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I always love the audiophiles popping up. Some of us simply don't care about that. I want a HEADSET, not HEADPHONES.
auzentech forte w/ cmss-3d + ad-700s > any 5.1 headset gimmick.
Ooch! What an awful review. The product is not as bad as stated. Yes, I too could not believe how bad the sound was when I first place them on my head. But I followed the directions and turned "OFF" all sound enhancements and that made the world of difference. I then turned on the EQ and turned down the high end frequencies. I also own the Medusa 5.1 and just last week received the Psyko 5.1s. The Medusa is more versatile and the better for music. But for directional sound, Psyko has it beat. By the way, I too am using a Creative Labs’ X-Fi Titanium Platinum sound card. Just because I use a sound equalizer, does that make my Bose 901s bad speakers? Hell NO! The same holds true for these Psyko 5.1s. Just an awful reviewer with limited imagination......shameful!
the review said:Movies are almost as bad with the Psyko headset as music was. I used I am Legend and Terminator 4: Rise of the Machines on Blu-Ray for testing.
As soon as Christian Bale entered his first scene in T4, I knew what struck me wrong: his voice; not the fake one from "The Dark Knight," but his speaking voice in general.
Ooch! What an awful review. I then turned on the EQ and turned down the high end frequencies. I also own the Medusa 5.1 and just last week received the Psyko 5.1s. The Medusa is more versatile and the better for music. But for directional sound, Psyko has it beat. !
I always love the audiophiles popping up. Some of us simply don't care about that. I want a HEADSET, not HEADPHONES.
I've owned the following:
Razer Barracuda (Full 5.1) ($100-130)
Razer Carcharias (Stereo) ($80)
Logitech G35 (Virtual 7.1) ($100-130)
Steel Series 5HV2 (Stereo) ($75-100)
Steel Series Siberia (music at work) ($20 woot)
A variety of lower end Logitech (Stereo)
Plantronics GameCon 777 (Virtual 5.1) ($130)
I game about 1-3 hours a day (I don't sleep) and with that amount of use, I expect them to not last forever..
Anyways, I want a wireless set. Now if they find a really good set of wired ones that makes the WoW ones sound like poop, I'd put up with wired.
beyerdynamic mmx300
That's too bad these headphones suck, I was hoping for something better than my trusty Tritton Axpro True 5.1's but it seems they are still the king of 5.1 headphones. Positioning doesn't mean much if the sound is garbage. I used these headphones for movies and music as much as gaming and they are excellent on all counts.
Hey man, by the world's account, I'm one of those "fools" who wasted his money on these Psyko's. They don't suck, and I'm not regurgitating something I've read. I own them and use them as my primary gaming headset.
I'm not saying they're the best in the world, I haven't personally tested every set of headphones. I'll say this, they have replaced my Medusa 5.1 which isn't a bad set themselves. Music wise, I've heard better and I've heard worse. Sound positioning is where they really excel, IMO.
$300 is a lot of money, but if you can afford them, don't cross them off your list until you get a chance to try them for yourself. Fact is, you shouldn't do anything unless you have a chance to see for yourself.
Aren't those just beyerdynamic dt 770's?
100 bucks is pretty steep for a mic. I dunno, I just picked up a nice 15 dollar usb mic. It's a good foot away from me and picks up my speech just fine.
edit: I see now they also come with a usb sound card.
I If you think you can preserve audio fidelity when you're pumping the sound through sets of tiny tubes (which have multiple bends to boot) then I have a bridge to sell you.
i certainly wouldn't buy them, but the dude wants a fuckin headset because he can't be bothered to use a separate mic :/
I'd be glad to discuss further the technical side of this technology and the psychoacoustics of how people perceive sound direction. While the technology is unique and interesting, the bottom line is that we have many gaming customers that are satisfied and excited about the technology. We are investigating if there was a quality problem with the sets where people say they sound bad. We are a start-up company introducing a completely new technology and are working to continually improve. We value the feedback from everyone that has Psyko headsets. Of course we want to hear from both those that love them and those where there is a problem. The easiest way to discuss this directly with us is at the Psyko info email address.
We understand that there are those that are skeptical of this technology and those that are disappointed in other surround sound headphone technologies. For those that have not tested Psykos we understand that the best way to judge for yourself is to test them yourself, so we offer our 15-day money back guarantee to give you that opportunity. These are gaming headphones that give you instant awareness of the direction of every sound and that can give you a technical edge in the game, particularly FPS PC games. That is the focus for this product.
By the way, Waveguide is a scientific term used in acoustics and electromagnetics. A common example of a waveguide is fibre optic cable to guide light waves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide The concept is very simple, and very powerful.
Fair play for coming onto the board to discuss these headphones. I would be very excited about trying them out. Personally I haven't found any stereo headphones that are as good as the medusa 5.1 headsets for positional audio in my favorite FPS counterstrike source. And I have tried a lot of headphones, with and without headphone amps and tried them with dolby headphone, cmss3d and DX2. I just know my KDR (kill to death ratio) is much higher with the medusa's. I make several kills based on sound alone with my medusa's.
I made the switch last year to good stereo headphones based on all the advice here. It was all good advice, they did sound much better and I got good positional audio, but, here is the thing, not once have I ever been accused of wall hacking with the stereo headphones, no matter what technology I use use. But, with the medusa's on I used to get accused of hacking alot.
For me that sums it up really, 5.1 headphones don't sound as good, but, for the games I play positional accuracy is so much more important.
Playing music through a tube "waveguide" will make it sound crap. try listening through a paper towel tube and see what i mean No matter how much DSP power you have you can not "pre crapify" sound so playing it through a tube will sound ok. resonance is added, and those resonances add new peaks and ringing at certain frequencies which will always be the same no matter what sound passes through.
Also those headphones look really cheap. you would think they could do a bit better than a bit of toy plastic for that much money.
I hate to bring up Bose again, but they're making zillions using that waveguide technique.
I hate to bring up Bose again, but they're making zillions using that waveguide technique.
Apple makes zillions off iPods and iTunes. Doesn't change that the iPod is, at best, derivative... and iTunes itself is a bloated piece of crap.
Never underestimate the power of marketing and the gullibility of customers.
Please, don't talk to me about qulibility. This entire industry trumps "Plug & Play", yet there's not one serious computer gamer in this forum that hasn't spent hours, hours and more hours trying to get his\her brand new "Plug & Play" Gizmo to play nice with his working computer. Not one person here would tolerate having to spend hours & hours, after the purchase, making the TV, refrigerator or other household applience work. Thus, the "Gamer" is the most GUlLiBLE of all consumers. Please, leave gullibility out of the conversation when comparing one gamer to another. We're all gullible; if we were to hold this industry to the standards that we demand from other manufacturers of consumer products, ATI, nVidia would lead the pack of businesses gone sour.
If you would actually compare the two, you would see that the two are physically pretty different in purpose. The Psyko apparently has small tubes all the sound is played through, in order to physically shift the apparent source of the sound from one place to another. (Also connects the two ears, timing differences, etc, etc, which is all besides the point.)
The Bose waveguide system has speakers with their main faces exposed to open air on the front of the system like normal speakers. Their waveguide thing is a method of porting the enclosure.
http://en.red-dot.org/fileadmin/bilder/Presse/Material_pd_2008/Waveguide_inside-view.jpg
You can't really compare the two.