Headphones for silent gaming.

[The Milk Man 09]

Recently I decided that instead of a full HT system I am just going to buy a pair of headphones to get decent sound quality better than what is going to be on my 20" Vizio and also help deepen my gaming experience with the added perk of silence.

Right now I am considering the TRITTON TRI-GA600 Audio Xtreme 360 - headset. It has real 5.1 instead of simulated, because of the fact that I has 4 speakers in each side. Has anyone used these or does anyone have any other suggestions for me. As always I am open to suggestions. Thanks I will add a Link to circuit city because that is where I would be buying it from.

Tritton Gaming Headphones

[Jagger]

I have / use them. My only real complaint has to do with the mic. The mic itself seems to work fine, but it doesn't have it's own speaker / volume control. In order to hear you have to set the 360 to output voice through the speakers. Voice then goes through the center channel on the headphones.. which makes hearing people really hard sometimes. Especially in games like Crackdown that don't have any audio settings you can turn down.

Other than that, I'm happy with them.

[The Milk Man 09]

Is the Hardness of hearing people a big enough deal to make you suggest I get something Like the turtle beach headsets?

Does the surround really seem almost like a real surround system, I know it would never have the same depth but does it least give a good sense of direction?

[Jagger]

Originally Posted by The Milk Man 09

Is the Hardness of hearing people a big enough deal to make you suggest I get something Like the turtle beach headsets?

I've never used any turtle beach headsets.. so I can't personally say if they're better or not. But when I was reading up on mine before I got them, seems quite a few people though that these were the better set.

Originally Posted by The Milk Man 09

Does the surround really seem almost like a real surround system, I know it would never have the same depth but does it least give a good sense of direction?

I'd say it does. Again, I'm happy with them.

[The Milk Man 09]

Thanks Jagger this helped me a lot I'm going to pick up a Pair next week If they have them at circuit city.

[lovekeiiy]

I don't know if you can somehow use M$ headpiece or not, but I would say get some good headphones. I suggest checking out headphone.com I've been using my Sennheiser600 with my cosmic headphone amp and been happy. My PC speakers sound crappy and the sub is partially blown (sounds like the voice coil is trashed). I have used the headphones with using my earpiece on the phone. My earpiece for the phone is a etonymic, so it's a ear cannal model.

[namehater]

i use the turtlebeach earforce x2, they do a nice job simulating surround sound i think, but it has the same volume issues as the tritton ones you are looking at, i went with them because i had to buy from bbuy and thats the best wireless that they had, which was a must for me

[The Milk Man 09]

Originally Posted by namehater

i use the turtlebeach earforce x2, they do a nice job simulating surround sound i think, but it has the same volume issues as the tritton ones you are looking at, i went with them because i had to buy from bbuy and thats the best wireless that they had, which was a must for me

Yea I am not as concerned with wires as I am with having to buy batteries so if the turtle beach has the same volume problem as the Trittons then I will just go With the Trittons because they offer real surround.

Thanks everyone for your help. still open for suggestions if anyone has any more.

[SpartanZypher]

I believe the GA600 is the only 5.1 Headset compatible with the 360, that I've been able to find. I haven't had the oppurtunity to try them or the any of the Earforces. But I'd go with the GA600.

I'm surprised Turtle Beach hasn't made a true 5.1 headset yet. I was hoping the X3 would've been it, but nope, just an upgraded X2.

[The Milk Man 09]

Yea I also dont want to buy batteries, and do not mind wires so I believe that the GA600 will be my set because having compatibility with 360 is important but so is having 5.1 instead of stereo.

[Rhino Chaser]

MilkMan-- I use a pair of Trittons. I was trying to finish a review on them and got completely side tracked when we started our site up.

Here are a few points in regards to the company and their porduct:

They have excellent customer service and their techs are gamers.

I got so hammered one night that I sat on mine and broke them. I called Tritton and they replaced them. Amazing!

I stopped using my wireless stereo Sennheisers shortly after purchasing these and haven't used them since.

Since there is only 1 input I use my reciever to to the audio switching on them so that I can use them to watch movies, etc as well.

The 1 flaw I have found is in regards to communicating. You basically set voice to spearkers in your 360 dashboard and there is no seperate speaker for voice. So in loud settings the voice communication audio gets drowned out by in game audio. Some games are worse than others, and sometimes it may just be certain maps. The train in Gears for expample really screws with my ability to hear people talking. In a game like BF2 when someone is shooting rockets or a tank cannon...forget about it.

All in all they are the best solution that I have found to date. If you find a better one keep me posted.

They keeps my lady from getting up after midnight and glaring at me, and I can still get a decent sound stage...good enough for me.

[The Milk Man 09]

I ended up going with the Turtle beach x1 headset, I really like them they work well with both my computer and with my xbox. When it comes to communication the Turtle beach are probably better but sound quality trittons are most likely hands down better.

[SpartanZypher]

The Earforce series are really great headsets for the 360, and I would've recommended them myself. But they don't offer surround sound. I was really hoping that they would've made the X3's a surround sound set, but nope just an upgraded X2. There's always the X4 .