Since there's so much depressing stuff going on right now I thought it might be fun for everyone to sperg about audio for awhile. I'm very much in the market for upgrading my audio at some point, I don't know if it would be worth doing a speaker setup of some kind.
You might find this funny but I'm having to remember that yes I am living on my own now and I can do stupid shit like this. My only issue of course is that I often tend to game and relax at night, so it would probably pay off more to get some kind of really good quality wireless headphones.
I have a decent pair now, but they're cheapos and they often break because they're made from the crappiest plastic ever. At some point I want to get myself something nice and long lasting to have that premium sound experience. I wouldn't mind doing some gaming and such or testing my own audio on a speaker system too.
I'm veering towards maybe Logitech and Sennheiser brands generally.
Go with Corsairs if you don't want to spring for Sennheisers. Logitech headphones are meh.
Corsair aren't associated with Razer are they? I keep mixing them up, I won't buy from the people who did that bully hunters shit lol.
That was SteelSeries that sponsored that.
SteelSeries also backtracked after that disaster of a livestream, but the fact they endorsed such an idea in the first place means I’m never going to buy any of their products. There are plenty of other options.
Different companies. Razer products tend to be pretty low quality for the price you pay. I don't recall Corsair being involved with bully hunters, but can't hurt to double check.
Thanks, as long as they're not some weird subsidiary of a much larger corp that organised that that's fine, looks like I can maybe pick Corsair generally then. I do see good things about their peripherals online obviously but quite a bit of that is going to be youtuber shilling.
I used to have a VOID RGB Elite, but recently switched to an HS80. The mic quality is noticeably better on the latter, but they're both solid. I don't think the HS80 is worth the price increase from the VOID Elite if audio quality is your primary concern.
Had a pair for Vengeance 2100 headphones that must have lasted me 7+ years of daily use at this point.
Had to do a pair of structural repairs on the rotating joints when started to crack when the plastic got brittle with age. Literally just a little black tape pulled taut to keep them snug. But the fact that they still sound as good as when I got them and I can still get 4+ hours battery life out of them is insane longevity for a midrange headset that still sounds pretty good.
My Corsair HS70s are OK, but the battery shit out within a couple years. Had to buy a third party battery and repair it myself. This is a well documented problem.
I have a set of Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2 Max that I quite like: they sound pretty good, have good battery life, and I like the flip-up-to-mute mic boom. The name is goofy, but I'm happy with them.