Need some audio advice.

[Jmmsbnd007]

Short and sweet: How are the Grado SR-80s? I heard nothing but good about them, but as always, I'm checking with Anandtech 🙂 These will be used for gaming, btw. It's about time I get some high-quality 'phones, sick and tired of the low-quality crap commonly associated with computers.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Bump.

 

[glen]

Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

 

[Savij]

Not sure about that model, but one very consistent thing i've heard about grado headphones is that they are annoying to wear for extended periods of time...

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Thanks for the helpful comment

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

Thats the exact reason I take my home theater setup with me on the plane, to the mall and also to the beach when I go. Its kinda a pain to haul all the gear and the 6 foot speakers but at least I get stereo.

 

[glen]

nice, simple, clear, in layman's terms:
Wikipedia on Binaural

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

Thats the exact reason I take my home theater setup with me on the plane, to the mall and also to the beach when I go. Its kinda a pain to haul all the gear and the 6 foot speakers but at least I get stereo.

I am not trying to be a pain in the ass.
I happen to know details that most folks don't know, and this is exactly the sort of information I am looking for when I post a question here.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

Thats the exact reason I take my home theater setup with me on the plane, to the mall and also to the beach when I go. Its kinda a pain to haul all the gear and the 6 foot speakers but at least I get stereo.

I am not trying to be a pain in the ass.
I happen to know details that most folks don't know, and this is exactly the sort of information I am looking for when I post a question here.

I don't care that it's not "true stereo". I was just looking for opinions on the SR-80s.

 

[opticalmace]

Few things...

The SR-80s are great headphones, but there are some shortcomings, especially when used for gaming:

1. They are uncomfortable to wear for extended periods of time. End up adjusting them a lot, moving them around, taking them off, etc.
2. They are limited to the abilities of your motherboard/sound card. There's lots of sound degradation in some systems, in my experience.
3. At least for the games I play, it doens't have very high-quality sound anyway, so the benefits are kind of lost when using Grados.

Anyway, they're excellent headphones, but not that great for gaming.

There you go.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

Thats the exact reason I take my home theater setup with me on the plane, to the mall and also to the beach when I go. Its kinda a pain to haul all the gear and the 6 foot speakers but at least I get stereo.

I am not trying to be a pain in the ass.
I happen to know details that most folks don't know, and this is exactly the sort of information I am looking for when I post a question here.

I wasnt being a pain either, just a smartass 😉 😀
No, I agree with you but honestly theres times headphones are preferable obviously.

 

[Howard]

What's your budget?

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

Thats the exact reason I take my home theater setup with me on the plane, to the mall and also to the beach when I go. Its kinda a pain to haul all the gear and the 6 foot speakers but at least I get stereo.

I am not trying to be a pain in the ass.
I happen to know details that most folks don't know, and this is exactly the sort of information I am looking for when I post a question here.

I don't care that it's not "true stereo". I was just looking for opinions on the SR-80s.

It is not even not "true" stereo, which implies some sort of essoteric detail; it is fundamental.
It is plainly and simply not stereo at all nor even close.
You might as well listen to mono

 

They are VERY uncompfortable, I gave them away after a month, i was sick of the throbbing on my ears. They hurt like hell. Sound isnt too bad IMO though.

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: glen
Short and sweet:
All headphones suck because they can not do stereo unless you use a special processor or binaural recording.

Listen to these binaural recording WITH HEADPHONES and you will hear stereo.http://www.krisbee.com/Field%20Recording.html

Thats the exact reason I take my home theater setup with me on the plane, to the mall and also to the beach when I go. Its kinda a pain to haul all the gear and the 6 foot speakers but at least I get stereo.

I am not trying to be a pain in the ass.
I happen to know details that most folks don't know, and this is exactly the sort of information I am looking for when I post a question here.

I don't care that it's not "true stereo". I was just looking for opinions on the SR-80s.

It is not even not "true" stereo, which implies some sort of essoteric detail; it is fundamental.
It is plainly and simply not stereo at all nor even close.
You might as well listen to mono

I really don't care. As said above, I can't lug a stereo around with me.