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any recommendations for adding mic to hd 598?

I recently purchased Cloud II and I paid 124 with taxes and it also came with Rainbow Six Seige PC code which was a good plus. Fast forward to today, Microsoft store canada has Vmoda M100 for 150 CAD which is the lowest it has ever been. Now I am wondering if Vmoda M100 are worth the extra cash over the Cloud 2 and how much better are they in terms of sound quality? Since I game on PC, PS4(Most of the times) and Xbox One Another issue is I either have to get a wireless headset like Playstation Gold Wireless or get astro mix amp so I dont have a long cable running from the receiver to my couch. Playstation Gold are for 80 bucks right now (not sure how much better are Clouds II). Other route is go for mixamp which I cannot find separately anywhere in Canada and its costing me 150ish from their website while Astro A40 with Mixamp is 200+tax here. So much confusion!! I also think if I want a better gaming and music headset, I should go with Senheiser Game Zero but thats gonna cost around 250ish with taxes. Advice? Update: Also purchased Senheiser HD 598 for 110, thats crazy deal! Also got Sony Gold Wireless Headset for 50 so now I have 4 headphones!

I got the monitor today, paid 1k with taxes. Holy!!! Its super amazing!!!! Blown away. I tried ps4 and xbox one with it and it scales really well (monitor scaling is spot on). Good job there philips. Also I am running GTX 670 SLI and I am able to run mad max at ultra settings (anistropic filtering - off) @4k 60fps, same with GTA 5 (High settings and AF - off) @4k 60fps. Loving it so far, got no complaints. I also calibrated it using ICC profile from TFTCentral. This is so worth upgrading. Multitasking is ease with this monitor. Highly Recommend!!!

Thank you for the reply. Scaling 1:1 is also a good feature. I think I am going to check both upscaling by my sony receiver(30hz) and upscaling of the monitor (which is next to negligible). If there is no difference then I will keep it else I will end up waiting, I am really pissed to why this monitor does not have HDMI 2.0 since if its important for lot of things. If the scaling of 1080p display to 4k by monitor = 4k scaling by receiver then I will for sure keep it since most of the 4k stuff if I ever stream will be from the pc and not any other source. But damn this is annoying if you want to use your receiver. That actually sounds like a great idea if I can find the cable HDMI2 to DP but I really doubt my receiver will do any better scaling than the monitor. http://www.bizlinktech.com/industries/detail.aspx?Type=100&CId=1&Id=158&R=1 Looks like the adapter is already in the works and it will be made eventually so I guess this will be a good option to get 4k 60hz via receiver only if receiver actually does a good job at upscaling.

If you connect any source like PS4 or a 1080p source to this monitor, does it upscale it to 4K automatically? I have a Sony STR-DN850 receiver that is 4k capable (has hdmi 2.0), Now if I connect PS4 to this monitor via receiver and my receiver upscales the content to 4k, would I be able play games at 60fps on the monitor? I know monitor has hdmi 1.4 which does only 4k 30hz. Other option is I can turn off scaling on the receiver but I am not sure how 1080p content is scaled on this 4k screen by the monitor, just want to make sure it fills the screen. I have PC, Xbox One and PS4 but want to make sure I can use with consoles as well without any issues. Thanks in advance!

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