I’ve shared this piece of advice before, here and elsewhere, in extension of my previous point of avoiding gaming headsets and headsets entirely. Get a good decent pair of headphones and a cheap clip on mic, unless you’re actually doing any sort of professional voice work and recording yourself for an audience you really do not need anything particularly impressive.
This is what I’ve been using for a few years now and if it ever DID break I could just replace it without having to also throw out my otherwise perfectly functional headphones. The audio quality it delivers is perfectly fine for just chatting with your friends over your preferred VOIP solution. Anyone joining me for the board games tomorrow gets to see for themselves if they find it acceptable or not.
This way you can also physically disconnect your mic anytime you’re not using it, just in case you’re concerned about anyone using your otherwise always connected peripherals to spy on you. It’s not likely but it’s nice to have the option, right?
As Fraggels, or baggles or whatever that guy is named -wich I happen to agree on every possible matter- pointed out, Senheisser are really good, thing is they earned good reputation fast (deserved) and that spiked up the prices quite a bit, so, their products used to be a bargain and now they are “just” solid and good.
If you have no budget, BOSE is the best thing you can get before going into proffesional music tech for recording and such (and even there, BOSE kicks ass).
Logitech is the durable and good choice of mine when I take in consideration things like money, economy and such petty things.
I’m quite happy with my current headphones for pc wich happen to be dirt cheap but I’m far from my house now and I don’t remember so, in a few days I will tell you the model.
Edit: my current headphones (with microphone incorporated) are Logitech USB Headset H340, cheap as dirt and very solid. It’s not a masterpiece of engineering for the best sound quality but still solid.
About the HX Cloud, there should be a version without the built-in sound card, I think…
@Eidos I had a pair of noise-cancelling headphones by Bose and a soundbar for my TV. They’re good (and expensive) products, don’t get me wrong, but they’re also balanced towards bass frequencies, too much in fact.
The best one I ever experienced is the Bose wireless headphones QuietComfort, got them for $350, the most comfortable headphones I ever wore, no regrets.
These are what I’m rockin. I bought a pair from this site about a year ago after my SO bought a pair. They’re really well made, comfortable, and the soud quality is really good. I am not a person who is good with over ear headphones so when I say they’re comfortable I mean it. My son also got a pair and he goes through headphone like they’re disposable so they’re sturdy. For the price I feel like you get more than you pay for. Something to think about.
got my audio technica ath m50 bout 10 years ago, been moving with them morning and night 5 day a week ever since and they only started to die a couple months ago xD
For the past year I have been using a pair of audio technica ath m40x’s and I love how they sound (my previous pair was the superlux HD 668B headphones that whitdemon posted)
