ProtegeManiac
Headphoneus Supremus
Honestly if it's mostly for gaming just don't bother with a headphone that will require a separate amplifier - your DSP is what will help give you an immersive experience anyway. It's not like a headphone with good soundstage will make farther out sounds seem like they actually are coming from 20m or 30m away from you to begin with, and in one other thread here, somebody on a an AKG K7-- was complaining that those "background sounds" were "too soft," so he resorts to "normalization" to make it sound "natural." Well, duh, the rifle technically is right against your face as you aim, and even that other rifle firing at you from 20m away is still louder than birds chirping. I don't understand what is "natural" about birds being nearly as loud as gunfire, much less why the hell the birds will stay with all that riot happening around the place, unless it's the crows and buzzards waiting for people to finish shooting each other just in time for carrion bird dinner.
Just keep your system simple - use a headphone with not too low (depending on the output impedance of your soundcard) nor too high (300ohms or less) impedance that has high sensitivity, don't bother with how the OS will affects bits, etc, when game audio isn't even high dynamic range audio. They're all in MP3. Open the installation folder of the game, they're all right there.
Just keep your system simple - use a headphone with not too low (depending on the output impedance of your soundcard) nor too high (300ohms or less) impedance that has high sensitivity, don't bother with how the OS will affects bits, etc, when game audio isn't even high dynamic range audio. They're all in MP3. Open the installation folder of the game, they're all right there.
