Unicorn Sought : Comfy Wired Gaming Headset For Not Much Money.

[Terminal_Boy]

My aging QPAD gaming headset has decided to give up the ghost despite my singing its praises, so I’m looking for a replacement.

Must be over the ear / closed cup style and comfy as a pair of well broken in slippers. Wired for 3.5mm connectors and of decent build quality although I do look after my gear.

The unicorn part is the budget: under £50.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Before giving up on it, have you looked inside? A loose connection might be an easy re-solder.

Not yet. Every other headphone I’ve owned over the last 40 years has failed by wiring/connector failures causing either the left of right channel to disappear.

The QPAD has decided it’s going to play both channels in my left and a garbled mess in my right regardless of where I set the balance slider. Soundcard is fine as I checked both headphone and speaker outputs using the desktop speakers and a pre-Lightning connector iphone headset.

It’s definitely the QPAD as it behaves the same when connected to my iPad.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I have had corsair before and they are generally great sound and often on sale, there's a H35 on pre order around that price. I haven't tried them myself though. Their refurbished stuff is good as well and lasted me years

Thanks, I‘ll check those out.