Great price on a 5.1 true surround sound headset, the USB is for power, would require a dedicated sound card to get the most out of it (or at least a motherboard with 5.1 surround sound support), I'd recommend an Asus Xonar DG. Coolermaster products feel quite solid and well built, if you tend to break everything like I do there'd be no issues with this headset.
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Great price on a 5.1 true surround sound headset,
Ha. Thanks for the belly laugh.
In all seriousness, you don't want any form of surround sound headphones (read: stereo headphones with software virtualisation). You want a good pair of regular headphones. Combine that with a decent headphone amplifier and you're golden.
Surround sound headphones can't work, unless humans evolve substantially larger ears or the headphones are of monstrous proportions and neither of those things will sell well.
Also, the clusterf*ck of drivers that come with these things are just sloppy at best and typically have compatibility issues with games; who wants to have to run additional applications to just hear sound? Not me.
Actual 5.1 or 7.1 headsets with multiple drivers in each ear-cup are much more prone to failure, serious balance issues (requiring lots of tweaking to get balance restored), and muddy sound. (Which these are by the way, but keep in mind when you're in the sub-$100 price bracket that works out to something like $10-20 on each driver, lol.)
The final nail in the coffin is that a majority of games are not designed with extremely accurate positional audio in mind, and even fewer with actual multi-channel sound encoding and output.
he got neg'd, but there is a large degree of truth in what he said. If I cut out the piece about needing to buy a headphone amp, I don't see anything wrong with what he said.
good pair of stereo headphones cost $200, no thanks jeff, this will do me just fuine, ideal for battlefield 4, the price makes this probably the bargain of the year, you cannot question the build quality, and especially the price
good pair of stereo headphones cost $200, no thanks jeff, this will do me just fine, ideal for battlefield 4, the price makes this probably the bargain of the year, you cannot question the build quality, and especially the price
donkeydoc, I seem to be hearing your comment double ^ you might want to adjust your headphones and mic to get rid of that echo :P
Edit: or is this simply 'surround' sound? :)
Postage $9.95 to QLD not sure why you have (NSW ONLY)