Surround Headphones - what the dealio??

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I've never really used headphones whilst console/PC gaming, but having moved into a shared house where I don't want to keep my housemates up with gunfire noise all night, I've switched to headphones. I can't believe I've never tried gaming with headphones before as it really does make the experience much more immersive, especially in FPSs when trying to determine the location of a shooter.

With this in mind, I was thinking about getting a semi-decent pair of wired or wireless headphones. I started looking into so-called 'surround' headphones and they don't seem to be that much more expensive.

Can anyone offer any info on these? Do they use more than just L&R speakers? Or do they just emulate surround sound? And if so, are they really worth it?

My other question, if they do in fact offer true 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound is, do they connect via standard headphone jack connector? Or do you need a console with an optical or other output capable of carrying a digital audio stream??

I'm clueless!! :)
 
Cool, thanks for the wealth of information guys! If any mods are reading, the first reply by Uriel might be sticky-worthy for this section.

My budget would probably be around £50 to £75 - I can't see myself spending more than that on a set of headphones! Interesting to find out about HRTF; I'm more of a console gamer though so anything which requires a sound card to accurately split audio streams probably isn't really of much interest to me... Almost seems like just a decent set of headphones would be better for me, and forget all the surround-sound malarky, unless anyone can suggest a good pair of gaming surround headphones for consoles??
 
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