Gaming Headphones?

[phxspurfan]

Grado SR-80 I believe. Also some Sennheisers but those are for my piano

[NASpurs]

Nope, haven't even heard of them, but I've been out of the headphone game for a while. I got my 5th pair of headphones and called it quits for a while.

Well they're arrived today. I popped in Pink Floyd, put on some "Echoes" to test it out and OMG! It's like my ears are having sex to Pink Floyd. ing orgasmic. I have never spent so much money on headphones and I've read you have to burn these in but I'm truly speechless. I don't have any experience in comparing these to anything else besides cheap earbuds yet I feel like I've been missing out on headphones like these all these years!

[Cry Havoc]

Well they're arrived today. I popped in Pink Floyd, put on some "Echoes" to test it out and OMG! It's like my ears are having sex to Pink Floyd. ing orgasmic. I have never spent so much money on headphones and I've read you have to burn these in but I'm truly speechless. I don't have any experience in comparing these to anything else besides cheap earbuds yet I feel like I've been missing out on headphones like these all these years!

Everyone who tries out a pair of good headphones says this.

Everyone who hasn't scoffs at how much money headphones cost, thinking they couldn't justify the sonic difference.

It's an odd thing that advertising and hype has done to our musical tastes. $300 for an mp3 player is fine, but more than $20 for a pair of headphones is utterly ridiculous.

Just goes to show how stupid the average consumer is. I see those white iPod earbuds EVERYWHERE, and I just think to myself how many fools there are that never question what they're told about what to buy/own.

I've thought about letting people try out my headphones in public... maybe I should start doing that...

[NASpurs]

Everyone who tries out a pair of good headphones says this.

Everyone who hasn't scoffs at how much money headphones cost, thinking they couldn't justify the sonic difference.

It's an odd thing that advertising and hype has done to our musical tastes. $300 for an mp3 player is fine, but more than $20 for a pair of headphones is utterly ridiculous.

Just goes to show how stupid the average consumer is. I see those white iPod earbuds EVERYWHERE, and I just think to myself how many fools there are that never question what they're told about what to buy/own.

I've thought about letting people try out my headphones in public... maybe I should start doing that...

I've seen the light man. I've thought audiophiles were just ing snobs and thought a cheap pair of earbuds would suffice but all I have to say is

[phyzik]

I've seen the light man. I've thought audiophiles were just ing snobs and thought a cheap pair of earbuds would suffice but all I have to say is

Welcome to fold of high quality listening.

*update*

A roommates kid ed up my Plantronics 750 DSP headset a few month ago.

Thinking about getting a set of Creative Sound Blaster Arena headphones.... I have seen great reviews for them.... $100 or so though....

[Cry Havoc]

Welcome to fold of high quality listening.

*update*

A roommates kid ed up my Plantronics 750 DSP headset a few month ago.

Thinking about getting a set of Creative Sound Blaster Arena headphones.... I have seen great reviews for them.... $100 or so though....

Sigh, no offense, but very little (or nothing) branded "Creative" is even decent. The headphones NAS bought will blow anything made by Creative away. Anything. Period. People who review them are gamers who are looking for big heavy bloated bass and they've never experienced truly balanced sound from headphones.

In the $100 range you want to be looking at Grado or Sennheiser. High quality listening starts at $100 (with the exception of the Grado SR-60s for rock music). Anything under that is nearly unacceptable, as far as hi-fi standards go.

, audiophile level sound doesn't really kick in until around $300. Yes, it's expensive, but if you take care of them, a pair of headphones will last 10 years, or even more. What's $300 for 10 years of bliss?

The IEMs in my sig will absolutely destroy anything made by Turtle Beach, Logitech (although they own UE now), or even Bose. Seriously, anything, full size or in-ear. There is NO subs ute for quality drivers.

[phyzik]

Sigh, no offense, but very little (or nothing) branded "Creative" is even decent. The headphones NAS bought will blow anything made by Creative away. Anything. Period. People who review them are gamers who are looking for big heavy bloated bass and they've never experienced truly balanced sound from headphones.

In the $100 range you want to be looking at Grado or Sennheiser. High quality listening starts at $100 (with the exception of the Grado SR-60s for rock music). Anything under that is nearly unacceptable, as far as hi-fi standards go.

, audiophile level sound doesn't really kick in until around $300. Yes, it's expensive, but if you take care of them, a pair of headphones will last 10 years, or even more. What's $300 for 10 years of bliss?

The IEMs in my sig will absolutely destroy anything made by Turtle Beach, Logitech (although they own UE now), or even Bose. Seriously, anything, full size or in-ear. There is NO subs ute for quality drivers.

Thanks for the advice, I rarely use headphones as it is these days... Got a nice 7.1 surround sound kit that does the job well enough.... but sometimes I need to keep it quiet during those late night excursions.

[Cry Havoc]

Thanks for the advice, I rarely use headphones as it is these days... Got a nice 7.1 surround sound kit that does the job well enough.... but sometimes I need to keep it quiet during those late night excursions.

The advantage headphones can provide over speakers is conveying a feeling of closeness to the music or game. A sound system is nice, but it doesn't allow your ears to pick out the finest detail like a headphone can, as headphones are so close to the ears they can easily transmit more finite amounts of detail to your ears/brain.

Now, don't get me wrong, nothing approaches the breadth and depth of a great sound system, as far as sound open and awesome. However, if you want to feel like you're sitting in a private concert with a band, listening to them play in some backwater bar somewhere, then a good pair of headphones can really, honestly do that.

[Sense]

My 202's recently stopped working... well not really, but the left side disconnected or something.. so I decided I'm going to go for something a little more expensive..


So far no other reviews have impressed me more than the Sennheiser HD 448 headphones...

[Heath Ledger]

I have the Tritton AX Pros no complaints here.

[Sense]

I have the Tritton AX Pros no complaints here.

The reviews for those are all mixed up... for headphones that cost 163 dollars... 63 dollars more than the once I just mentioned... it has a lot of cons

[TDMVPDPOY]

the bezel of ur headphones, does it get oily from ur forehead?

[Heath Ledger]

No Im not Mexican.

[Slydragon]

Anyone try the PX5? I wanted a wireless headset that would work with both ps3 and Xbox and have wireless chat work for both.

http://www.amazon.com/Programmable-W.../dp/B003O6N64Y

I also got the Xbox Bluetooth dongle for the controller to be truly wireless.

http://www.amazon.com/Xba-Bluetooth-...2119695&sr=8-1

I even got some Sanyo's XX Eneloop rechargeable batteries to keep me going.

http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Battery-...2120060&sr=1-6

Should get it by Tuesday.

[The Reckoning]

bought the X12 turtle beach headphones for the 360 today and holy ....awesome.

i bought a hdmi cable with it to use it on my hdmi vizio... ing amazing. i cant believe ive been gaming so long without decent headphones.

its like a movie theater glued to your ears. playing battlefield i can hear the water above me on the roof dripping down and people around a building corner.

skyrim...in ingcredible.

[Slydragon]

I always play with my px5 on since i got them. Took me a month to tweak them to my liking. Not sure how yours are but the px5 have 7 saved setting slots I can tweak when I hook it to my laptop. I mean it has tweaks for EVERYTHING highs, mids, lows and everything in between. Plus tweaks for the mic's audio settings like how loud I have to talk so it picks up my voice but not the background noise or how I hear people voices.

One thing I didn't like at first was the lack up deep bass but after a bit of playing I can understand why its tone down. I would be missing all the small detailed sound if I had crazy bass. I found a good balance of both.