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Hello,

I have some sweet Sennheiser stereo phones. I really love those, great sound, no irritation or pain or bleeding when wearing them for hours. Allround awesomeness.

The only thing I miss is good surround sound sometimes. And my heart jumped for joy when I saw that you can buy surround headphones. Does anyone have experience with these? Few questions:

Is the surround sound any good? Do you really! hear left/right/front/back?
Is the headphone confortable? Im used to sennheisers
Any brand you can recommend me?

Money no problem, just want the good stuff :)

Thats what I am curious about. I think it can help alot in FPS when you can hear wether someone is behind of in front of you, or below or above. But since prices of good headphones lie around 200 euro’s or more I wanted to know if someone here has any experience with those.

Not every headphones is capable of producing surround sound. You have a distinct difference between stereo and surround headphones. Normal stereo headphones have only 2 speakers/cones. But true surround headphones supposed to have 5.1 or 7.1 speakers. The trick is to generate sound from different angles to create the true surround sound:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bDhm3MgA_uQJ:gear.ign.com/articles/110/1109044p1.html+difference+between+stereo+and+surround+headset&cd=2&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl&source=www.google.nl..

So the only question for me remains: What type/brand is best :)

Quoted from Andee

Not every headphones is capable of producing surround sound. You have a distinct difference between stereo and surround headphones. Normal stereo headphones have only 2 speakers/cones. But true surround headphones supposed to have 5.1 or 7.1 speakers. The trick is to generate sound from different angles to create the true surround sound:

All sound still goes into a small ear canal though :p

I’m sure someone else can explain this much better, but a good surround headset with 2 speakers can give equal positional audio as well as much better sound quality.

Quoted from ThePledge

I got a Sennheiser PC350 which is awesome and has surround (afaik). Was perfect at LAN, at home and anywhere else for that matter. Don’t know which Sennheiser you got right now – but as Racio said, any sort of proper headphones _should_ have surround.

(don’t forget to change the audio tab in-game to “headphones” instead of stereo, else it won’t work i think)

Yeah, those sennheisers are awesome :)

For some reason I get the best results if I put ingame to 5.1. Could be my audio card, but it works :p

It’s an empty marketing term, I can use it for sennheisers if I want! :p

Well, I think the best way for me to test is go into town and check it out in a audio-store. See if I can find some “surround” headphones and test it. If I do, ill post back here. Thanks for the advise :)

Currently using Roccat Kaves and the sound is decent. A surround sound demonstration disk is provided with the headset allowing you experience the technology. This seems exaggerated because the 5.1 effect seems reduced in games but you’ll notice it still.

Only downside I found is that the headset is rather heavy and clunky