Headsets

[TeaLeaf]

Sennheiser PC 363D and passed with flying colours.  Reckon it's those ear thangs OB! :roflmao:

[OldBloke]

Sennheiser PC 363D and passed with flying colours.  Reckon it's those ear thangs OB! :roflmao:

Yep. Should've bought a cheaper headset it seems :doh:

[Sneakytiger]

dont worry oldie i only got 3/5 with my hyperx cloud headset, must be our ears.lol

[Liberator]

For a really cheap budget PCWORLD currently have the turtle beach Z22 headset for £14.97 which are about £50 everywhere else. It has a USB powered amp with aux inputs for phone or mp3 on separate vol control.

I picked one up as a backup yesterday, not tried it yet except to see if it fitted my fat head.

Clearance price, so only available in stores that have stock.

[ReddFour]

For a really cheap budget PCWORLD currently have the turtle beach Z22 headset for £14.97 which are about £50 everywhere else. It has a USB powered amp with aux inputs for phone or mp3 on separate vol control.

I picked one up as a backup yesterday, not tried it yet except to see if it fitted my fat head.

Clearance price, so only available in stores that have stock.

Although these wouldn't suit me, I just checked and my local PC World has stock (one of the few that has) so if anyone else wanted them and couldn't find a local store with stock, I'd be happy to pick them and post them.

[ReddFour]

Well it turns out by chance yesterday that my work colleague has a pair of hyperx cloud and has bought them into today for me to test. Very kind.

I've also got a pair of Beyerdynamic Dt770 coming from Amazon today.

And I've found a Richer Sounds near me with the Akg K550 so am trying those out at lunchtime.

From everything I've read though, I'll be surprised if I return the DT770s.

[TeaLeaf]

I've also got a pair of Beyerdynamic Dt770 coming from Amazon today.

From everything I've read though, I'll be surprised if I return the DT770s.

They have excellent reviews, so I'd be surprised too!    Out of interest, which ohm version did you go for?

[albert]

How does it work? The higher the Ohm value is required if you are amplifying? I saw someone mention 80Ohm are good for computer use.

[TeaLeaf]

I'm no electronic expert, just someone who loves to listen to music, so here is my non-scientific massive generalisation and over-simplification of the pros and cons:

Higher impedance headphones go with higher impedance amps, and vice versa.  
Bigger ohms means more volts less current, volts drive bigger diaphragms more quickly and therefore arguably have marginally better bass response.
Lower ohms means lower volts, but more current.  
Solid state amps are way better at producing current than the old valve amps were.
Low ohm headphones with high sensitivity work well with battery stuff, like your mp3 player etc as they use less power.
Your amp and your speaker/headphones need to work together - you match them: high with high, low with low.

And that is a criminally short over-generalised summary which you can shoot down in so many ways.  

Here's the difference between the three versions (32ohm, 250ohm and 600ohm) of those headphones:

http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/BeyerdynamicDT88032ohm.pdf
http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/BeyerdynamicDT880250ohm.pdf
http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/BeyerdynamicDT880600ohm.pdf

Higher Ohms tends to mean more power needed to drive them, so 600 Ohms might need a very good amplifier.  32ohms could be played on most stuff.

[Gorion]

Albert, view the link below.  They go through Ohms.

Watch this if you want an actual explanation.

The general consensus is that tube amps have better sounding notes than solid state.  Tubes cost a lot though.

[ReddFour]

I went for the 80 Ohm ones.

[TeaLeaf]

I went for the 80 Ohm ones.

:roflmao: I looked up the stats for the 880's by mistake instead of the 770's!

[Sneakytiger]

if any 1 is intrested I will be bringing my new hyperx cloud headset to the april lan, u can see what u think,i just love em.

[DannagE]

I've got a set of 880 editions, I will bring them along with me if anyone wants to try them. Used to run them through a woo audio amp, but I no longer have it
No idea how it sounds without the amp, been using the corsairs mainly now. But those had loads of interference at the last lan.

[ReddFour]

Well I tried out the AKG K550 at lunchtime. They were very good.

At home this evening I've tested both the HyperX Cloud and Beyerdynamics KT770.

The HyperX Cloud are okay. They are a minor step up from my old Corsair HS30 but not as much in it as I expected. The sound is still all muddied with poor soundstage and no real clarity to my ears. So on to the KT770 through the same source. Could they live up to the amazing reviews I had read of them? Bloody hell and then some!!! These things are on a totally different level. Great lows, great mids and great highs. Everything is so clear in comparison. I'm listening to them as I type this, they are insanely good. I've heard people say after buying a good pair of headphones that they have heard stuff in the music they never heard before. I always thought what a load of old tosh.....until now. I listened to one song this evening I've listened to a thousand times and discovered an instrument in it I never knew was there. Seriously. The sound stage on these is amazing for a closed cup headphone. They are so comfortable it's silly. I read reviews saying they were like a pillow on your head. I wasn't expecting that to be true but it is. By far the most comfortable pair of headphones I've worn. Noise isolation is also fantastic.

The KT770 may be twice the price of the HyperX but they sound so much better.

The one downside - I could never go back to listening to cheaper headphones again so I'll be stuck paying out a bit more in future. However, I have no intention of getting rid of the KT770 until they break down and I hope that is a long long time away. My work colleague can happily have his HyperX back but as he was so nice to lend them to me to test, I'll just lie and say the KT770 were a little bit better

Oh, the other downside is I now don't have a mic until I come up with a solution. These are too good to go back to all in one gaming headsets though.