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Recommendation: Surround sound headphones with mic for £50


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I have a bunch of sites I regularly visit for tech news, techpowerup being one of them, the thing they do different is daily hardware snippets. This then reminded me I have always wanted a good set of surround headphones, and then I thought I would like a mic on there as well.

 

As this is a nice to have item, I'm not spending more on them that I would on a sound card, so with that in mind is it possible to get what I'm after for the budget I have? and if so what do people recommend.?

 

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As far as i read, if your sound card supports virtual surround headphone output, there's no point in getting surround headphones. Either you will end up with headphones with an inferior sound chip which does the surround, or the hardware surround, e.g. 3 speakers in each of the earphones, will be inferior to what you get with a virtual surround function. So i'd recommend getting a normal good quality stereo headset, and use the surround function of your sound card, if any, or buy one which has a decent surround simulation.

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So i'd recommend getting a normal good quality stereo headset, and use the surround function of your sound card, if any, or buy one which has a decent surround simulation.

 

+1 B) I'm using a Beyerdynamics DT990 Pro with Soundblaster Z and I'm very satisfied. Before I used the X-FI Xtreme Gamer with the same good results. But this card didn't provide enough amp for the headphones.

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Don't buy a ready gaming headset. Invest some money in a nice sound card, even less on a separate mic and the most for really nice headphones.

 

I am using this soundcard, that mic and these headphones. But it won't work with TDM somehow since it doesn't recognize software controlled 7.1 it seems.

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