Good quality gaming headset?

[charbel1011]

What gaming headset should i get im looking for good sound clarity in games and have a good build i didn't have any luck with my hyperx cloud alpha i sold it the microphone was horrible. budget:150$-170$ ish

[The_Askinator]

Kraken or Kraken Pros, also Corsair Voids are really good.

[lavablade02]

8 minutes ago, The_Askinator said:

Kraken or Kraken Pros, also Corsair Voids are really good.

My brother has the Kraken USBs and they're terrible. Mic sounds bad, and audio isn't great. I'd personally go for something like HyperX or Sehnheiser with the Cloud series or the G4me series

[Halazar]

you could buy some good headphones with that money and use a modmic, have you tought of that possibility?

[The_Askinator]

24 minutes ago, lavablade02 said:

My brother has the Kraken USBs and they're terrible. Mic sounds bad, and audio isn't great. I'd personally go for something like HyperX or Sehnheiser with the Cloud series or the G4me series

your experience is most likely is an isolated issue. Many pro-gamers and tech savvy people use the Krakens.. I had a crappy LG TV before, but their OLEDS are still the best in the business, so it's not their fault that just one unit out of a couple thousand was not good.

[lavablade02]

1 minute ago, The_Askinator said:

your experience is most likely is an isolated issue. Many pro-gamers and tech savvy people use the Krakens.. I had a crappy LG TV before, but their OLEDS are still the best in the business, so it's not their fault that just one unit out of a couple thousand was not good.

still, there are objectively better headphones than them at the price range

[charbel1011]

1 hour ago, Halazar said:

you could buy some good headphones with that money and use a modmic, have you tought of that possibility?

May u tell me more about it please? and about the modmic it's been a while and people keep telling me to do that? i can't find modmic on amazon which one u mean? can u link it to me? and which good headset do u consider? i buy my stuff from amazon if u can link me?

[Halazar]

21 minutes ago, charbel1011 said:

May u tell me more about it please? and about the modmic it's been a while and people keep telling me to do that? i can't find modmic on amazon which one u mean? can u link it to me? and which good headset do u consider? i buy my stuff from amazon if u can link me?

I'm gonna assume you're american and use amazon.com;

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=modmic

As you can see there are three models; the cheapest one doesn't have a mute fuction, and the more costly one is a newer and better version.
It works that you simply attach it to any headphone(they are designed to be compatible with almost* any headphone), connect the jack to your computer, and voila! your headphone is now an headset.

The quality of the sound is usually superior to the one you find in headsets, and thats why they're so famous/reccomended.

As far as what kind of headphones, it depends from what kind of games you play;

if you're like me and you're an avid FPS player, you may want headphones with a wide -soundstage-; meaning that, when you hear a sound, you can more accurately pin point the direction it came from in your head(assuming games are optimized to do so unlike, for example, PUBG and its shitty sound engineering),.

This means, usually, choosing "open back" headphones, meaning that sound may leak a little from your headphones and allow people nearby you to listen to what you're doing, and they also usually provide pretty poor sound isolation, meaning that you will hear whats happening around you; for this reason, open back headphones are considered bad for commuting/outside, or if you live in an house with much noise.

As far as sounds go:

1. Bass is pretty explanatory, and in games bass is tipically explosions, "thump"s, etc.
2. Mid is generally sounds like voices, sounds that aren't too deep or too sharp
3. High/Treble are generally loud/shap sounds, like gunshots, screeching, etc.;

Therefore its useful, if you play FPS's, to have headphones with good mid and treble, so that you can hear footsteps and gunshots better than your adversaries; your music may suffer tho, since nowadays music has alot of bass into it(unless you're REALLY into guitar solos and the like, then you're safe)

  ^ just as a curiosity; thats why most headset sound like crap while listening to music, because they try to focus on being good for videogame use... and use crap hardware and engineering compared to actual headphones, of course.

Heres a list done by the reddit community on how to choose a good headphone for your budget. You might still want to check out prices on the amazon, coz they change, or there are sales, etc.

https://sites.google.com/view/headphoneadvice/home
 

[mihailc]

@charbel1011 Nowadays Sennheiser makes gaming headsets too.

https://en-us.sennheiser.com/gaming-headset-gsp-300

https://en-us.sennheiser.com/gaming-headset-gsp-350

 

But, Hyperx are usually good, have you considered your drivers might be at fault or some wire problem?

[The_Askinator]

For 50 dollars the HyperX stingers are really good.

[AMDNeko]

HyperX, Sennheiser Game, Plantronics RIG 800HD/HS, G933, or Void Pros. Krakens are absolute garbage...my pink ones went right back into the box it was horrendous Razer couldnt pay me to wear any of their cans besides maybe the Tiamat..most everything else is too. The RIG 800HD or HS though to me are king of wireless and the Sennheisers are king of wired.