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Mine are about that dark, yes. I can barely tell that they aren't black if I look hard enough under a light.
Also, are those the new metal bands? Yours look just engraved, but mine is filled in with blank (paint?) where the engraved areas are. O_O
Do earlobes rub against the metal with the cutout?
I actually have no idea whether or not these are the new bands. Idk, maybe these pictures can help you determine.
They definitely don't look like they have any ink/paint in the engravings. If they look fuzzy to you, it's not the camera, the actually look like that. Mine were not done really well at all.
My ears don't touch this area, if that's the place you're talking about. I don't think the hole is big enough. My ears do touch the outer padding though, and since it's not very soft, it doesn't feel too great. Also, I just touched the cut out area and it's definitely plastic. Not metal.
For anybody who asked about the whole ad700 thing, yes, I will definitely compare the two in more detail once I can get some good time in with them. I play with what is left of the competitive crowd for Unreal Tournament 3 and Cod 4, so those will be the games I'll primarily comment on the positioning with.
In a partial response to bunit, yes, I do use dolby headphone for the ad700, but I haven't tried it for the fa-011's yet. With the ad700's, I just thought dolby headphone made positioning in gaming a little bit more easy to understand, but it didn't necessarily improve it too drastically, maybe a little. The best way I could describe dolby headphone, at least with the ad700, is that it sounds like being inside a small spherical room with speakers on your sides, on top, below, behind, and in front. So direction of sounds just make make a little bit more sense as to where they are actually coming from. Stereo with the ad700 is not really worse for positioning in games, it just takes some getting used to. With dolby headphone, it just makes sense right away because it sounds like the sound is coming from speakers outside your head. It makes music extremely bad though, and the ad700 is bad for music to begin with. Terrible midrange. Right off the bat, even without an amplifier, the fa-011's are orders of magnitude better for music than the ad700's. Not sure about games yet, but I'll test that soon.
Just don't get the turtle beaches, they were terrible for everything imo. The positioning in games, although slightly improved from my speakers(z2300's, garbage), was really bad on the clarity. You could hear where people were, but you had no idea where they were headed or what they were doing(running, jumping, reloading, crouching, etc), because the sound clarity was so bad. Don't even get me started on how bad they were for music. Just stick to stereo headphones dude, they're much better. Years back I used to have those trashy tritton ax 51 pro's, and those were just as worthless. All gaming headphones stink, bottom line. The ad700's were worlds better for positioning in games than anything I've ever used. We'll have to see about the fa-011's.
