Hello all,
For my birthday I decided to treat myself and replace my old and faithful headphones (medusa 5.1) and soundcard (Audigy SE) for a few reasons, mainly because the left front speaker has gone on my medusa's (after 2 years) and the Audigy SE is older than my mother. So, after deciding that I wanted to move up a notch on the sound front I started eyeing up the Asus Xonas D2X and the Razer Megalodon 7.1 headset (more on these later) and then proceeded to order both.
The Xonar came a few weeks ago and it's beautiful, even through the medusa's, the sound quality was hugely improved. The megalodons however, are out of stock at OC. When (for the 3rd time) they told me they would "be only 7 - 14 days" - 30 days after initial payment was made - I gave up and started searching for replacements to purchase. Enter this forum!
Reading through here I have realised that not only are the megalodons USB (which even I know sucks), but that stereo can provide the surround sound that I so enjoy so long as you have an appropriate sound card. So I promptly cancelled the Megalodons and started searching for some stereo's.
What I'm looking for are a set of headphones that can provide the surround sound that I am used to with my medusa's 5.1. I don't care much for music or movie sound quality, as the medusa's (which you more versed memebers say are crap) served those two purposes flawlessly for me, all I need is gaming performance. Now, my medusa's were a massive improvement over my previous headphones - sennheiser PC155's - and since then I have always swore by surround sound headsets. However reading through these forums has sort of converted me, and I am now looking for a stereo set to compliment my Xonar.
After reading through the brilliant post by Dreadhead on May 28th, and subsequently the link: http://base.teamxbox.com/43202/ I came to a similar bottleneck. Do I get the DT880's, AD700's, the Senn 555's or Senn 595's... or simply something else
Surprisingly the Sennheiser 555's and 595's rated a poor 3 stars in his overview, but have many faithful followers on this forum. Compared to the AD700's 4 star and the DT880 5 star the Senn's seem to pale in comparison. With the 555's pricetag you can forgive it, but the 595's price is comprable to the AD700's, and with the DT880 up £80 you can also understand why that's ahead of the game.
Summery question (sorry for the long post): Of the Senn 555's, Senn 595's, AD700's & DT880's which is the most suiting for surround sound gaming with an Asus Xonar D2X soundcard, or is there someone out there with an Ace up their sleeve.
Looking forward to the responses.
For my birthday I decided to treat myself and replace my old and faithful headphones (medusa 5.1) and soundcard (Audigy SE) for a few reasons, mainly because the left front speaker has gone on my medusa's (after 2 years) and the Audigy SE is older than my mother. So, after deciding that I wanted to move up a notch on the sound front I started eyeing up the Asus Xonas D2X and the Razer Megalodon 7.1 headset (more on these later) and then proceeded to order both.
The Xonar came a few weeks ago and it's beautiful, even through the medusa's, the sound quality was hugely improved. The megalodons however, are out of stock at OC. When (for the 3rd time) they told me they would "be only 7 - 14 days" - 30 days after initial payment was made - I gave up and started searching for replacements to purchase. Enter this forum!
Reading through here I have realised that not only are the megalodons USB (which even I know sucks), but that stereo can provide the surround sound that I so enjoy so long as you have an appropriate sound card. So I promptly cancelled the Megalodons and started searching for some stereo's.
What I'm looking for are a set of headphones that can provide the surround sound that I am used to with my medusa's 5.1. I don't care much for music or movie sound quality, as the medusa's (which you more versed memebers say are crap) served those two purposes flawlessly for me, all I need is gaming performance. Now, my medusa's were a massive improvement over my previous headphones - sennheiser PC155's - and since then I have always swore by surround sound headsets. However reading through these forums has sort of converted me, and I am now looking for a stereo set to compliment my Xonar.
After reading through the brilliant post by Dreadhead on May 28th, and subsequently the link: http://base.teamxbox.com/43202/ I came to a similar bottleneck. Do I get the DT880's, AD700's, the Senn 555's or Senn 595's... or simply something else
Surprisingly the Sennheiser 555's and 595's rated a poor 3 stars in his overview, but have many faithful followers on this forum. Compared to the AD700's 4 star and the DT880 5 star the Senn's seem to pale in comparison. With the 555's pricetag you can forgive it, but the 595's price is comprable to the AD700's, and with the DT880 up £80 you can also understand why that's ahead of the game.
Summery question (sorry for the long post): Of the Senn 555's, Senn 595's, AD700's & DT880's which is the most suiting for surround sound gaming with an Asus Xonar D2X soundcard, or is there someone out there with an Ace up their sleeve.
Looking forward to the responses.
. It was a fair enough question.
