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Lets talk headphones

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kilburns8

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So I recently stepped on my gaming headphones and broke them D:. To keep the party rollin' I just plugged in my in ear earbud headphones and quickly realized the sounds was better than my gaming headphones. So, my question to you all is, can I plug in a cheap mic into a usb and use that? Dont really want to drop another $200 on new headset when these headphones are glorious. TIA
 
Hell yes you can. I haven't used a headset in....ever. People always comment on how good I sound on vent/mumble/teamspeak. Used to use an old Packard Bell headset that came with my Pentium 1 200mhz MMX machine 😀. It finally broke after years and years of being carted around and wound up constantly from going to LANs, I bought the Logitech USB desktop microphone, and haven't looked back.
 
Or you could invest in a decent pair of gaming headphones. Most people use junk and don't realise it as they have no reference. I'm still partial to the Logi G35 for a reasonably priced set if you don't mind wired. Corsair HS1 has great reviews, but haven't tried them.
 
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Use your earbuds and get a Zalman ZM-MIC1. It's a high sensitivity mic that plugs in using a mic port. I use it with my Sony XB500 headphones.
 
awesome, thanks for the replies. will be getting a clip on mic! way cheaper than I thought. Ive owned 4 pairs of gaming headsets and they all have broken. Turtle Beach's, sharkoons, logitech.... earbuds seem to work fine.
 
"Gaming" headsets seem to be the most cheaply built pieces of crap I've ever used as headphones. I have a set of plantronics for portability, but at home I just use a combination of either my headphones and my webcam mic (logitech 9000) or just my speakers and webcam mic.
 
sdifox said:
not exactly, a lot of the expensive gaming headsets are still crap.
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Perfectly happy with e.g. my G35. What I find more often I have to say is that a lot of people who put on audiophile airs and haven't actually tried any notable products in this category make incorrect assumptions about utility, baseline quality and usability.

I ought to add that in the case of the Logitech above, a Beyerdynamic T1 sits right beside it (and yes, I have Zalman ZM-1's aplenty... which never get any use).
 
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