Surround sound headphones
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If you have the cash , I can recommend the Creative Labs Rage 3D , 7.1 surround sound , noise cancelling , wireless , very comfy , 16 hours on one charge and a unpluggable/detachable microphone.
Range on them is really good as well...I sometimes answer the front door wearing them without thinking and can hear the sounds still 15 feet away through 2 walls...as well as see the confused/bemused look of the person ringing the doorbell...
Range on them is really good as well...I sometimes answer the front door wearing them without thinking and can hear the sounds still 15 feet away through 2 walls...as well as see the confused/bemused look of the person ringing the doorbell...
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If you only need it for a PC..... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003U55WWS?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00
Yes , sorry , creative labs , I was looking at my HOTAS when I typed logitech
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Blast...e=UTF8&qid=1432121176&sr=1-1&keywords=rage+3d
£79-00
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I'd just get good headphones, admittedly I haven't tried any of these gaming headsets because they tend to be overpriced for the quality and a mic but I'm very satisfied with my HD598's. They sound great and I can pinpoint locations in CS for example.
Sennheisers and modmic FTW That's the setup I plan on getting.
Headfi is a great place btw.
Seriously, after researching surround sound headphones and positional audio I realized that all those Gaming Headsets are a gimmick. There is no such thing as hardware "Surround" these gaming oriented Headsets as they only have one set of drivers per side. Multi driver headphones exist but they are not that great (I hear) given the small headphone space not allowing adequate distance separation between physical drivers. Then there are those USB headsets that say they are 5.1 or 7.1 headsets. Well, They are plain old vanilla stereo headsets with fancy verbiage since they have 2 drivers, not like a 5+1 or 7+1 speaker setup. They come with their own 3D software/Sound driver that takes apart the stereo stream and emulates a multi-positional space. However these implementations don't all sound that great IMO. I tried Creative's CMSS-3D and SBX along with Razer 3D surround implementations (CMSS and SBX are creative soundcard implementations). You can actually download a free version of Razer 3D to use with your own Headphones to try it's attempt at 3d sound augmentation. It's the same software that comes with their line of Headsets. The software manipulated 3d positional emulation was always odd in some way for me and caused artifacts.
http://www.razerzone.com/surround
Creative did offer SBX Software at one point that was a software solution to what they implement in their current cards for only for 9.99 and I tried it but never stuck to using it.
I found that a quality high end Open Headphone with a wide sound stage sounds the best. Open headphones give the best dynamic sound stage. Then just pair it up with something like Modmic. Head-fi.org was a great place to learn.
Test your Headphones with Virtual Barbershop, it's an amazing demo of what a good stereo headset can do. Very Trippy when you close your eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
Another good positional sound test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u163wC6mP2A
Anyhow, just some input from my own research for what it's worth. I'm not an audiophile expert so this is just a layman summary of what I learned in the process
Take Care.
That's the setup I plan on getting.Headfi is a great place btw.
Seriously, after researching surround sound headphones and positional audio I realized that all those Gaming Headsets are a gimmick. There is no such thing as hardware "Surround" these gaming oriented Headsets as they only have one set of drivers per side. Multi driver headphones exist but they are not that great (I hear) given the small headphone space not allowing adequate distance separation between physical drivers. Then there are those USB headsets that say they are 5.1 or 7.1 headsets. Well, They are plain old vanilla stereo headsets with fancy verbiage since they have 2 drivers, not like a 5+1 or 7+1 speaker setup. They come with their own 3D software/Sound driver that takes apart the stereo stream and emulates a multi-positional space. However these implementations don't all sound that great IMO. I tried Creative's CMSS-3D and SBX along with Razer 3D surround implementations (CMSS and SBX are creative soundcard implementations). You can actually download a free version of Razer 3D to use with your own Headphones to try it's attempt at 3d sound augmentation. It's the same software that comes with their line of Headsets. The software manipulated 3d positional emulation was always odd in some way for me and caused artifacts.
http://www.razerzone.com/surround
Creative did offer SBX Software at one point that was a software solution to what they implement in their current cards for only for 9.99 and I tried it but never stuck to using it.
I found that a quality high end Open Headphone with a wide sound stage sounds the best. Open headphones give the best dynamic sound stage. Then just pair it up with something like Modmic. Head-fi.org was a great place to learn.
Test your Headphones with Virtual Barbershop, it's an amazing demo of what a good stereo headset can do. Very Trippy when you close your eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
Another good positional sound test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u163wC6mP2A
Anyhow, just some input from my own research for what it's worth. I'm not an audiophile expert so this is just a layman summary of what I learned in the process
Take Care.
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Exactly. Right now, you're best off buying the best stereo headphones you can. The 3d spacial SDK being introduced with VR is going to completely change the game, and it will be designed for stereo headphones. I personally run open-ear senheizers.
Basically everything the last two guys have said. I have the sennheiser/modmic combo, that's coming from an ASTRO A30 + MIX AMP setup.
The best thing that came from that Astro mistake was the MixAmp, it has Dolby/Amp style encoder built in which gives me virtual 5.1 and 7.1 without the need for any software in all games.
The best thing that came from that Astro mistake was the MixAmp, it has Dolby/Amp style encoder built in which gives me virtual 5.1 and 7.1 without the need for any software in all games.
"Surround" headphones don't work too well on their own. We can perceive sound coming from a certain direction because it is slightly changed by our heads and bodies. We are training to judge the direction a sound is coming from since the day of our birth. Since headphones sit on one's ears, these changes to sounds aren't happening and need to be reintroduced to the audio signal. There is no generic approach to this as all our bodies differ from one another. Best we can do is to approximate.
Further info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
Further info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
I recently bought a set of the razer kraken 7.1's. after hearing them in stereo mode with ED set to rift(headphones) I just left em at that. but I do really like the kraken 7.1.. my brother has the G930's and the only difference is the wireless option.3