Hello LTT audio aficionados
As the title saids i'm looking for some advice on a headset or microphone headset combo to replace my current one, which after six years of service is finally giving in to age. I've had this one set since got my first pc so I've never had to lookup what the feature set of a headset was.
I mostly use it for voice communication such as teamspeak, mumble and skype but occasionally also some music and movies. Since some of those voice session last multiple hours I usually like to have some music playing in the background through my speaks.
On the current headset this works perfectly, I head the background music fine and the other people can only barely hear it, even voice activation on teamspeak works flawless with the music on.
I would like to keep doing this setup however all headsets that I can find seem to be closed back which wouldn't allow this kind of use if I'm correct.
Because of this I've been considering getting a separate mic and headset. But the choices here are just so plentiful I don't even know what would work best. My first inclination is just to buy a snowball ICE and hope cardioid keeps out enough of the surrounding sounds.
Now you're probably wondering, what is this current headset well it's a "Logitech Precision PC Gaming Headset" Yes, I know the where terrible but it worked fine for me for a little over six years now. The speaker set I'm using is a logitech Z323. All used in my own room which is quiet. The headset never get's taken outside with the laptop or the sorts.
Oh, and it all needs to work on ubuntu. That unfortunately rules out logitech's new headset series as they need an, unavailable, driver for most of it's functions.
Thanks in advance for any advice or tips you can give me regarding this.