dogbyte_13
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I have to say im impressed with the HS1 headest(thanks HardOCP for the free shizz). The audio is very clean and the virtual 7.1 is a very nice feature.
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Sigh, after corsair went to all that work designing a set of cans with (relatively) flat frequency response (or so they claim), this is what you do:
My apologies for preaching.
I absolutely disagree that Dolby Headphone with music is not for audio purists.
Dolby Headphone is a speaker and environment simulator. If you use it to simulate stereo speakers (and the DH HRTF suits you) you are usually listening closer to how the recording engineer / producer intended. Most music is intended for stereo speakers and using front L & R only, that's what you hear with Dolby Headphone. Well - with DH1 anyway, which is rather like using nearfield monitors. I'm less keen on DH2 and DH3 for music as I find the acoustic reflections sound atificial.
Upmixing to stereo music 5.1 though. That's less clever. Using 2 chanels with Dolby Headphone is great for restoring the soundstage information of the original recording - just like listening to decent stereo speakers out in front of you. That can give some startling 3D effects if recorded well.
Anyone else using these with LOTRO?
I'm wearing a fresh pair right now, they are comfy, the sound seems good with the above EQ settings approximated, but the MIC is terrible. I'm super quiet... all mic volume sliders are maxed. There no +xDB mic boost in the drivers for this headset.
Can anyone help?
So far, my review of this headset is favourable, aside from the Mic issue.
I don't use them with LOTRO, but I've noticed--and read online--that sometimes the mic volume slider will be turned down significantly, and inexplicably. Have you checked the driver configuration window in the Mixer tab? I put the mic's line volume to maximum there and have had nothing but compliments about the mic quality on my HS1.
AKAIK it's not a slider movement issue. I've checked to make sure it's at max when i'm quiet, which is always.
... driver configuration window in mixer tab? Do you mean the corsair software's mic vol slider? or?
The only way I can be heard really, is to really speak quite loudly, much much louder than I would normally. (i'm not a quiet talker)
I went out tonight and purchased these based on the "Gold" award from my favorite website and I have to say I couldn't be more disappointed. I should have spent 2 minutes looking at the Corsair forums and realized these are crap. Tons of posts about their crap mic. You even mention in your review the issue but make it sound like it was your rigs fault. Corsair has done nothing to address the issue and for a company introducing their first audio product, way to piss off the customers...
We'll see if Microcenter has an RMA reason code for "piece of crap"
You likely have a defective unit; if it isn't defective, it could very well be some combination of their v1 drivers and your hardware/software. In either case, you can simply return them to the place you bought them and tell them they're not working properly--it has, after all, been less than 7, 14, or 30 days right?
Corsair may be having a production problem or they may simply need a new iteration of the drivers. In every case of which I've yet heard, they quickly and painlessly grant an RMA for people having problems. There isn't much more a company can do.
As for "what more can they do?", how about Corsair be more responsive to the people on their forums wanting to know what the hell is going on?
I know that [H] graphics card, proc, mobo, psu reviews are solid. I just can't say the same for the Audio reviews.
When playing tf2 since I'm able to utilize the mic boost from the game I have no problems communicating with teammates and the headphones are absolutely superb. If the mic is transmitting crap sound quality that it really does sound like it might just be a defective unit. It would help Corsair if they actually did something instead of just responding to everything mic related with "RMA it"Between this and the Creative WOW headset snapping on those super thin extention pieces within a couple weeks I've decided I can't trust Hard|OCP's audio reviews anymore, just not enough testing involved like the other hardware categories.