anyone got advice? wife asked what i wanted for christmas so i started looking at these

you can spend up to 300 bucks i guess but the 150 dollar range is probably more than enough

fuck you evan i hope you die

Here is a couple

astro a40 or that top $ razer one

i googled this and researched, just wanted to see what my best friends think

im prob getting the razer ones myself sooner or later....cant see spending over 200$ on headphones

yea i guess the triton ones are awesome

too

donno, it would be awsome to have dolby 7.1 but i dont know if it actually works in headphones. wireless would be great and something over the ear so i cant hear anything other than the game would be great

No, it doesn't. Headphones have two speakers that input directly into your two ears.

about spending that much on a gaming headset, you could get a solid pair of headphones for $100ish (Grado SR-60/80, Sony MDR-7505, Sennheiser whatever) and you could always clip a mini microphone onto that. You could also get a proper vocal microphone (Shure SM58 or whatever) for around $100.

In my experience, you don't get more by spending a lot more on a headset for gaming, and the higher end ones have inferior sound quality to a lot of headphones that cost less. about wireless though.

http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/...goryId.35096300

thats the oneim talking about

ya was thinking this also, but apparently some headphones have 4 speakers in each ear (front, rear, middle, bass)

Razer products are good

look awesome, but clearly compatible with xbox360

i dont even know who you are

wtf is an xbox?

new self pleasure contraption.

its a new kind of golf club, you wouldnt know anything about it

ahhh k thought it was some kinda drink

def on steve's side here

dont spend that much on a gaming headset get a nice pair of headphones instead, oh god do i want a nice pair of grados or sennheisers

apparently you can buy $1500 sennheisers

You get serious diminishing returns on audio gear. Some of the things that can really improve are sound isolation and a bit more balance across the spectrum. Still, most of the guys I know who do professional production don't spend that much on headphones or speakers. One guy who is known for mastering albums told me he uses a dozen different headphone/speaker setups to listen, but none of them cost more than a couple hundred. I think that's really reasonable, since the majority of people don't listen on expensive sound systems, but there's a lot of variation. High-end audio is mostly what you personally think sounds good, and thinking that something sounds good because you paid a lot for it.

i have a pair of creative ep-630 earbuds for five years now that still sound better than any cheap/middle ground earbuds i've ever listened to/owned before/since. i think they cost me ~$15 on sale from amazon



i freely admit i have a hard time taking anyone's opinion seriously about audio/music on campus if i see them with skullcandy or beats. that has no relevance to this topic other than please don't buy skullcandy or beats if you get headphones/earbuds clearly strictly for gaming. they are ridiculous

This post has been edited by lobb on Fri - Dec 23 2011 - 02:15:26

I mostly agree, but a lot of discount stores carry the low-end SC stuff pretty cheap. Ink'd earbuds are extremely inconsistent and clearly worth $20, but they're worth $5-10 if you don't mind them breaking in under a year. Beats are garbage, there are better headphones for what they do for half the price or less.

i feel like people think stuff is good just cuz its expensive for a lot of things. also, most people dont shop around/read reviews like a crazy nut like i do.

we will see what my wife gets, all i told her is that is has to be compatible with my xbox

do turtle beachs only work with 360? everyone talks them up

ya they only work with 360, you have to jerry rig for it to work with pc