Headset recommendations for the 360

dannyjo22 said:
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.
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Your Going to be a Daddy \o/ - (I thought you said it would never happen)

Just a word of warning. I have headphones, and due to the in game banter I struggle to regulate the volume of my voice (I've only 3 settings mute, loud & louder than kreeeee)

I'm using the sharkoon x-tatic 5.1 headphones, they come with a connector (and mic) that plugs into your controller so you can have voice chat through the headphones.

They have a long cable which should reach across in most living rooms and Sharkoons customer service is top notch.


Edit: All us parents will have to start arranging "Old man gamers nights"
 
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The X1s have adjustable volume on in game chat I believe.

Jonny uses them and on COD4 when we are in the party he has the lobby on the actual game sounds (not voice comms) so he can hear what they are saying. Can be quite funny when he relays it back to us guys in the party
 
Im still confused on these, are they just a louder version of the official headset? Or do they grab the actual game sounds too? (shooting, music etc)?
 
orderoftheflame said:
Both. :)

I don't think you'd want to use a full headset for just voice chat, you wouldn't be able to hear anything. ;)
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How does it get the full game sound from the 360?, do you have to plug a short lead to the controller for headset function and then a long lead to the 360 for the rest of the sounds?
 
Marcos said:
Im still confused on these, are they just a louder version of the official headset? Or do they grab the actual game sounds too? (shooting, music etc)?
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They are an integration of the game audio channel AND the voice channel; if you get the right set. If you dont your are stuck to the voice output mixed with the game audio which makes chat very difficult. Basically you want an Xbox specific product that plugs into the controller.

The X1's for example connect to a USB power, ie back of the XBOX, then you can eaither plug the audio plug direct to the headphone socket or use into the red and white RCA cable to 3.5mm jack adaptor that allows in my case the VGA cable to connect from the Xbox to both the headset and the TV. Then there is a puck thats about 1 foot on the wire from the headset, the controller plugs into that unit and its where you control audio volume and mute, with the controller puck having the voice channel volume. Say voice options to 'both' and you can hear your own party and the other players in game chat. For example being dead on S&D on COD when you are in a party is rather useful ;)

X1's are nice, dunno if X3's would annoy me with the battery issue. Although I think they may have slightly better sound and you can hear you own voice back through the set which is probably pretty useful for regulating your own volume. Wireless on them is IR rather than Radio AFAIK aswell.
 
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Damn you, Danny, you've got me thinking about spending more money :p

I want something that will plug into my amp like any other set of headphones, but with the added xbox headset functionality. I'd though the X1's fit the bill, but they seem to only take a line input. Half tempted by the X4's though :D

Congrats on the impending fatherhood :)
 
Jonnycoupe said:
They are an integration of the game audio channel AND the voice channel; if you get the right set. If you dont your are stuck to the voice output mixed with the game audio which makes chat very difficult. Basically you want an Xbox specific product that plugs into the controller.

The X1's for example connect to a USB power, ie back of the XBOX, then you can eaither plug the audio plug direct to the headphone socket or use into the red and white RCA cable to 3.5mm jack adaptor that allows in my case the VGA cable to connect from the Xbox to both the headset and the TV. Then there is a puck thats about 1 foot on the wire from the headset, the controller plugs into that unit and its where you control audio volume and mute, with the controller puck having the voice channel volume. Say voice options to 'both' and you can hear your own party and the other players in game chat. For example being dead on S&D on COD when you are in a party is rather useful ;)

X1's are nice, dunno if X3's would annoy me with the battery issue. Although I think they may have slightly better sound and you can hear you own voice back through the set which is probably pretty useful for regulating your own volume. Wireless on them is IR rather than Radio AFAIK aswell.
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Thanks for that. I don't think the X1's will do me then because when I play guitar I'm a good 8-10 foot from my screen.

Neither the x3's or 4's are out til the new year here anyway.
 
They seem to be in at an online retalier, or at least it doesnt say pre order, been thinking about getting the X4 for myself but dont have the cash till next week, £129.99.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Thanks for that. I don't think the X1's will do me then because when I play guitar I'm a good 8-10 foot from my screen.

Neither the x3's or 4's are out til the new year here anyway.
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The cable is nigh on 20 foot. I can nearly get in my kitchen wearing mine.

The X4' s were due in about 2 weeks after I bought my X1's and on the UK distributer site you can see loads of reviews from UK reviewers. Any delays in orders and ETA onsite are due to supply and demand rather than product release.
 
Dont want to hijack the thread, letting my 1 die as someone mentioned i should post here, ive also been looking at various headphone setups, was intrested in the X4s but its getting a so-so rating, IR is a bit iffy, maybe some hissing, sound quality isnt brilliant, good but not brilliant. So i checked the cheaper Sharkoons X-tactic II, wired headphones but again slighly iffy reviews, so then i just did a general google search for ps3/xbox 360 headphones and found these

Tritton AXPRO Gaming Headset
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Now these are supposed to work with anything and do both voice for xbox 360 and ps3 and can be used for PC, dvd players etc etc.
However a few cons
mic maybe poorly positioned/not long enough
Only 1 retalier i can find in the UK and price is dearer than the X4s £149.99 +£7 for p&p so £156.99
And it has 2 power cables/ac adaptors 1 for the box and 1 for the headphones :eek:
 
I was under the impression the trittons are pretty much the sharktoons anyway? Although that may be a lower spec as where they were similar products they were without voice and around £80. So I guess those Trittons are are newer ones.

I might upgrade to 5.1's at some point, as they are still cheaper than a decent 5.1 system and I dont think i'd ever really get chance to game on a system as most of it is post 10pm.
 
Thought I would revive this thread as it's not long before the Ear Force X4 will be in stock.

I'm still undecided on getting them at the moment.
 
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