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Well you are just not listening I'll leave it like that.
I have used 5.1 headset for a year on gears of war and used mixamp plus hd 600 for 4 months. what I can tell you is that I returned to 5.1 because at lower volumes I could hear where my enemies where. I also have a creative soundcard with cmss-3d which is better than dolby headphones. I have done lots of blind tests where my wife and I try to locate objects according to sound hint on a map, mostly gears of war. so I know what I am talking.
It is like Vulgar says, it depends on what you want or what you like.
If you 'prefer' the sound of 5.1 phnoes, then you haven't heard a good set of stereo phones.
The upside of this is the decent phones will also be good for music, which something 5.1 headsets also suck at.
You won't get audiophile quality from those sources anyway, but that's not what they're for.
No matter how much money you throw at it, you don't get real 5.1 from headphones of any description. They are all overpriced bling and techno babble.
Your 650s need a very good amp to deliver their potential in SQ and soundstage. If you were to amp them well, and play games through a PC on them, they would be equal or better to the 5.1 jobbies, plus do music far better than any of them.
There is little that is 'precise' about gaming. The SFX files are simple and the soundtracks often highly compressed. It doesn't take a high end stereo phone like the 650 to get the best positional audio out of gaming, in fact 650 would probably be overkill. If you 'crap yourself' on the headset it's far morel ikely the bass is over boosted to beef up the noises.
The guy I've bought all my gear form has been a competitive gamer for 15 years and has never bought a 5.1 headset in his life, as he knows the limitations of games files, the sources used, and where the returns in positional audio max out.
It's not a fair call to suggest that gaming requires oodles of cash and = higher returns.
Also who said anything about "so I know what I am talking".