Unicorn Sought : Comfy Wired Gaming Headset For Not Much Money.

[Terminal_Boy]

My aging QPAD gaming headset has decided to give up the ghost despite my singing its praises, so I’m looking for a replacement.

Must be over the ear / closed cup style and comfy as a pair of well broken in slippers. Wired for 3.5mm connectors and of decent build quality although I do look after my gear.

The unicorn part is the budget: under £50.

 

[Quartz]

My aging QPAD gaming headset has decided to give up the ghost despite my singing its praises, so I’m looking for a replacement.

Before giving up on it, have you looked inside? A loose connection might be an easy re-solder.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Before giving up on it, have you looked inside? A loose connection might be an easy re-solder.

Not yet. Every other headphone I’ve owned over the last 40 years has failed by wiring/connector failures causing either the left of right channel to disappear.

The QPAD has decided it’s going to play both channels in my left and a garbled mess in my right regardless of where I set the balance slider. Soundcard is fine as I checked both headphone and speaker outputs using the desktop speakers and a pre-Lightning connector iphone headset.

It’s definitely the QPAD as it behaves the same when connected to my iPad.

 

[sgavan]

I have had corsair before and they are generally great sound and often on sale, there's a H35 on pre order around that price. I haven't tried them myself though. Their refurbished stuff is good as well and lasted me years

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I have had corsair before and they are generally great sound and often on sale, there's a H35 on pre order around that price. I haven't tried them myself though. Their refurbished stuff is good as well and lasted me years

Thanks, I‘ll check those out.

 

[Flor_Fina]

Some of the HyperX stuff on amazon is in that price range. Never used them though, so no idea on comfort level.

Ah you're in my neck of the woods. Personally I'd be more inclined to go for a proper headphone brand like AKG and grab these https://www.amazon.fr/AKG-K72-Casqu...ronics&sprefix=akg+550,electronics,76&sr=1-77

 

[Mercutio]

I'm going to suggest hyperX too. The cloud II is, I believe a 3.5MM with a USB soundcard in the box (might want to check though). The cloud 1 is just the 3.5mm and they're otherwise largely the same thing.
That particular headphone is based on a VERY low end, step 0.1 of 10 into audiophile headphone (Takstar Pro 80). It'll be pretty damn comfy and sound nice. They're exactly £50 from a quick google.

user review of the takstars over on head-fi:https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/takstar-pro-80.14845/
The cloud/cloud 2 (but NOT the other "cloud" like stinger, etc) are basically the same thing with a mic.