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Sennheiser Exits Gaming Headphone Business (www.anandtech.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Technically the successor owner of the gaming brand.

Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company's gaming products...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'd take a proper lavalier mic with proper studio headphones over an unwieldy and crappy gaming headset with boom mic any day.

Or better yet, a proper THX reference level capable surround sound system and tactile transducers over any headphones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or even just dt-990s + modmic. Still better than any gaming headset ever built.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But that combination costs around 230 Swiss Franks versus 75 Swiss Franks for a Hyperx Cloud Alpha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Superlux HD 660 Pro / Samson SR850 / AKG K240 + 15€ Lavalier Mic = Better than HyperX Wolkendingsi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An omnidirectional mic 20 cm downwards from the persons mouth is supposed to sound better than a little boom mic right in front of them? That's not very convincing.

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