Help deciding between headphones

[Mark Kaine]

Which of those should I get?

 

 

Use case: music listening, music production, gaming (PC)

 

Headphone pro: my clear favorite, because it can be used with a cable, especially useful for gaming I suppose.  It does look slightly uncomfortable but that could be deceiving...

 

Nothing ear (a): well, seems good but no cable and why is it more expensive than the nothing buds pro 2?

 

Nothing buts pro 2: any downsides to this, battery life seems low or?

 

Additionally both in ears have "gaming mode" and I read the delay is 120ms... which is INSANE.

 

Is that normal for wireless headphones? because wow... (that makes rhythm games 100% unplayable lol). 

[Blue4130]

18 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Which of those should I get?

 

 

Use case: music listening, music production, gaming (PC)

 

Headphone pro: my clear favorite, because it can be used with a cable, especially useful for gaming I suppose.  It does look slightly uncomfortable but that could be deceiving...

 

Nothing ear (a): well, seems good but no cable and why is it more expensive than the nothing buds pro 2?

 

Nothing buts pro 2: any downsides to this, battery life seems low or?

 

Additionally both in ears have "gaming mode" and I read the delay is 120ms... which is INSANE.

 

Is that normal for wireless headphones? because wow... (that makes rhythm games 100% unplayable lol). 

For gaming? 100% wired. Not Bluetooth. Especially if you play rhythm games. At the very least go 2.4g not Bluetooth.

[Mark Kaine]

52 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

For gaming? 100% wired. Not Bluetooth. Especially if you play rhythm games. At the very least go 2.4g not Bluetooth.

Well it's mostly for music and occasional gaming, but yeah... I'm just baffled the delay is still this bad over bt... That was already a problem in 2008 or so... 

 

Also I don't really like that if in ears slightly move you lose a lot of bass suddenly, so I guess over the ears it is... 

[Blue4130]

4 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Well it's mostly for music and occasional gaming, but yeah... I'm just baffled the delay is still this bad over bt... That was already a problem in 2008 or so... 

 

Also I don't really like that if in ears slightly move you lose a lot of bass suddenly, so I guess over the ears it is... 

BT has gotten drastically better, but the issue is both the pc and the headphones need to support the codec. And from what I can tell, widows sucks ass with the low latency codecs.

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

BT has gotten drastically better, but the issue is both the pc and the headphones need to support the codec. And from what I can tell, widows sucks ass with the low latency codecs.

Hmm I see, they (CMF) still say 120ms "latency"... 

 

I mean that's definitely interesting, last time I tried bt audio was on the PSP, and it was god awful, probably several seconds lmao...