Planars for gaming?

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Hey all, looking for new phones. Mainly for fps gaming and music/movies 2nd.

Would like a set of planars and budget is around the 400 mark. I looked into the audeze mobius, but don't want wireless phones tbh. Any advice appreciated.
 
Hey guys thanks for replies, I use a schit stack to drive denon ah d600's, but fancied something a bit more upmarket. I also use a mod mic but it wouldn't bother me if the phones had an in built mic.

I was looking at hifimans, but assumed the 400i's, being the budget version. Would be just that budget and maybe able to get more for the money.

Another note is they need to be closed back, does anybody have the 400i's that could give honest advice on them, thanks.
 
Radox-0 said:
Other's have given good advice. however, you are aware the he400i are open back, not closed back, but first sentence in last paragraph says they must be closed back?
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Yea that's why I asked on an opinion as some open headphones can isolate the sound more than others.
 
melmac said:
Totally understandable. But, I think you should go in a different direction because, apart from the Mobius/Hyperx, I don't know of any closed back planar headphones that are good for gaming. What I mean by that is, if gaming is your priority then there are better options for your budget that aren't planars.
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Hi, I just assumed planars where the way to go, as everyone raves how good the sound quality is. Not much of an audiophile,do you have any suggestions. Thanks.
 
Is positional audio not just a gimmick, as in 5.1/7.1. Decent quality phones would prob be more what I'm looking for, as I am currently using half decent stereo phones, just fancied an upgrade to something newer. Thanks.
 
Shooters mainly, escape from tarkov has gripped me at the moment, but apex was a game I played for 6 months straight. I mean I'd be open to open back phones, but would they clash with an open mic during discord chat with friends ( the reason I want closed).

I'm a bass head so decent bass would be nice.

I do get quite competitive, but nothing serious. I'll check the shure's out, and thanks for the replies guys.
 
EsaT said:
What "sounds" good has little to do with any accuracy of signal's reproduction.

Human hearing is really bad as any kind absolute measuring instrument and what little is heard consciously is further mutilated by expectations and various psychological (or should we say psychopathic) biases.
For example only sound tubes have is distortion of signal and you may have noticed how many people call their sound as good.
In some blind tests tube worshippers have been induced to hear tube sound even when listening sound through normal low distortion semiconductors just by hinting about tubes...
Also you may have noticed how HD600-serie Sennheisers and especially HD650 are called good with their "warm" sound.
While that warm sound actually means inaccurate frequency response with emphasis on lower end of frequency spectrum and reproduction starting to get weaker at upper mids and dropping further the more you go into treble.
Something you down't want if you want to pick gaming environment apart from sounds.

Stereo content like music simply doesn't care much any about accuracy of reproduction.
Only thing our hearing is good at analyzing reliably is binaural cues, which are used by brain to "decode"/process sound source locations.
You'll hear it very fast when those aren't reproduced accurately enough.

I had once chance to test one Turtle (more like turd) Beach gaming headset.
Obviously expectations were really low, but starting listening from music actually gave better than expected result with kinda "front row" agressive feel in say rock.
Switching to binaural sound gaming clips was like running to wall.
With immersion best described as "head in bucket under water" with no real sense of distance and especially separation.
Everything sounded like coming from next to ear, with some sounds just being more muffled than others and of course directionality wasn't good.
In comparison Superlux HD330 bought for 30€ sounded like top level headphone with binaural sound.
I didn't even consider wasting time in testing against audio maker headphones I had that time...


Darn it's annoying surf web even with UPS for PC because of short power cuts from continuing maintenance work from yesterday's snow storm keep cutting connection.
(had 13 hour blackout from ~19PM yesterday)
Well, at least there's been only couple cuts in last 15 minutes...
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Wow thanks for the in depth post, I think an open set is the way forward and with a neutral signature?

Any recommendations come to mind, somebody mentioned akj/g, and the monoprice m1070. The only I don't want is something similar to what I have Denons ah d600, I can use these for music and the ones I purchase for gaming.

Thanks for replies guys.
 
Thanks for taking the time to write these replies guys, I think I'm gonna go for a set of beyer amirons. I was contemplating the 990's or the 1990's but the cabling connecting the pads to the headband is kind of putting me off those models. Safe rather than sorry kind of thing.
 
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