Showing posts with label gaming headset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaming headset. Show all posts

6/12/2012

Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 with 7.1 Surround Sound Review

Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930 with 7.1 Surround Sound
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First, off, I've only had this headset for a day. I can't really go into detail about sound quality, how good the surround sound is, etc. However, I feel like I need to clarify a couple of things.
There are two major issues that people have been complaining about with this headset: the "flimsy plastic" joints holding the ear cups on, and the lack of a graphic equalizer. Please disregard anyone who mentions either of these two "problems," because it is completely false.
If you look closely at the ear cup joints, yes, there is plastic there. However, if you pay attention, the plastic isn't actually the part that's moving. It's merely a covering for the actual joint. On the back of the box, under "Durability," it clearly states that the joints are made from an aircraft grade aluminum alloy. This is a very well made product guys, I get no sense that, if treated properly (take your game rage out on something that costs a bit less, children) it will ever break on me.
Now, I'm not quite sure why people are saying there's no graphic equalizer, and that they are limited to bass and treble adjustments. Directly below the bass/treble bars, there's a big button that looks like a graphic equalizer. If you click it, guess what happens. Yep, a 10 band EQ pops right up, complete with preamp volume adjustment. If you have this turned on, it grays out and overrides the bass/treble adjustments.
Now that I've cleared that up, I'll give my one day impressions on the product.
Super comfortable. I have a fairly large head, and yes, the headset does squeeze a little tighter than what you might be used to, but that's because the headband is made of metal and not cheap plastic. It's the squeeze of quality, learn to love it. It's not a bad thing at all, you just might not be used to it. After a few days of breaking it in, I doubt I'll even notice.
The sound quality seems fantastic so far. I'm still working on getting it to sound just right with my game of choice, TF2. With movies, music, tv shows, etc, it's just amazing. Crystal clear, rich, amazing sound.
I initially had problems with the mic, people in Team Fortress 2 were telling me that it was cutting out, and screwing up sound for everyone (if you've ever played the game, you know what I'm talking about). This was fixed by turning the mic gain way way down. I've been so used to mics that are super quiet, so I had windows set to max out and boost mic input, and maxed out mic input through the game as well. Turned the levels down quite a bit and presto, clear as a bell.
One thing I don't like, the mic level resets itself every time I unplug the headset (rather, the usb dongle) then plug it back up. It remembers every other setting, just not mic gain. I've solved this by setting one of the G keys to reduce mic gain, so if I ever launch a game and accidentally leave it set too high, I can easily fix it on the fly.
Speaking of the G keys, I was kind of disappointed that they work with ventrilo, but not teamspeak. No big deal though. Still, I was hoping to be able to sit on my porch and chill in our TS channel and be able to chat with people. (I have to go outside to smoke here...ahem >.>...you know what I mean.)
The wireless range and battery life really seem to be just as good as advertised, which was a very nice surprise. I can go anywhere in my house and still have completely clear audio. The majority of my front porch gets signal as well, and that's going between three walls. Last night I went in game with only a partial charge, the software said 7 hours of battery life left. I played a little over two hours, left game, and it said I still had five hours left. Good stuff.
I love this headset. Completely. After years of frustration over broken wires ruining headsets, I could not be happier with this product. If you've got a nice, functioning headset already, like a g35 or whatever, I couldn't justify telling you to purchase this. However, if you've got a cheap POS, or if you're in the market to buy a new headset because you rolled over your current pair's wires one too many times with your chair, I couldn't recommend this enough. I've never spent this much money on one before, I've always been in the 50-70 dollar range. Dropping 160 wasn't easy for me to do, money is tight these days. I don't regret the purchase at all.

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3/24/2012

Inland 87076 USB Powered Bass Vibration Headset Review

Inland 87076 USB Powered Bass Vibration Headset
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when i bought it the name was "Anubis Typhoon Bass Vibration Headset"
it's the exact same headset in every respect(just do a google search for the anubis)
on to the review:
It's really a quite excellent headset for all uses, initially i purchased it for voicechat in games, and the microphone is very good.
the sound is very clear, no problems with even very loud sounds being transmitted through the microphone, top quality microphone.
now on to the interesting bit, the sound.
i was surprised how powerful the bass boost is, without distorting the sound.
I'm not into music that requires a lot of bass, but it made a lot of games sound really good, and it gave a certain feel to it when thunder struck in the game and the headset literally shaked on your head ;)
if you turn the bass boost off the sound remains good, and the sound becomes more "natural" but it's still a very clean sound no matter how high you turn up the volume.
that leads on to the only negative comment i have on this headset, on my system the max volume weren't very loud, it was loud enough, but there was a few instances where i would have liked it to go a little higher...but in 99% of the cases it was fine.
last point on this headset is how comfortable it is to wear for extended periods of time: this headset fits most people really well, and despite the size it's really not heavy, the longest i wore it without taking it off(long raid in a game hehe)was a bit over 8 hours, and it didn't get uncomfortable at any point.
so thumbs up for this excellent headset from me.

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11/11/2011

Koss SB45 Multi-Media Headset Review

Koss SB45 Multi-Media Headset
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I'm a game developer and audio tech. I appreciate a headset with high-quality sound reproduction (especially bass!) and a sensitive noise-canceling electret condenser mic. It's confortable, durable, and even has a "no questions asked" lifetime warranty. It's THAT good.
This headset is extremely comfortable even after 6 hrs of solid usage; and the wide, heavily-padded headband equally accomodates my size 9 head down to my 2-yr old's head. The full-enclosure pads even filter-out ambient noise better than most passive noise-cancellation headphones...t'was a real treat! (Note that the pads ENCLOSE your year; they don't rest ON your ear!) The mic is extremely sensitive and is perfectly clear whether you have a bass or soprano voice. The side-boom mic is metal wrapped in soft rubber, allowing it to be bent into any position you want while providing a high degree of flexibility which is very handy if you tend to bump your mic around like I do; it also rotates up and entirely out of the way. It's got a thin 8' cord (mine's actually 9') with separate gold-plated mini plugs, both stereo. Oh, and did I mention that this headset folds up for convenient storage? Nice. Very nice.
Ok, so much for the physical features...
I own a half-dozen headsets and over a dozen headphones; most are made by Koss. (Take a gander at Koss' heritage some time...you'll be surprised!) This Koss SB45 headset has superb audio reproduction (18-20,000 Hz) and mic pickup (100-16,000Hz); for movies, music, games, and VoIP, this headset can't be beat. If you use Ventrilo or TeamSpeak a lot like I do, you'll especially appreciate the mic's abilities.
Note that this headset filters-out nearly all ambient sound. So if you want a headset that doesn't restrict room noise (TV, telephone, doorbell, people talking, etc), get something more like a Koss R70B that passes through more sound. If you want uninterrupted audio, then the SB45 is superb.


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8/04/2011

Koss SB-45 Communication Stereophones Review

Koss SB-45 Communication Stereophones
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I got my pair recently as an upgrade to the previous model by Koss(SB-40). This is a significant improvement for the microphone over the previous model, sound is roughly similar. I could not find a better headset for voice and sound. I tried blasting the headphones and recording via voice, it sounded as though there was no sound in the background. As for sound, sound quality is amazing for the price of the headset, their is almost a noise canceling effect on sound. Koss also has a lifetime warranty if anything happens to the set.

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