Headsets...

[Nineballo]

What is the best sounding headset with a decent mic? Try to keep opinions out of this.

[FloRolf]

sound is very subjective so you HAVE to have opinions in here. The Hyper X Clouds are considered to be one of the best price/performance headsets though. 

[Nineballo]

Yea I know just keep it to a minimum. Have some specs to back it up you know...

[EsaT]

What budget you have?

And do you have noisy or quiet environment?

 

After that there are your own preferences:

Do you want maximal details at expense of "fun factor"/neutral bass sounding shy, or some above neural bass impact?

(though controlled bass emphasis is harder for closed headphones)

 

 

5 hours ago, Domi-Nate said:

Try to keep opinions out of this.

Then you should forget gaming brands, because there aren't any actual measurements from those.

Only huge piles of marketing BS costing lot more than money spent on actual product quality...

 

And some headphones could be easily DIY modded with mic.

While ModMic allows turning any headphone to headset.

[Nineballo]

I lean towards bass heavy heads phones but also want the ability to hear the higher pitches.

my budget is around 300$cad give or take.

[EsaT]

If you have own PC/gaming room (without notable background noise) then Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro would do well for above neutral bass punch fun gaming.

Pro Black Limited Edition would come with straight cable:

https://www.amazon.ca/Beyerdynamic-990-Pro-Black-Limited/dp/B010IJ9W1U/

Standard Pro is with coiled cable.

https://www.amazon.ca/beyerdynamic-990-PRO-Studio-Headphones/dp/B0011UB9CQ/

 

For noisy room DT770 is closed design.

(straight cable in 80 ohm version, coiled cable in 250 ohm version)

 

While not the most fashionable looking, design is easy to DIY mod with microphone:

https://imgur.com/gallery/bKU4H

 

Antlion's ModMic is commercialized product for that:

https://www.amazon.ca/Antlion-Audio-ModMic-Attachable-Microphone/dp/B00R98O6R4/

[Nineballo]

That’s funny the pros are  the ones I was looking at.. just didn’t want to have to hassle around with a modmic but it’s fine.

thanks for the suggestions!

[Nineballo]

When you say coiled cable do you mean braided or that it coils up?

[EsaT]

It's coiled to spiral...

This shows it well around one minute: