[OliG]

Hello,

This is my first post and I would like to share my little story, and ask a little question.

I primary use headphones for gaming, so I've been fooled by "gaming headsets" in the past.

Luckyly, my last "gaming headset", a 5.1 edimentional audiofx, have broken (mic stopped working...) and I began my quest for the best headset a student can afford... I swear, I was at checkout process of buying a "tritton 5.1 surround headset" when I discovered this site... thank god.

After reading a lot, I ended up buying sennheiser HD555. I honestly never tought a pair of headphones could make such a big difference! I now understand what you guys means by "sound separation"

...

My first impression was in games, in battlefield 2 to be precise, and the sennheiser sounded a lot better than my audiofx (the drivers still works ok so I compared). But, after I listened to some music, radiohead hail to the thief was the fisrt to go in, as I tought the variety of sounds it contains would be a good test. This is precisely at this moment that my ears have understood the difference in sound quality! I honestly had somes chills while listening with HD555... The audiofx simply could not hold and play adequately music. I really, really like thoses sennheiser headphones, and worse of all, I know theses are just the bottom line of good headphones...

The only little cloud in the sky is, while listening to music, I noticed somes littles "clap" sounds... like if the music stopped for a fraction of a second. I know this is not the cd, as I own the original and I replayed it, and it occured at differents places in tracks. Maybee there is a term to name thoses "claps" sounds but I dont know it. Do you know what it is? My guess (and hopes) is that it come from my integrated sound card... Is it possible?

Finally, I would like to know what mic do you use to pair with your headphones? I read that zalman mic was the way to go... is there any other options? (I was thinking about a neckworn mic)

Thanks a lot!

 

[carmatic]

it could be that the 'claps' have always been there , but you were too 'deaf' with the 'gaming headphones' to notice it?

 

[Rickio]

sounds like a bad rip. when ripping the cd the cdrom stutters making synch errors. you need a better application like EAC to make a good rip.

 

[ZMU817]

if you're using your computer, the claps, instant of silence as you described could be a result of your computer not being able to play the music smoothly, because of a cheap audio card that doesn't offload the processes from the CPU, or just too much going on.

my thought.

 

[TSi]

lol, are u using a p4? lol, time for upgrade, try using another source

 

[Punnisher]

It's probably the integrated audio. Or maybe it's the plugin used for playing audio. What program are you using to play audio? You might try different programs, maybe winamp and foobar, they seem the most popular around here anyway.

Welcome, and sorry about your wallet!

 

[MontyPythizzle]

His computer can't be too bad, he is playing BF2...

Needs to get Foobar2k.

 

[Chickenman]

For your mic, I heard that many professional gamers use another headset with a mic integrated on it and hang it on their neck so that they could use the mic. Don't quote me on this though, I might be wrong.

 

[OliG]

Thanks for all the quick replys

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it could be that the 'claps' have always been there , but you were too 'deaf' with the 'gaming headphones' to notice it?

Yeah, exactly what I think too

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sounds like a bad rip.

I wish it was that but as said before, I was using the original cd to be sure there would not be rip issues...

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lol, are u using a p4?

well my E6600 isnt the most recent processor but it usually get the job done in any application (specially coupled with 4g of ram and a 8800GT video card

).
The weakest link is the audio source... I am using the integrated audio card of a intel DQ965 motherboard... Would you guys recommend a new sound card? wich one, lets say below 100$?

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What program are you using to play audio?

I was using nero showtime... I will give winamp a try today.

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For your mic, I heard that many professional gamers use another headset with a mic integrated on it and hang it on their neck so that they could use the mic

Thanks, I will try this solution. Do you have any recomendation of good mics on cheaps headset?

 

[liamlw]

Zalman clip on mic

it's good enough quality for games / ventrillo / team speak

just clip it onto the headphone wire...

its < $10

 

[rustbucket]

For more sound card info than you can shake a stick at, head over to the Computer as Source forum (Computer Audio (Computers-as-Source Components) - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio)

You might want to hand your credit card over to someone else for safe keeping before you do though

 

[Cry Havoc]

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Originally Posted by Chickenman /img/forum/go_quote.gif For your mic, I heard that many professional gamers use another headset with a mic integrated on it and hang it on their neck so that they could use the mic. Don't quote me on this though, I might be wrong.

It would be a lot simpler to buy a standalone mic. I use the mic from my webcam and it works fine.