A Guidebook on the most effective Gamer Headsets For Xbox 360 and PS3

The comfort is also pretty minimal. These headphones are super aural, which means they rest on your ears as opposed to over them like circumaural.

When the highs are bright, some folks find it to the point of shrillness, and it is a turnoff for them. I type of enjoy that kind of sound. I adore it when highs are bright with headphones, and these Grados do not disappoint. Turtle Beach HPX($80)

Click this bar to view the full image.


And the flexibility was really great, but really durable. If you’ve ever had among the metal flexible desk lamps, it is possible to fundamentally picture this as a mini version of that, it is extremely nice.

This headset is an open backed headset, and is circumaural, though I discovered my ears touching the sides of the pad, one thing I don’t expertise with my 595’s or the pc 350’s. All in all the construct is good quality, although it’d be nice to have a a lot more comfortable fit on the head/ears.

Some TV’s can work fine with it, some you’ll need to really crank up the volume. The Astro Mixamp can drive them correctly, but Pat’s Audio -GD compass can’t. It is tough to tell what hardware this headset would work with and what it wouldn’t work with, so I'm personally torn when deciding the victor in the headset music department. Should you can get the proper drive, like hooking an mp3 player to the Astro Mixamp (which is funny simply because the Astro Mixamp doesn’t truly do much to drive headphones a lot more than other straight up devices, so it is just quite, quite odd.) then the HPX will outperform the other headsets.

Intro-

*Update 1/1/10: Following reading a review from Tom's Hardware on Astro Gaming's website, it is noted that the wiring inside the Astro's have improved.
It's great that Astro sells replacement microphones in case yours breaks or you lose it, but I'm just not sure how lengthy the mics last with the headset, and how long the mic jack of the headset would last.


Sound-

Going from the HPX’s to the A40’s, the difference was fairly noticeable off the bat. Intro-

The headset is in fact collapsible, though it still seems sort of bulky when folded up so I didn’t genuinely see the point of that feature. But at the folding points, it makes you feel the headset is really a bit weaker than it in fact is. Right after testing its durability, I can assure you this headset is top quality. This headset is fully closed. For music, it has just a slight tinny sound to it in music. It's better than the a40 for clarity thanks to the 595's drivers, but it is only slightly greater in the hollow sound and light bass department. As for directional positioning, it matches the HPX's and A40's.

In music you may have the ability to hear a slight tinny sound due to the closed back of the headset. I haven't noticed it in gaming nevertheless. There is a good reason they have been a favorite of the MLG Pro circuit for years now.

Design wise, you will see a pretty regular open circumaural headphone, having a leather headband pad, velour ear pads, clicking headband adjustments, and 1 really lengthy cable coming from the left ear. Basically whenever you speak about the pro’s of the headsets, when you have the 595’s, you take those pros, and just take them to the next level. We went into this review totally expecting the headphones to outperform the headsets. The headphones were an excellent way of determining the quality of the headsets, given that if you just compare headsets to headsets; you merely get a gauge of the biggest fish in the little pond.

For a lot more info on gaming check out: Gamer Headsets for Xbox 360,