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 Posted: Sun, 13th Sep 2009 23:19 Post subject: Looking for a good pear of Headphones |
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Gidday mates,
hope everything is well, so i have recently gotten back into using more of my computer and noticed my old headphones (phillips HS900) are an old peice of shit , they are waek have no bass and are falling appart anyway. i have had to put audio options in WMP Classic up to 250% so i can hear properly and that has made the treble all crackly and horrible.
ive been looking on the web trying to learn what i need in headphones as in impendence and sound pressure, i havnt really understoond what i need but im looking for headphones for mainly movies and tv on the pc and second of all for games and music.
i have an old Creative Audigy 2 ZS card which i hope is still alright and that isnt the cause of weak sound.
im willing to pay upto 125-150 bucks into them, so if anyone has some suggestions for me that would be great.
and if were already talking about it are there codecs or some other control panel i can download instead of what i got with my creative card to tweak the audio??
Thanks for listening and hope you can be of help.
Cheers mates!
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 00:07 Post subject: |
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if you don't need a microphone: sony v 700
or sennheiser hd25, alltime classic
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 00:19 Post subject: |
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they do look nice the barracuda, are there any requirements? will my Audigy 2 surrond on these headphones??
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 00:23 Post subject: |
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| Shayetet13 wrote: | | they do look nice the barracuda, are there any requirements? will my Audigy 2 surrond on these headphones?? |
im using a sound audigy zs2 and works fucking amazing. only requirment you need is a free usb spot to power the built in sub
when setting the surround on these headphones make sure you use 4.1 for the setting, I think the way they setup the speakers inside makes them not see that it's actually 5.1.
once you get em tho, turn on dead space or L4D, sooooo fucking amazing
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 00:26 Post subject: |
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Anything Sennheiser. 
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 00:26 Post subject: |
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ill deffinately look into these, do you know anything about the sennheisers? what models are good for movies and games ?
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 02:37 Post subject: |
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| Shayetet13 wrote: | | ill deffinately look into these, do you know anything about the sennheisers? what models are good for movies and games ? |
http://techgage.com/article/speedlink_medusa_51_and_sennheiser_hd555/3
Sennheiser is near the top of the line for headphones, you can't go wrong with them either.
People can scream gimmick and scam all they want, but surround sound headsets are pure fucking win.
I can only recommend the Razer Barracuda HP1's cause it's what I have and I absolutely love em. I haven't used anything else so my recommendations won't be anything worth mentioning. |
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 03:23 Post subject: |
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| Nui wrote: | I can say my Sennheiser HD 595 are pretty nice, too. When you got one, you should look into Dolby Headphone as a DSP for music, btw. It tries to move the soundstage infront of you and thus "out of your head". Maybe you like that.
I would like to hear those Surround headphones though  . Why do people think its hoax anyway? |
I really dunno, they claim any headset with 2 speakers can do the same as the headsets with multiple placed speakers in the headset can do.
Ya 2.1 headsets can hear bullets from left to right but not front and back and diagonals up and below.
One of the features of the boomer in L4D is you can't tell where he's coming from, his glurping sounds come from all over to confuse you, normal sound you wouldn't really think much of it, but with mine I start looking all over the place cause i can hear him in the bush over there, then he's on the roof over there, then all a sudden he's behind me blowing chunks on me. |
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 03:45 Post subject: |
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that's happened to me in timeshift.
I kept hearing a pinging sound behind me and was getting pissed off whoever the fuck was messing with the window behind me, heard it again and I opened up the window and started looking around, well I didn't pause the game then I heard the pinging again, it was coming from my rear speakers, the AI was shooting at me and was missing, and I didn't even see them on the screen as they were behind some bushes but never managed to hit.
was awesome lol
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 04:30 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Sep 2009 11:29 Post subject: |
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If you wanna do a fuckton of reading you can go here: head-fi.org/forums
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Sep 2009 19:19 Post subject: |
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im thinking a new sound card, just a cheapie 125$. are the new USB sound cards better then the old pci ones? anyone have some suggeustions for a good card to go with my headphones??
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Sep 2009 20:51 Post subject: |
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X-Fi Xtreme Gamer -> Cheap and you will get most perks of the larger X-Fi cards (like EAX, OpenAL acceleration, Crystalizer, etc).
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2009 03:57 Post subject: |
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bleh, never buy creative, worst fucking company around, shitty drivers, shitty fucking support.
Look at Auzentech (EAX isn't only creative, they lisence it out)
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2009 17:20 Post subject: |
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one thing I would recommend, if it's possible, find someplace where you can try them. Get headphones that don't fit your ears they'll end back up in a box in teh corner of your room...
and for fucking gods sakes, stay away from those stupid square headphones, who the fuck are they trying to market to with that crap, people have square ears?
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Sep 2009 17:25 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | Look at Auzentech (EAX isn't only creative, they lisence it out) |
Actually you need to look at Auzentech. Their high-end models, which cost hell of a lot more than an XtremeGamer (he wants something cheap), are all based on X-Fi (that's why they have EAX 3,4,5). The rest (cheaper) are not worth the money (and only have EAX 1,2 because they don't use creative chipset). |
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. That definitely is possible. But i think the same trick does not work for every person or for every sound and never as good as real speakers or 5.1 headphones.
