Well I got the BT TaoTronics headset and tried recording on my phone with it. Had to look for an app that could even record from the BT mic as most can't and even then it would only record at 8khz/32kbps, compared to the phone's mic at 44khz/128kbps, so as you can imagine it sounded like crap...

At the moment I'm using a ghetto mic I knocked up by taking the boom arm from a £3 headset and replacing the capsule with a Panasonic WM-61A Electret Condenser mic capsule http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Panasonic-WM-61A...=item1c14d3e197 (there was a bunch of useful circuit diagrams on that listing...

I'm looking at getting an HDMI extractor which decodes the following formats to 5.1 - Dolby Digital (AC3)/DTS Would that cover all the surround formats that games use or might use in the future? If games were to use TrueHD or DTS-HD as long as they provided a backup surround track in Dolby...

I need something that will allow me to connect my PC, Raspberry Pi, Xbox360 and STB HDMI outputs and decode all audio formats (DTS, Dolby Digital, etc) to 5.1 (maybe 7.1) analog line level outputs. I bought a pair of self-powered X-mini Max speakers...

I needed a mic to attach to my Samson SR850 headphones. I used one of these Panasonic WM-61A Electret Condenser mic capsules http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Panasonic-WM-61A-Electret-Condenser-MIC-Capsule-10PCS-/120608514455?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1c14d3e197 as they're meant to have high...

Yeah, I wanted it to work but it just doesn't do anything worthwhile for me, more of a enhanced/wider stereo than surround, so real speakers it will have to be.   I don't really understand why Razer wouldn't work with HDMI though, as I thought Razer processes the sound coming from the game and...

My turn to necro :)   Just wanted to add that it doesn't work well for me with my Samson SR850, which I thought would be well suited being open-back. It gives things a bit more atmosphere, much like reverb would but I can't say there's any great positioning effect that I can notice. I tried it...

I was actually using Razer Surround until recently but I found it was causing a lot of crashes and I also kept finding that I'd boot up a lot of the time and have no sound, whether from the Razer control panel tests or even after disabling Razer and trying to use the normal soundcard instead, so...

OK thanks, yeah it was the last one I'm interested in so I'll wait until you receive it.

Hi, just wondering if you've received the adapter and had a chance to test it yet?

Yeah, I can solder but if you're talking about soldering the cable on the buds, from past experience they tend to have very fine wires that are rather hard to strip and solder and I don't want to risk ending up with a broken pair of buds :-o   I could make my own adapter cable if there's...

Cool, thanks. That should give me plenty of time to return the buds if it doesn't work.

OK thanks, that's affordable but it doesn't say anything about being a omtp to ctia adapter and the description suggests it's just for using normal 3.5" headphones with an iphone, so it still might not make the mic work on Android.   I don't really want to waste money, even if it's only £1 and...

OK but the ones on Amazon costs £7.90, which is almost as much as the headphones, so that's not worth it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiio-LU1-Adapter-Cable-headphones-black/dp/B005I0GHV8   Searching google or ebay didn't find any cheaper alternatives. I guess I'll have to return the buds and...

Dammit, I asked my brother to get my these for Christmas but it turns out the mic doesn't work with Android phones, only Ipod/Iphone. I guess I was tired when researching what to get and got confused :(   Is there a cheap adapter I can get to make the mic work (don't care about the button...

Thanks, I do need to get something with a mic so I'll take a look at those. To be honest it's not worth being too fussy about audio quality considering that I only ever wear one earpiece when out so that I can maintain some situational awareness.   At home, I either use my full-sized...

Thanks for the tip but the reviews on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Ericsson-MH750-Headset-Stereo/dp/B007M0IXLY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386539981&sr=8-1&keywords=sony+mh750 mention that it has an annoying cable that transmits vibrations and doesn't hang down properly, so despite being cheap...

I'd like to get a pair of these but I think having the remote/mic only 3 inches from the left bud would annoy the hell out of me, as it would be dangling against my neck. I want my remote/mic sitting on my chest out of the way and I like to tuck the cable from the bud up under my wooly hat...

Quote:   They're just some generic ones I was recommended from ebay.

I was looking at the modmic http://www.modmic.com/pages/design-and-specsand it gives the specs as high-fidelity 6mm electret capsule condenser microphone. Operating Voltage: 1 to 10V Max current at 2.0V: 500 µA so where does it get the power it needs from, as I'm not aware that the mic...

I just fitted the replacement leather earpads on my SR850, which was a bit of a struggle but I got there ;) However, the foam pad that lies over each transducer is now somewhat bulging up, rather than lying flat as it did before and I'm concerned this might be affecting the sound. It might...

I've been experimenting with attaching the mic ripped off an old Logitech headset to my Samson SR-850 headphones but I'm not really happy with the sensitivity, with it needing to be right by my mouth to pick anything up. I also have to use my Realtek soundcard's boost of +20 or +30db, which also...

I'm not competing professionally or anything like that (in fact I'm pretty useless at MP, mostly ArmA II but I still enjoy it), it's just that I love the immersive sound I get using my surround sound speakers (only 4) and wanted to get that same immersion using headphones, as I live in a flat...

Quote: Really, because the comments I've read have suggested that THX has extremely poor positional audio, Dolby Headphone is very reverby and CMSS-3D is the best of the three virtual surround systems for positioning sounds.   I'm not aware of any other virtual surround technologies, at...

Oh wow, was just about to buy one then I read that the X-Fi Titanium series don't have a "mic boost" option, which is a major fail for me as I need to use that on my realteak onboard to make my voice loud enough.   I can only assume this applies to the Azuntech X-Fi Prelude as well, as it...