while you're thinking hard about the exact CPU video card and monitor combo
to get so that your games will look exactly how you want them to it can be
very easy to forget about how they will end up sounding but when you do remember
oh yeah I guess I need to get some speakers or headphones for my new rig
you might be hit with a flood of ads for
gaming headsets promising detailed audio
and precise directional sound so you can tell exactly where those gunshots are
coming from but what are those headsets
really offering you that a more conventional set of headphones paired
with a separate microphone wouldn't typically gaming headsets will be a
package deal of sorts not only do you get the headphones and the attached
microphone but often some kind of remote
control for volume different audio modes or even in-game settings some kind of
virtual surround functionality whether it be 5.1 or 7.1 noise isolation to help
you shut out external sound when gaming and that all important gamer aesthetic
that some of you might be into often gaming headsets seem like a good value
because they offer lots of different functionality in one box and appeal to
people who just want a quick solution for all their gaming audio needs that
they can just plug in and use and in
that vein many gaming headsets use a USB
connection in instead of two separate 32
mm analog connections because they have their own built-in Sound Processing so
they'll work even if your sound card or integrated motherboard audio is broken
but if gaming headsets offer all these great features then why is it that many
people prefer regular headphones with a separate mic instead well it's back to
that convenience thing with the convenience and all the cool features
that are packed into that gaming headset comes a tradeoff in terms of audio
quality a lot of the time so the gaming
headset manufacturers it's not that they don't know how to make a good sounding product it's just that for cost reasons
all the extra stuff that they're packing in is going to take away from money they
could have spent on making the headphones themselves beefier so the
thing to ask yourself is do you even need the functions that you get with a
gaming headset bearing in mind that some of them can be replicated on regular
headphones since much of what's advertised is often done through
software for example many of the headsets that advertise multi-channel
surround actually achieve this entirely through some oral trickery because there
are only actually two drivers in there so you can download software that gives
you the same effect on whatever headphones you're using not to mention
that the headsets that use a USB connection cannot be used with a
different DAC and amp combination or sound card so good luck trying to
improve the sound quality with one of those and then even if your headset does
use a 3 12 mimer Jack many are notorious
for poorly constructed drivers and worse sound staging than many popular
headphone models despite the fact that positional audio is a major selling
point for gaming headsets but that isn't to say that all gaming headsets are all
bad some of them are actually quite well constructed and while they won't give
you the same performance in things like
movies or music some manufacturers even admit this outright this thing is tuned
for gaming you do get the benefit of that easy all-in-one experience so if
the most film watching that you do is uh
in cutcenes in between shooting people then a gaming headset may be for you
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