcard for the microphone input and as a secondary sound card, but the USB amp has been my primary for years and still is on my high end PC from last february. Before that, I used it on a C2D laptop from 2006, no problems with stability, quality or CPU load.
So yeah, I don't doubt for one second that a quality USB headset would work just as well as any other. In fact, I bet it will sound *better* than the same headset directly from a standard integrated sound card. Lord knows that my Sennheiser HD 25-1's are laughably bad out of my 2006 laptop, but quite excellent out of that puny USB headphone amp.
Airmantharp wrote:If a USB mic can be good- a USB headset mic can be good.
I've hated the voice pickup quality of many mics- they're just bad, for whatever reason- but good USB headsets seem to work well for most.
moose17145 wrote:I personally owned a pair of Turtle Beach HPA 5.1 surround headphones and absolutely loved them. The surround actually worked very well. So idk what people are saying when they say its a gimmick. It certainly didn't sound that way to me.