Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: ACE on July 01, 2011, 11:08:24 AM
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Title says all I don't wanna spend over $100. Never bought one and I figured some of you guys have :salute
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I've only heard good things about Turtle Beach's headsets. I doubt you can go wrong with them.
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I have the Turtle Beach HPA2 5.1 surround sound headset with mic and love them. I've had them for years with out a problem run off of my old Sound Blaster card.
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If you can find the HPA2 then GET IT! They are recently discontinued and getting hard to find but have true 5.1 surround sound built in to the headphones. A very good quality piece of hardware!
Their replacement is the Z6A - not yet available but coming very soon. Looks like they'll run right around $100. Click on the image for more information.
(http://www.turtlebeach.com/portals/0/products/pc/z6a/home/images/z6a_header.jpg) (http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/pc-gaming-headsets/ear-force-z6a.aspx)
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I bought a Turtle Beach headset and USB sound system about 4 years ago, and it was GREAT. Very high quality sound, and the simulation of spacial positioning was very nice. It was ALMOST like I was really "there".... Made me REALLY mad when a maladjusted ex-neighbor STOLE it from my moving van as I was moving away.
...As I said, I really liked it. The sound quality was the best I've ever experienced from a headset.
HOWEVER, in my [not so humble] opinion, the "5.1 surround sound" claims are somewhat exaggerated. It's true that each earphone has multiple speakers positioned in appropriate spacial positions around the skull of the wearer, and in a headphone situation, I can't figure out a better relationship. But in a "real" situation, a great proportion of the spacial information comes from the natural movement of the listener's head throughout the sound field: A slight movement to the left is, IMHO, sensed with doppler cues, amplitude cues, and phase shifts. Same thing with a slight movement of the head to the right, or forward or back: the listener's EARS are getting closer to some sounds and farther away from others. Head rotation through a natural sound field has the same effect.
That just can't be done in today's headsets, because the sound emitters always move WITH the listener, and in my experience, this significantly degraded the quality of the acoustic spacial interpretation.
This technology can give a pretty good 3d simulation of what is being simulated inside the computer, but it can't model the acoustic effects of what the USER is doing. For that, you need speakers in fixed, optimized locations, spaced around the user.
But for thrilling audio quality, you can't go wrong with Turtle Beach, and you get SOME of the benefit of 5.1 surround sound.
:salute
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I've had my HPA2 for a few months now, and I am *very* happy with it. Great sound, cool 3D effects. :aok
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Is the px21 anygood? For Ps3
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Is the px21 anygood? For Ps3
It looks very similar to the Z6A except it is stereo only instead of surround. Since it's a brand new product I doubt that any of us has any actual experience with it. Are you wanting to use this on a PS3? Usually hardware questions in these forums revolve around PC stuff (to be used with Aces High)...