Headphones

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HuC_Chiii wrote: »

well for the fact you need to know, there is no real 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound if you use a headphone. You intake the sound from Left and Right ears which is 2.1 sound. The 5.1 or 7.1 is simply "virtual surround" sound which can be activate using software drivers like RealTek or STS Surround or DolbySound. In gaming, most recommend sound system is 2.1 stereo sound which gives you clear quality sound. There are 2 types of stereo headphones also. Open ear and closed ear. If you want best sound quality, open earcups is best. If you want decent to good sound quality but also somewhat noise isolation, the close cup style is the best. So 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound is simply make no different in gaming but it's good for "movies" if you looking to watch movies with it since 7.1 and 5.1 are purely made for home theater.
Back to gaming headphones, here are my best options.
Close earcups style: HyperX Cloud 1 ($80)
Open earcups style: Sennheiser Game Zero ($200)

Any headphones that are $200+ is simply because you buy them for the brand name, not for sound quality and build quality. (aka Beats and Apple stuffs)

If you're looking for something like for music and gaming at the same time, I would either go for Audio-Technica ATH-M50x, Sennheiser HD 598, Sony MDR-X10, Bose TrueSound, or Sony MDRXB950AP. They're from $100-200. Anything above $200 doesn't make much different unless you want to drop a $55,000 for the new Sennheiser headphone... or $1,400 for their HD800 series.

Yeah I've got to disagree. Personally open ear < closed 10/10. Closed give you noise isolation or suppression and normally also have better quality. To use your example of beats the studio and pro are better than or equivalent in every category than the solo. Also as I said before the beats suck now. As for the price not mattering I also disagree. I'd say everything 100-200$ is comparable, but then up to 400 from there are another category altogether. Now there are some brands that are in this range that are purely there because of their name and have no real upgrades from the 200$ range, but a little research can steer you clear of those.

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