Zalman ZM-RS6F+M or Medusa 8790?

[Angilion]

Left/right don't sound 'front' really, they're more like pure left/right than front left/front right. Rear left and rear right should sound like they're slightly more behind though. It's the mono centre channel that's fed to the front 2 speakers.

If I had known that before, I wouldn't have bought them. I expected a rough replca of 5.1, not a different setup. Slight front and slightly rear would have been OK, but lacking front entirely results in a distorted "image", which makes sounds in the game appear to be coming from the wrong place.

So the Medusa are really an over-priced set of fairly decent stereo headphones that have a useless non-standard positioning for extra speakers.

 

[fish99]

So the Medusa are really an over-priced set of fairly decent stereo headphones that have a useless non-standard positioning for extra speakers.

More or less. I wouldn't say the positonal sound is useless, but it's not great. You can't really do much better with headphones though, you can't have speakers totally in front of you to do the centre channel, so it has to use the foremost of the 6 speakers as the centre. It might have been better if they'd made them 4.1 headphones and forgot about the centre channel, then at least the speakers could have been in the four sound corners. That wouldn't have worked for DVDs though.

Still check those connection are right though. Personally I thought the positonal sound was good enough to give you a rough idea where enemies where.

 

[Rojin]

If I had known that before, I wouldn't have bought them. I expected a rough replca of 5.1, not a different setup. Slight front and slightly rear would have been OK, but lacking front entirely results in a distorted "image", which makes sounds in the game appear to be coming from the wrong place.

So the Medusa are really an over-priced set of fairly decent stereo headphones that have a useless non-standard positioning for extra speakers.

Well I'm not sure about the new sets as I have one of the originals, but on the inline remote just set the rear volume to slightly less than the fronts. Experiment with this and you do get pretty good sound separation (albeit in a roundabout way). When I first got them I wasn't exactly overwhelmed, but after a bit of fiddling I find them great for gaming.