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What's the best quality headset for playing games through you're head phones?


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I was curious about headsets a day or so ago but now that I'm using my turtle beach to play audio and voice chat through my head phones i can tell the sound quality is off a bit.

 

It's an older model, the x11 turtle beach.

 

I know there's like, trident and other stuff now, but for those of you who use gaming head phones for things like Halo 4, which has the best sound quality?

 

and is reasonably priced.

 

Or a better question, what headsets are significantly better than the x11? I'm hoping to get nice surround sound head phones that let me hear all the new sounds in Halo 4. I fear my turtle beach x11 will dampen the sound quality of the game.

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Well, with your X11's, there's only so much they can do. They're running sound via stereo, and not giving you the full effects of the game. You're talking reasonably priced, and you want something that will give you surround, so my question to you before anybody else can give you a good answer is, what is "reasonably priced" to you?

 

Less than $100? More than? What is your top limit on price for a pair of headphones?

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True, I should have given more insight.

 

Definitely less than $100, although I know it's best to save up for quality sometimes.

 

I mainly just want something to save up for between now and November 6th for Halo 4.

 

 

Let's say I prefer under $100 (assuming theres a good enough headset)

Here's what I'm mainly looking for

 

-Surround sound headphones

-Higher quality audio (you mentioned the x11 has stereo, im assuming recent head phones let you use hdmi for better audio now).

-Allows me to use it with my HDMI (my x11 turtle beach only lets you use hdmi if you have an adapter... $20? no thanks.)

-Reliable. Won't break within a month

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I have a Turtle Beach PX21 headset, but it's really uncomfortable for the ears and it breaks easily. I'm mostly playing on the PC, so I don't know what headset I should recommend. The standard Xbox headset always works for me though. =P

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I'd go for the Turtle Beach PX21, they are 80$ and are worth it. You can use them on PS3, Xbox, PC, and Mac so I'd say its pretty useful. Only thing you might not like is the cords but I still say its worth the buy. Customer service is good there was a malfunction with my headset after a year, after I contacted them I sent it in and got a new one :laughing:

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Here's a question lol i just sawed off part of the plastic for my audio cable so I could fit the hdmi in with the audio cable at the same time, allowing me to at least SEE the game in HD

 

Does this mean the audio is through HDMI though?

I have the hdmi plugged in from the xbox to the tv. The audio cable is plugged into the xbox which is only connected by the two red and white cables the headset comes with. Like I said, it works! but i cant tell if this is still stereo sound or if the xbox is actually sending the hdmi quality sound through the av cables.

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Here's a question lol i just sawed off part of the plastic for my audio cable so I could fit the hdmi in with the audio cable at the same time, allowing me to at least SEE the game in HD

 

Does this mean the audio is through HDMI though?

I have the hdmi plugged in from the xbox to the tv. The audio cable is plugged into the xbox which is only connected by the two red and white cables the headset comes with. Like I said, it works! but i cant tell if this is still stereo sound or if the xbox is actually sending the hdmi quality sound through the av cables.

 

Unfortunately that is only a stereo connection. Unless your HDMI is plugged into a Receiver, you're not going to get the full surround audio anyway, and you're just getting stereo through your TV speakers. With that being said, no headset that I'm currently aware of uses HDMI for audio (somebody please correct me, if I'm wrong). You'd need to use a digital optical cable (TOSlink) to get the true surround from it anyway.

 

That being said, the X12's are the same exact way as your X11's, the red/white audio jacks, so if you're looking for a surround experience, then they are not the way to go. $100 or less, let's see what I can find.... the Turtle Beach DXL1's are right at your $100 mark, but I don't have any personal experiences with them. I'd check out some reviews. The DX12's are a bit more than your target price, at $130. I currently can't find a Tritton headset within your price range with the features you want, sorry.

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Unfortunately that is only a stereo connection. Unless your HDMI is plugged into a Receiver, you're not going to get the full surround audio anyway, and you're just getting stereo through your TV speakers. With that being said, no headset that I'm currently aware of uses HDMI for audio (somebody please correct me, if I'm wrong). You'd need to use a digital optical cable (TOSlink) to get the true surround from it anyway.

 

That being said, the X12's are the same exact way as your X11's, the red/white audio jacks, so if you're looking for a surround experience, then they are not the way to go. $100 or less, let's see what I can find.... the Turtle Beach DXL1's are right at your $100 mark, but I don't have any personal experiences with them. I'd check out some reviews. The DX12's are a bit more than your target price, at $130. I currently can't find a Tritton headset within your price range with the features you want, sorry.

 

At least you were nice enough to look lol

 

I suppose I'd have to spend big to get something high quality. I might look into optic cables and see if I can find a cheap-ish headset that supports it.

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I use Turtle Beach Earforce X-11's, and these things are pretty boss. Good sound quality, and they are durable. They allow you to hear "directional" sound, so when you are playing a video game and someone is running up behind you you will hear it as behind you. Pretty nifty while playing an FPS that has back-smacks as a 1sk (1 smack kill lol)

 

They have volume control, so you can turn your television all the way down and just listen with your TB's. You can make it loud or quiet, and they function as a microphone as well. You can control both the chat and game volumes, so if you are playing a game that the sound isn't important and talking to someone, you can turn the game volume down without having to worry about not being able to hear your friend, and vice versa.

 

As far as durability goes, I've had my turtle beaches for about two years. While I take care of them, I'm not exactly obsessive with the care I give them.

 

Literally the only two downsides of this headset is the cost and the wires. However, they are cross compatible with all consoles (even the N64) and can work on your computer.

 

I use my Turtle Beaches to not only play video games, but to record voice-overs on gameplay videos as well.

 

Here's an example of a PC game recorded with a voice-over using the Turtle Beach X-11's

 

Here's an example of an X-Box 360 game recorded with a voice-over using the Turtle Beach X-11's (without gameplay audio)

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Im using a pair of wireless Afterglow ones, and while afterglow isnt usually a good product line, these one's are pretty boss, allowing you to change to three different "mode's"

 

One is just normal sound, the second is a more directional sound, and the third increases the bass...

 

Its pretty awesome xD

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