The Ultimate Headphone/Audio Thread. Seriously - Page 6

No way would I spend 100s of £ for a headphone when I just use them just for gaming. For music I use my speakers.

On May 24 2012 19:40 Ckalvin wrote:
http://www.meelec.com/category_s/326.htm

for your esoterikk. I'd highly recommend the SP51, as an owner and user myself.

On May 24 2012 06:54 IlK wrote:
Gaming Headsets are rubbish for Music, yes thats right.
Audiophile headphones with lots of bass and nice balance are rubbish for gaming.

U get it? Stuff like those Steelseries headsets are not made to listen high quality music, hell most of the people at lan listen to some rubbish mp3 files or audio-streams which sound shitty no matter which speakers/headphones you use.

U say some headphones+zalman mic are better, maybe they are i own some superlux headphones+zalman mic too, but i would never use them at a Lan or even when gaming some in bed since its a)long cords and b)two cords.

In order to make it work nicely i bought some cable sleeve, now its okay but that cost some money too and in the end the zalman mic may not be worse but it aint better either.

While browsing ebay before going to bed i found some Steelseries 5hv2 headset at Ebay and i thought hey i once owned it and i liked it. It eventually lost its function due to some drunk totally walking over it(only the mic cable got damage, the headphones itself survived) and now im getting a practically new one for about 15bucks=>THATS good value.

I got my first one for like 35bucks, that also was good value, but there i also got it cheap.

What i wanna say? Get gaming headsets if u get them cheap, dont pay 80++bucks for them u can get them all the time and the more people write bad stuff about them the better the price gets so go on blaming them but for mobile gaming+teamspeak its the best, at least the steelseries ones with nicely short cable+awesome extension(i still use the extension for my superlux).

Theres nothing different between <100bucks headphones and headsets if u listen to mp3, if u want good music get amp+good soundcard+good headphones and ur fine, but if u want to play and listen to some internet radio dont worry, get what u like!


Thats a pretty solid point there, IMO getting an awesome headphone beats speakers all the time as long as u stay below 1000++usd and ur neighbors wont start to hate u

On May 25 2012 00:34 Psychobabas wrote:


Well sure, but I dont want to be rooted in front of the pc all the time to be able to listen to music, I might want to do other stuff at the same time. Who actually just sits there, listening to music and doing nothing else? I want to cook, iron, talk with friends, move about etc etc

On June 03 2012 17:55 VanCaspel wrote:
Problem: this Thursday the finals of the NSSL will be played live. The casters, players and audience will be in the same room. Obviously, the players should only hear their game sounds, and not the casters / audience. The players will have IEM's and on top of that a CM Storm Sirius blasting white noise.

However: I've tried out this setup in my living room, and asked my flatmate to talk to me. When he used his normal speaking voice I couldn't hear him at all, but when he talked with a raised voice I could quite clearly understand him. I had the game sound at a level that was comfortable for me, and the whitenoise as loud as it could go without blocking out the game sound. At the finals, the casters will be amplified through speakers to the audience which will be even louder. In other words: I think my setup is insufficient for isolating the finalists.

I need to think of a solution fast. What I cannot do:
- Build an isolated booth. No time, no money.
- Buy headphones with active noise cancellation - no money (we got the Sirius' from our sponsor)

What other options do I have? I could buy simple noise reducing headphones (like they use in construction), but I feel that without the white-noise it won't be enough. Or will it?

Edit: tomorrow I'll borrow some isolating headphones (construction type) from a friend to see how they work.

On June 03 2012 21:50 VanCaspel wrote:
Obviously the IEM's alone don't isolate enough - don't think any IEM alone could do the job. So yeah: I hope the earmuffs I'm borrowing tomorrow will work better than full-volume white noise...