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while you're thinking hard about the exact CPU video card and monitor combo

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to get so that your games will look exactly how you want them to it can be

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very easy to forget about how they will end up sounding but when you do remember

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oh yeah I guess I need to get some speakers or headphones for my new rig

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you might be hit with a flood of ads for

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gaming headsets promising detailed audio

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and precise directional sound so you can tell exactly where those gunshots are

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coming from but what are those headsets

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really offering you that a more conventional set of headphones paired

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with a separate microphone wouldn't typically gaming headsets will be a

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package deal of sorts not only do you get the headphones and the attached

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microphone but often some kind of remote

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control for volume different audio modes or even in-game settings some kind of

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virtual surround functionality whether it be 5.1 or 7.1 noise isolation to help

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you shut out external sound when gaming and that all important gamer aesthetic

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that some of you might be into often gaming headsets seem like a good value

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because they offer lots of different functionality in one box and appeal to

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people who just want a quick solution for all their gaming audio needs that

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they can just plug in and use and in

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that vein many gaming headsets use a USB

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connection in instead of two separate 32

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mm analog connections because they have their own built-in Sound Processing so

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they'll work even if your sound card or integrated motherboard audio is broken

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but if gaming headsets offer all these great features then why is it that many

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people prefer regular headphones with a separate mic instead well it's back to

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that convenience thing with the convenience and all the cool features

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that are packed into that gaming headset comes a tradeoff in terms of audio

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quality a lot of the time so the gaming

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headset manufacturers it's not that they don't know how to make a good sounding product it's just that for cost reasons

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all the extra stuff that they're packing in is going to take away from money they

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could have spent on making the headphones themselves beefier so the

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thing to ask yourself is do you even need the functions that you get with a

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gaming headset bearing in mind that some of them can be replicated on regular

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headphones since much of what's advertised is often done through

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software for example many of the headsets that advertise multi-channel

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surround actually achieve this entirely through some oral trickery because there

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are only actually two drivers in there so you can download software that gives

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you the same effect on whatever headphones you're using not to mention

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that the headsets that use a USB connection cannot be used with a

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different DAC and amp combination or sound card so good luck trying to

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improve the sound quality with one of those and then even if your headset does

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use a 3 12 mimer Jack many are notorious

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for poorly constructed drivers and worse sound staging than many popular

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headphone models despite the fact that positional audio is a major selling

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point for gaming headsets but that isn't to say that all gaming headsets are all

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bad some of them are actually quite well constructed and while they won't give

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you the same performance in things like

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movies or music some manufacturers even admit this outright this thing is tuned

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for gaming you do get the benefit of that easy all-in-one experience so if

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the most film watching that you do is uh

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in cutcenes in between shooting people then a gaming headset may be for you

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