Best Surround Headset

[geddiesburg]

Hey all,

I need a great set of surround headphones. Something with good bass. My only requirement is I need to be able to connect it (3.5mm plug) to my yeti pro for voice over. Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[videogames101]

http://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-Studio.../dp/B000XT8JTM

No, they are not surround.

They are better than any surround set, and you couldn't ask for better bass reproduction.

 

[Doom 4d]

There's really no such thing as "surround" headphones as far as physical surround goes. Multiple drivers don't work because they are spaced too close to the ear. You can get some directional cues from these drivers but it is not anything approaching the pleasantry of surround sound.

If you want surround sound, you're looking at a soundcard be it a PCI/PCIE soundcard or a dopey little junker attached to a gaming headset internally. If you want even better surround sound you're also looking at a mixamp. I'll post 2 extremely informative threads from Head-Fi that you should consider reading, that should let you make a more informed decision for yourself.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/534479/mad...guide-updated-11-12-12-sennheiser-hd650-added

http://www.head-fi.org/t/593050/the...-audio-with-binaural-headphone-surround-sound

 

[Phobo]

surround headphones aren't great >.< personally i can't really tell the difference

 

[geddiesburg]

So for $250,what hardware combination would you guys recommend? From what I'm reading you want to have a surround mixer and/or amplifier - suggestions?

 

[Doom 4d]

So for $250,what hardware combination would you guys recommend? From what I'm reading you want to have a surround mixer and/or amplifier - suggestions?

Personally? Audio Technia AD700 headphones (99.99 amazon), grab either an Astro Mixamp from the A40 setup on ebay or any dolby headphone mixamp on amazon (they're all about the same quality honestly, and run between 49.99-99.99) and just an X-fi Titanium soundcard (49.99-59.99) and a Zalman clip-on microphone (8.99 amazon). That's for gaming.

For watching movies, listening to music and so on I would maybe choose a more bass heavy pair of headphones, although honestly these are all closed-back and the pressure buildup tends to give me a headache over time, so I might just stick with AD700's even for home theater, since their sound is still very good and there is a big comfort factor.

It's worth mentioning that if money is tight, you do not need a mixamp right away. Creative's software and the community-made windows 7 64-bit drivers have no problem providing high quality digital surround on their own. Dolby headphone just enhances this. Even without the mixamp, a pair of real headphones combined with a soundcard that supports digital surround, will provide a better and more accurate surround sound experience than any of the headset gimmicks from tritton and razer with multiple drivers in each can, as well as providing higher quality sound since the drivers producing the sound are physically much larger.