Also, any decent earphones that have a manual volume control so I can change the volume on the fly? I hate having to control volume through windows or the software.
There's good reason why any decent or especially good headphones tend to avoid having those volume controls:
Any resistance between voltage output and headphone driver acts like output impedance lowering damping factor.
And big volume decrease using such control just rapes damping factor starting to eat accuracy and punch of bass and overal sound quality.
Once tried such series resistor/inline volume controller with HD595 Sennheiser...
Using mouse to look for volume control of Windows or even worser going to game's menu sure sucks.
But that's why you should looks for dedicated separate volume control in keyboards...
Instead of bling bling RGB garbage and PR BS product names for fools used to sell feature lacking keyboards at excessive price.
interested to see what reasonably priced £50-ish alternatives are out there.
And that 1080 Ti was reasonably priced?
Despite of it becoming second tier product in couple years and obsolete in five years...
Not sure about price level in UK but very good soundstage for closed can of that price range Creative Aurvana Live (made by Fostex and same model as in some Denons) should be available for roughly that price.
Then of course there are Superluxes.
I'm sure there's 1000 technical reasons why these headsets suck etc etc, but I'd be surprised if anyone who's actually used a set would have much negative to say.
Do you take car advices only from drivers of some Trabant or Wartburg?
Because this describes average western consumer perfectly:
"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
-Bertrand Russell
And marketing is all about bad grounds.
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
― H.G. Wells
And there's no need for testing when frequency response tells that pretty much all but HyperX Cloud and Plantronics are from bad to total garbage.
https://uk.hardware.info/reviews/60...gher-quality-testresults---frequency-response
Though actually had chance to test that Turd Beach Z60 years before finding that:
It's single digit price sticker worthy garbage making ~30€ Superlux HD-330 feel like top quality headphone.
Didn't even bother comparing to Byerdynamic DT990 or Sennheiser HD595.
As car analogy it would be like comparing Lada/Trabant/Wartburg to some Jaguar or Rolls-Royce.