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Jenni
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How much of a difference does it make.
Plus are those Medusa 5.1 headphones any good?
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 17:04 Post subject: |
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since i bought my Audigy 4 last year i cant´t imagine playing without it. And thats not a top of the line card the newer ones are supposedly superior in every way.
Dont´t know about ´Medusa 5.1, i use a pair of Zalman 5.1 that i acuired a couple of years ago and they still do the trick i rally noticed the difference when i got the audigy, but it also depends on the game Hl2 has great surround
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 17:18 Post subject: |
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Got my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality card before Xmas, running with a pair of Steel Sound 5H headphones...No going back I tell you. Gaming is like friggin 7.1 stereo in your headphones. I actually never use my speakers anymore...sorta.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 18:18 Post subject: |
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I agree. Although I've just got an el cheapo 5.1 card I totally intend to get a more superior card next week. These Medusa's are bloody amazing. I love the way the bass vibrates your head too.
Fantastic. Worth every penny of the £60 I just spent on them.
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 18:29 Post subject: |
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Wow, this Medusa looks great! Might actually pick it up, it's what I've been looking for for a few weeks now...
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Jenni
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 18:34 Post subject: |
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I would most vertainly get one. Go for the 3.5mm jackplug one rather than the solely USB one. I'm told the jack one is much better. Although the jack one has a USB connector it's just for sound.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 18:40 Post subject: |
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The Steel Sound 5H are similar USB and jack. I got a cheap "Y" connector/splitter Like this That way I can use the phones and if i want just switch on my speakers without swapping and stuff.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 18:57 Post subject: |
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But stereo and gaming are completely different kettle of fishes. Same with home cinema sound.
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 18:59 Post subject: |
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I use Seinnheiser stereo headphones and I can hear from which direction a sound is coming in any EAX/surround sound game perfectly.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 19:00 Post subject: |
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I agree 100% there Jenni. X-Fi/EAX is GREAT! for gaming, for music, well it sounds cool and all. But hey i am no Hi-Fi freak and honestly I don't care. Gaming is ALL! and the rest is for free, you catch my drift 
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Jenni
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 19:29 Post subject: |
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Well I'm a home cinema buff and a gamer. Actually my other half is a home cinema buff and I caught the bug. I know for a fact that to say you can use this for gaming and the same thing for music is 100% bullshit. It's like using chopsticks to eat baked beans.
It would work, but hell you won't get the same effect.
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 20:05 Post subject: |
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It's a different case with headphones than with speakers. I got a home cinema myself and the whole shebangs, so it's not like I'm talking out of my ass.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 20:23 Post subject: |
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Christ give me credit. Theres home cinema and theres home cinema.
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| Posted: Fri, 19th Jan 2007 20:39 Post subject: |
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i said good stereo headphones produce much more better soundstage (i meant surround). just buy some X-Fi and enable CMSS. i just tried for a test Medusa 5.1 and my Audio-Technica ones.. nope, Medusa doesn't make any nice surround environment feeling + it sounds like a Lada when pushing pedal
cmss is like Creative's Dolby and EAX implementation which works eveywhere in the games that doesn't support EAX..
yes
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Jan 2007 09:39 Post subject: |
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I seriously doubt you get good gaming sounds on a stereo headphones than on a made for gaming headset.
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Jan 2007 10:37 Post subject: |
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Jan 2007 12:32 Post subject: |
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Try as you might to convince me it's not working. I've got the headphones on now and well I can tell you they are quite good at directional sounding. Certainly much better than the Sony headphones I was using. Which were coincidently music headphones. Tell me, if i snapped my fingers 85 degrees then snapped my fingers again at 95 degrees, could you not tell they're coming from a different direction?
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Jan 2007 12:35 Post subject: |
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The other prob is to find good headphones with a MICROPHONE! there is no "good" "Hi-Fi" phones to my knowledge with that, or? And I would not call my self a gamer with a Headset without a Mic!
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Jan 2007 12:38 Post subject: |
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Get a Sennheiser with a microphone, CaptainCox. Excellent quality STEREO headset (yeah, I like mocking Jenni  ).
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Jan 2007 12:43 Post subject: |
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Anyone tried the Razer Barracuda HP-1. Sure Big Bucks, but I wonder if they are also Big Bang 
http://www.ocia.net/reviews/barracuda/page1.shtml
EDIT: yea used to have a pair of Sennheiser's, can't remember the model, sure good stuff, but at that time I used to sleep with my headphones and I fuked them up. I wrote a thread about this in the "hardware" section a while back. Prob is with them is that they don't cover the whole ear. My Steels does that and its so much more comfortable.
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| Posted: Sun, 21st Jan 2007 00:48 Post subject: |
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i got some Sennheiser HD 25's
I use them from djing aswell... but fucking brilliant headphones
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my dream is to get used Orpheus for around $4000, they cost at new around 16 000 (i don't even know if Sennheiser is developing anymore).
