[Vodka Panda]

I just bought a pair of Tritton AX51 headphones for my PS3 and 360. The problem is that they can't be plugged into my television. Is there some kind of converter I can use to make them work in the optical, HDMI, or AV slots? Thanks for any help.

 

[Discobiscuits]

if ur using component/rca you can buy an 3.5mm female to RCA male converter.

but if it were my choice, i'd plant a bomb in each driver and nuke those headphones to hell.

 

[Nocturnal310]

Whats the problem with 5.1 headphones?

and why dont popular brands like Sennheiser or AKG make them?

 

[taso89]

The problem is that none of them sound as good as a quality stereo headphone.

Plus, 3d virtualization in games and such has gotten good enough to the point where you don't really need 2-3 speakers and a woofer in each can. It is inefficient both in a financial and acoustic sense.

 

[ashmedai]

Making good stereo headphones (i.e. one driver, one ear) is a fun physics problem, but one where proximity and 1:1 correspondence between source and receiver keeps it from being easy to bungle that badly.

Now try assigning two front and rear sources to each ear, plus a center, plus a "subwoofer." Good luck with that. There are some okay approximations for gaming, but the SQ will be something along the lines of laughable compared to even mediocre stereo headphones. And this is without bringing up the topic of interference, damping, reflections, dead areas...

Anyway, you can fake it in software well enough that there's no point in many minds to even attempting a 5.1 headphone.

Heh...taso beat me to it.

 

[spacemanspliff]

Yup. 5.1 headphones are a ****ing JOKE. That is your problem. Sorry you spent your $ on them but yeah.