KlNSON
New Head-Fier
- Joined
- Sep 10, 2010
- Posts
- 9
- Likes
- 0
Hey all, I was directed to this sight by a friend as being the guru place for headphones. I could use some advice on options for mainly 360 gaming, slight music, and slight movie viewing. I am very new to headset usage for gaming, so please be easy on me! Here goes..
It was suggested by a friend while playing 360 fps's that I explore a headset with surround for some obvious advantages. Cranking my 5.1 speakers for the same purpose is not an option atm. I started looking into x41's but have read a decent amount of testimony that they are crap. I narrowed my choices down to ad700's or hpx's as they seem to provide decent positional cues with tolerable music/movie performance. I would obviously need a virtual surround device to couple with one of these for the 360. I was checking out pics of the hpx's and they looked rather familiar. I remembered I had bought a similar-looking headset before that had crapped out on me. They were from buy.com and exactly named: Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA 5.1 Surround Headset. When I had plugged them in one day, they produced very loud buzz and I just had buy.com credit me. I was too naive/young at the time, but this was probably the amp being shot. They seem to look exactly like the hpx's, just differently colored. I can't really find much info on them. Would these be comparable to the hpx's if I paired them with the mixamp? It is likely the headset is still working properly, just the hpa amp is unusable. I would just like to know if these hpa's with a mixamp would be comparable to my choices as I would like to spend the least amount possible and is the mixamp all I would need to get these functioning?
Any advice is welcome and thank you in advance.
It was suggested by a friend while playing 360 fps's that I explore a headset with surround for some obvious advantages. Cranking my 5.1 speakers for the same purpose is not an option atm. I started looking into x41's but have read a decent amount of testimony that they are crap. I narrowed my choices down to ad700's or hpx's as they seem to provide decent positional cues with tolerable music/movie performance. I would obviously need a virtual surround device to couple with one of these for the 360. I was checking out pics of the hpx's and they looked rather familiar. I remembered I had bought a similar-looking headset before that had crapped out on me. They were from buy.com and exactly named: Turtle Beach Ear Force HPA 5.1 Surround Headset. When I had plugged them in one day, they produced very loud buzz and I just had buy.com credit me. I was too naive/young at the time, but this was probably the amp being shot. They seem to look exactly like the hpx's, just differently colored. I can't really find much info on them. Would these be comparable to the hpx's if I paired them with the mixamp? It is likely the headset is still working properly, just the hpa amp is unusable. I would just like to know if these hpa's with a mixamp would be comparable to my choices as I would like to spend the least amount possible and is the mixamp all I would need to get these functioning?
Any advice is welcome and thank you in advance.
