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(More customer reviews)PC FPS gamer here. I've used a variety of actual surround sound headsets with mixed results. Some of them sound terrible, some of them break within a month, some of them are great and I can literally hear people's footsteps through the walls and shoot 'em (HEHEHE...) Some were so spectacular, that I'd find myself taking the headset off to react to a sound I heard in my room, only to realize it came from the game. So I know a thing or two about surround-sound headsets from the consumer's end.
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The good news:
Flexible yet tough. RIDICULOUSLY comfortable, seriously, all headsets should be this nice. The mic works beautifully. The sound sounded nice to me (remember, I'm a gamer, not an audio artist). The price seemed okay, it was easy to set up, the mic is removable (yet not prone to droop), and it doesn't suffer from "stupidly-short-cord"syndrome. It would be the best headset I ever used if it weren't for...
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The bad news:
This product was flaunted off as a surround-sound headset. This is NOT a surround-sound headset, this is a STEREO headset with "engulfing" sound. At first, you'd swear it WAS surround sound, but once you go into a 3d environment, it becomes apparent that it is simply stereo.. So it was not quuiiite as advertised. Is that illegal? No. It IS... ear-surrounding sound... But there was definitely some misrepresentation here. While it is my fault for not researching thoroughly enough into other customers reviews... that doesn't mean I'm cool with getting tricked...
If it was a surround sound headset, this product would have gotten a happy 5/5.
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I don't think I'd recommend this even if you ARE looking for stereo. The price would have been steal if it was an actual 5.1 SS or 7.1 SS headset. But STEREO? You don't need to spend 80 dollars on a set of stereo headphones... 20 to 40 dollars will get you a nice, comfortable headset.
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