Turtle Beach is loving awesome!

[Nickelob Ultra]

Placebo effect. Any professional that works with audio will tell you to stay the forget away from TB.

Rule of thumb, if any headphones are marketed with "gaming" as the focus, they're stuff. It's a gimmick. Any good music headphones will be just as good for gaming.

This.  It's stuffty.  My Sennheiser HD 280 Pros are greater.

BTW, if you want bass, listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vSezJjwP9s
Ignore the fact that it's some fanmade thing from MW2 but when I listen to this with my HD 280s my headphones literally SHAKE from the bass.  It's probably very unhealthy and will make me go deaf with enough exposure but it's loving amazing.

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[Snaffle J. Bean]

Placebo effect. Any professional that works with audio will tell you to stay the forget away from TB.

Rule of thumb, if any headphones are marketed with "gaming" as the focus, they're stuff. It's a gimmick. Any good music headphones will be just as good for gaming.

Not all gaming headphones/headsets are stuff. I have an $80 Creative "gaming" headset and it sounds great (not audiophile great, just regular great). I have a $20 pair of Sennheisers that sound almost exactly the same, though.

Get any Sennheiser headset/headphones and they will be lightyears better than anything turtle beach will ever make.

I listen to this with my HD 280s my headphones literally SHAKE from the bass.  It's probably very unhealthy and will make me go deaf with enough exposure but it's loving amazing.

I never got why people love shaking bass. It gives me a headache and drowns out everything else. Also, are you using a standalone headphone amp or soundcard with a headphone amp in it?

[Nickelob Ultra]

I never got why people love shaking bass. It gives me a headache and drowns out everything else. Also, are you using a standalone headphone amp or soundcard with a headphone amp in it?

To be honest I have no idea which.  I have Genius brand speakers plugged into my line out and my headphones plugged into the line out onto the speakers.  Only then can I get any bass, otherwise if I plug it into my motherboard's standard line out I get pretty normal quality without bass.

[Fracture]

turtle beach is stuff razer is better

[dkamm65]

This.  It's stuffty.  My Sennheiser HD 280 Pros are greater.

Yes.

I should also add, unless you want to do high quality voice overs for commentary on YouTube or something, just get a clip on or desktop mic for super cheap. Online games transmit voice at abysmal quality anyway. Even if you are doing commentary, you can get desktop mics with brilliant quality for relatively cheap (<$150).

Not all gaming headphones/headsets are stuff. I have an $80 Creative "gaming" headset and it sounds great (not audiophile great, just regular great).

Well yeah. I should have worded it better. Marketing towards "gamers" is just an excuse to jack up the price. They're made out as a specialty product that deserves extra cost.

[Nickelob Ultra]

turtle beach is stuff razer is better

No, even Razer is eh.  The only good thing about their Megalodon headset is that it has surround sound in it and an on-board soundchip/dial.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

To be honest I have no idea which.  I have Genius brand speakers plugged into my line out and my headphones plugged into the line out onto the speakers.  Only then can I get any bass, otherwise if I plug it into my motherboard's standard line out I get pretty normal quality without bass.

Yeah. Your speakers are amplifying the signal, giving you more power for the bass. Your headphones are probably 32-64ohms or above, which is what your speakers are outputting. Motherboard outputs are usually low power (because really, why should mobo manufacturers spend more?)

No, even Razer is eh.  The only good thing about their Megalodon headset is that it has surround sound in it and an on-board soundchip/dial.

External sound chips are usually bad. You can get better quality with a <$50 internal soundcard.

[mod-man]

ive heard that turtle beaches arent that good :/

[Soukuw]

BTW, if you want bass, listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vSezJjwP9s
Ignore the fact that it's some fanmade thing from MW2 but when I listen to this with my HD 280s my headphones literally SHAKE from the bass.  It's probably very unhealthy and will make me go deaf with enough exposure but it's loving amazing.

I can tell from my stuffty Skullcandy earbuds that that is stuff audio quailty yet you decide to showcase it for generic bass.

Grats you bought headphones that make you feel bass that must mean they are totally radical and good quailty.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

I can tell from my stuffty Skullcandy earbuds that that is stuff audio quailty yet you decide to showcase it for generic bass.

Low frequency is low frequency, even when compressed.

[Nickelob Ultra]

I can tell from my stuffty Skullcandy earbuds that that is stuff audio quailty yet you decide to showcase it for generic bass.

Grats you bought headphones that make you feel bass that must mean they are totally radical and good quailty.

>...my stuffty skullcandy earbuds...
>...that is stuff audio quality...

I would like to call upon anyone else who has decent headphones to testify with me when I say that the audio quality of the video and the bass levels are far beyond good.

External sound chips are usually bad. You can get better quality with a <$50 internal soundcard.

If I ever buy one I'm going to buy one of the really expensive ones, again if I ever buy one.  For instance, I saw one card that had an EM shield on it or something to reduce interference from the electronics all around it, allowing for absolute true silence.

[Soukuw]

Low frequency is low frequency, even when compressed.

I'm stepping back I realized I'm not in my comfort zone of knowledge of audio to argue about it.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

I would like to call upon anyone else who has decent headphones to testify with me when I say that the audio quality of the video and the bass levels are far beyond good.

It's not really bass. Sounds more low-mid to me. My definition of bass is like really, really low frequency, though.

If I ever buy one I'm going to buy one of the really expensive ones, again if I ever buy one.  For instance, I saw one card that had an EM shield on it or something to reduce interference from the electronics all around it, allowing for absolute true silence.

The Xonar Phoebus? I've been thinking about getting that as a replacement for my Xonar DG when it goes down to at least $150. $200 for a sound card is just crazy.

Also, you're never going to have complete silence with brown townog headphones. There is always going to be noise, no matter how unnoticeable it is.

[bµbbler]

Turtle beach ftw

I have a turtle beach earforce x11

[Victor Von Doom]

Ew turtle bitches