Headsets

Well guys, just thought I'd put up a few topics for peripherals. Your thoughts on things you use or used to use.

This one, as the subject says this one is about headsets.

I've long been asking people how the hell they manage to break their headsets.

I've dropped it, sat on it, taken it to LANs and finally the one thing that breaks it is lying in bed!
Apparently all the nights of lying down watching movies and stuff has mounted up and the plastic adjustment band has snapped. I tried gluing it back together, but that only really holds until the next time i get heavy headed and lie down a bit too quick lol.

So that's my Speedlink Medusas' gone and i need a new pair.
Had a quick scout round and i'm looking at getting the Roccat Kave

Basically, I don't want to go back to not having 5.1 wrapped round my head, and almost all of the Surround sound headsets seem to be going USB all of a sudden. Which I tried, The 1st Medusa i got was USB. I loved it but the fact that all my sound was being pumped through the crappy little in line sound card and it made my PC BSOD meant i had to swap it for the version with all the 3.5mm jacks.

The Roccat looks very good, I'm using other stuff from them at the moment and none of it's let me down so far.

So whats everyone else got/want?

Ive gone through many headsets in the past few years with Creative fatality to my mums skype headset but im on a steelseries 5Hv2 at the moment and i am loving it, easily the best headset ive ever had

Studio headphones. The only thing studio headphones care about is good sound and ergonomic design so you can wear them for hours on end. A lot of gaming headsets have horrible, horrible sound quality, with massive unwanted equalization filters.

I use the AKG K141. interchangeable small and large jack is a massive plus, too.

Ah, you sound like a man who knows what he's on about.

What do you use for a mic? Standard desktop one?

Don't suppose you know of anything that meets my requirements?

I am using a Sennheiser PC350 since 1 year now and i love it. With a good soundcard you can easily hear people. The only problem is the Stereo sound. I have problems to tell if a step is in front or behind me

<strong>Mr Pig wrote:</strong>

What do you use for a mic? Standard desktop one?

Ah. Thing is, I don't do recording (at least not at home, nowhere in my house has any good acoustic quality unless I decide to go out and buy lots of carpets to hang from the walls). For that reason I just bought the cheapest microphone around, since neither teamspeak and ventrilo have anywhere near good enough quality for a good microphone to matter much (and vent + TS is the only thing I use my microphone for).

But I do have enough experience with microphones to know that there are a LOT of really bad ones out there, and - despite what she said - size doesn't matter. Those clip-on microphones you see people on TV use? Surprisingly often much better than your average stage microphone.

I suggest you go to a store that sells sound/music equipment exclusively (not a PC hardware shop), as the people who work at those places are more often than not very interested and experienced in their field. You'll occasionally run into a douche that tries to sell you everything in the shop, but most people would rather sell what suits your specific needs, and are more than happy to help you find exactly that.

Happy hunting!