Hey everyone, so now that I have my new computer, Im looking to buy a headset or MIC (probably a headset). Anyways, Ive picked out the headset I'm gonna buy and was curious to see what the community uses (meaning brand and/or type).

I just gave my old mic to my brother so I will buy a new one too. What do you guys suggest?

A rock band mic, plugged into the USB.

I use AKG HSC 271

Very expensive, but the sound is crazy clean and you don't hear the environment around you.

My 4 year old webcam gets the job done well.

Depends on how much your willing to spend.



Damn, your not kidding. It sells regularly for 600$ at Amazon.

yep, it's made for the pro in audio editing so the sound is amazing in detail.

audio... detail?

Once you tryed those headphones, you find out all the greatness of sound "detail".

It's really crazy how much your losing audio "information" with normal headphones.

Holy freaking crap Attila, how the hell do you afford to buy games and 600 dollar headphones?! That cost almost as much as my computer...

Incredibly wealthy and doting uncle?

Damn uncles, I had an incredibly wealthy uncle... he's a damn hermit haha

Na I'm not wealthy, I have a brother that is a master at finding best price and understand that I'm an extreme user of what i use. With those headphone you can change each piece very easily as they break from over use. This mean those headphone will last me many years.

So instead of changing every couple months 20$ headphones that sound bad and break just by looking at them, it's better to get hardware that will last a long time, so on the long term you will end up investing less money then if you choose the cheap headphones that you need to change regularly.

Finally, having a good and clear sound allows you to keep the sound much lower in volume, because to has the same level of detail with bad headphone you need to increase the volume and the higher the volume the greater the harm for your hears. So you will mess up you hears with crappy sound, you will pay for that the rest if your life. And having a good hear is something you can't buy or fix.

You know since many years, people have been using walkman, diskman, Ipod with very bad headphone. As a result they listen to it loud. And right doctors notice an epidemic of early deafness from people around 25-35 years old people as a result.

Everything you do today will have an effect on your future, so... does you future worth 20$ or 600$

You make a good point. I have 150 dollar headphones myself but my mic is external, The sound quality of the headphones is gorgeous whether it's meant for this purpose or not. I am a culprit of listening to music through cruddy earbuds though, very convenient when you go places to not have bulky headphones. I listen to a lot of music... almost constantly but I don't normally play it loudly. I can say sadly that my ears aren't the best already and it is a frightening proposition that deafness may set in early, I'll keep it in mind.

I suddenly feel very ashamed of my iPod ear phones ;D Good thing I ordered that head set.

I have a 30 dollar headset. With me hearing the lag on vent, I sound static-y. Almost like a stormtrooper.
So I like my crappy audio quality.

SnafuAce, has that mic come in yet? We need to play Civ!

Yeah. And when someone isn't on so we don't have to listen to him whine about how much he wants to play Men of War.