Hey everyone

Just wanted to ask if anyone uses or knows of some good gaming headphones, as the only time i seem to get to game is at late at night due to young baby and have to keep the volume pretty  low.

Would be really interested to hear if anyone has had some good/bad experiences with any headphones.

Thanks

Its a bit of a sore topic in my house right now, but I just got a set of PX5's, and fair play, they are pretty bloody awesome. Almost worth the amount of shit I am getting off the wife about it. Almost. 

I already have a set of AX Pro's, which I (now) use for my PC up in the office. Of the two, I am slightly more impressed by the PX5's, but it could be a case of new car smell. Both are a fine headset. 

Well In the end I went for a set of dpx21. Really happy with them the sound is great.
Hope everyone had a good Xmas and all that thanks for all your help on this.

Does anyone have an input on the Turtle Beach XC1 headset? Basically, my setup doesn't allow for a normal set of headphones, lots of cable going through my wall into another room, everything is going through lots of switcher boxes (I use a lot of game recording hardware). However, I do want to improve the quality of sound from the default Xbox headset. So if anyone knows if the XC1s are better than the Microsoft microphone, or has a better product that does the same thing in mind, please let me know!

I have me a set of Tutrle Beach X1's Yes I know I'm rocking it old school

The mic is a pain in the ass now as the mini jack is going and gives me a buzzing noise when I have a plug n play attached to the controller.

The Cable I got with these must be 5+ metres It's more then enough for any of my rooms. 

3 years on and they still sound great(apart from the mic crackle and buzz, but I can unplug that) they are only stereo but do a great job of helping locate people in COD, and not wake the other half up or anyone else in the house for that matter.

My understanding is the X11's are the updated version of the X1's but they get my thumbs up.

I've rocked Turtle Beach X41's in the past and thought they were great, but I would say, if you can afford it, Nothing compares to the Astro A40's. Treated myself last Xmas and haven't regretted it. While the X41's were good the sound quality of the Astro's is far superior.

OK I maybe stepping into Jaffa Cake – Cake or Biscuit territory but I am sniffing around some new headphones and keep flipping between some Turtle Beach or Tritton ones.

currently I have a pair of Sennheiser HD215 which dont have a mike but do flip up on one side DJ style so sometimes I have resorted to my headphones on one ear and my old plantronics Halo 2 mike on the other for multiplayer (I look the bomb I tell you) so was thinking of maybe switching up.

However I am pretty happy with my headphones in general so looked at the Turtle Beach surround sound processor box thingy but some reviews say its not as good as a dedicated set of headphones. So then you have these Tritton ones with loads of little speakers in it for true surround sound but some say they are not as good as one larger dedicated speaker and so on and so on.

I could save my shiny pennies and get something expensive but I know that most expensive does not always equal most good but I dont want to get something thats not really that much of a step up from what I have.

any advice would be most welcome. apologies for my wild thrashings but you can go round and round with these sorts of things.

I always thought the Turtle Beach ones were something to sell to kids in Game as thats where I first saw them and had not heard of the make but after further research see that they are a 'brand' for that sort of thing. I do like the look of the Trittons though maybe its the upside down Atari logo they use or something….

There is a mathamatical formula for working out how much you tell your wife something cost:

She asks you how much and you ask her back how much she thinks they cost.

you quickly minus about 5 to 10% from the figure she gave you and tell her thats how much it was.

and they she says well thats still alot and I dont know why you need another Game / Iron Man figure / Pair of Pants etc.

thanks for the link so many beautiful things……………

I got X41s for Xmas this year. I had X1s which are brilliant but wanted surround sound.

My verdict?

They have a slightly cheap build quality visually, but appear very sturdy.

They are comfy, but not quite as comfy as my X1s.

Surround sound f**king rocks

Surround sound really f**king rocks!

Xbox chat can be a little crackly and I get occasional crackle on louder bass sounds, however I don't really notice anymore.

I can now accurately pinpoint the position of a helo in BF3, both direction and elevation, much better than when my 5.1 AV system is fired up and turned up loud, amazing seing as they are not true surround sound (by that I mean they do not have the 5 speakers that my AV system does)

I wouldn't go back to non surround.

ONE BIG WORD OF WARNING:

This I should think applies to all wireless headsets – RF interference can be an issue. I had my X41 transmitter about 1m from my xbox, which has a wireless adapter. They interfered with each other, the Xbox would drop off of xbox live and speeds were slow, and the sound quality on the X41s was poor. I bought extension leads and now the X41 transmitter is about 3m from the Xbox and everything is much improved. I have Fibre BB so I have an N type router which I now understand is meant to take up much more bandwith and is more prone to interference.

Summary?

I love my TBs, and they are outstanding for the price £90 Shopto.net, but from my research, the more expensive Astros might be worth a look if budget is not a consideration.