Headset recommendations for the 360

dannyjo22 · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:47

With the rapidly accelerating approach of my house being invaded by a wallet emptying bag of poo and puke, I'm in the market for a decent set of gaming headphones purely for the 360.

I will mainly be using them for late night rock band sessions, regular late night gaming will be fine through speakers. I whack my speakers up for rockband but obviously can't do that when a baby comes along at 11 at night

I don't mind them being wired and upto £150 for a decent set, the Mrs is buying so the budget is not so tight

I saw these....

Ear force X4 at about £120. Dolby surround. Does surround really work in these types of earphones? Or just spend the £60-70 on a stereo set?

Also that wireless equipment I take it wont even be used for use on the 360 because it will plug straight into the guitar?

Any other recommendations for decent well made equipment? I'm not that keen on something I have to bodge up.

Faded · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:54

I know Jonny speaks very highly of the X1's.
I'm looking to pick up a pair of the X3's myself at christmas.

orderoftheflame · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:54

I bought a set of Astro A40s recently. Probably slightly above your budget after shipping, but I'll stick them in anyway.

Dolby 5.1 Surround through a high quality stereo set using Dolby headphone, work seamlessly as an Xbox Live headset as well (designed as an Xbox headset, with everything all included).

I'm well chuffed with mine.

Best buy for my Xbox of all the stuff I've got.

I'd highly suggest checking the site, and some of the 3rd party reviews out.

http://www.astrogaming.com/products/detail/3/A40_Audio_System/

disco Stu · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:56

Got the X3's here - Awesome

Zico · 6 Dec 2008 at 21:33

Nice headphones.

Will Lucky · 6 Dec 2008 at 22:42

I would personally just stick with the Wireless one, excellent quality, But then again I didn't have a £150 budget on headphones

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Memphis · 6 Dec 2008 at 22:45

Will Lucky said:
I would personally just stick with the Wireless one, excellent quality, But then again I didn't have a £150 budget on headphones.

Given you get no game audio through the 360 headsets, I imagine he's already ruled that option out.

Marcos · 7 Dec 2008 at 00:33

How does this work?

I thought the headset was only good for ingame chat?

When you use one of these, does the xbox send all of the ingame sound wireless to the controller? :confused:

RoachycaL · 7 Dec 2008 at 00:37

So these phones count as a 360 headset? As a mate of mine got some fancy 360 headset which comes with a mic and adaptor for the 360 and he has to set the 360's microphone output to "speakers" and voices appear very quiet compared to everything else!

McManicMan · 7 Dec 2008 at 08:06

i wouldn't bother, soon as your baby is born you will not have time to play even if you think you will. Then there is your RB set, that'll have to go because it will make to much noise - even if again you think it won't it will as far as your Mrs is concerned. Then there will be the baby blues and your wife moaning at you that your sppending to much time on your console and not with your family. Follow this up when the nipper can walk and he's putting toast in the dvd tray or banging his bottle on your gaming equipment and leaving teeth marks in the dvds.

Larkspeed · 7 Dec 2008 at 08:35

McManicMan said:
i wouldn't bother, soon as your baby is born you will not have time to play even if you think you will. Then there is your RB set, that'll have to go because it will make to much noise - even if again you think it won't it will as far as your Mrs is concerned. Then there will be the baby blues and your wife moaning at you that your sppending to much time on your console and not with your family. Follow this up when the nipper can walk and he's putting toast in the dvd tray or banging his bottle on your gaming equipment and leaving teeth marks in the dvds.

LOL I would not say that.

Our little angel is 10 months old now and I have never had to stop playing Rockband.

I use headphones as he is planning so I can crank it up but then I have always done that since my wife does not like it as loud when she is playing.

I just have Sony wireless ones that I picked up off ebay, actually I misread the auction when I bought them and ended up getting a real killer deal as I won the auction at 19 Euro and it was for 2 full sets.

and if all else fails just get the baby to play along

TheBrooder · 7 Dec 2008 at 08:49

I have the x1's and they're decent

Tetsu · 7 Dec 2008 at 09:01

McManicMan said:
i wouldn't bother, soon as your baby is born you will not have time to play even if you think you will. Then there is your RB set, that'll have to go because it will make to much noise - even if again you think it won't it will as far as your Mrs is concerned. Then there will be the baby blues and your wife moaning at you that your sppending to much time on your console and not with your family. Follow this up when the nipper can walk and he's putting toast in the dvd tray or banging his bottle on your gaming equipment and leaving teeth marks in the dvds.

I havent had any of those problems myself. I love my gaming time more then ever at the moment.

dannyjo22 · 7 Dec 2008 at 10:19

McManicMan said:
i wouldn't bother, soon as your baby is born you will not have time to play even if you think you will. Then there is your RB set, that'll have to go because it will make to much noise - even if again you think it won't it will as far as your Mrs is concerned. Then there will be the baby blues and your wife moaning at you that your sppending to much time on your console and not with your family. Follow this up when the nipper can walk and he's putting toast in the dvd tray or banging his bottle on your gaming equipment and leaving teeth marks in the dvds.

I work 4 months a year. I have enough time for gaming regardless of children. I have my own gaming room which will be key locked any time i'm not in it. I rarely play the drums it's for guitar my main gameplay that I want head phones.

Thanks for the recommendations, I will look into those astro's as well. Does 5.1 actually work well in headphones?

Larkspeed · 7 Dec 2008 at 10:33

dannyjo22 said:
Does 5.1 actually work well in headphones?

Yes very well.

it does not matter the spacing so long as the speakers are in front of and behind the center of your ears.

Your brain figures out the rest

orderoftheflame · 7 Dec 2008 at 11:01

dannyjo22 said:
I work 4 months a year. I have enough time for gaming regardless of children. I have my own gaming room which will be key locked any time i'm not in it. I rarely play the drums it's for guitar my main gameplay that I want head phones.

Thanks for the recommendations, I will look into those astro's as well. Does 5.1 actually work well in headphones?

Fantasticaly well with the Astro's.

I really can't fault them.

Zico · 7 Dec 2008 at 14:58

The Astro's are $310 excluding customs charges :eek:

orderoftheflame · 7 Dec 2008 at 15:03

Zico said:
The Astro's are $310 excluding customs charges

Yeah, I got mine when the pound was stronger, as I said they're not cheap.

Well worth every penny so far though.

Zico · 7 Dec 2008 at 15:10

At the current rate the Astro's are twice the price of the Ear Force X4's.

dannyjo22 · 7 Dec 2008 at 15:11

Yeah I've read a lot of good stuff about those astro's. If I can hold off until june when my relatives visit from the states I will get them. If not I think I might get those X4's.