Gaming/music headphones with microphone under 60£ (75€)

[Howkey]

I recently retired my "Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma" which have great sound but the cable broke after 2 years.

Im looking for new headset with great sound (creative was awesome, i dont want some bass-boost vibrating nonsense, just clean real full sound) with mic, probably not wireless since i wear them 16 hours a day sometimes (with small breaks ofcourse) and the battery would be dead after a year of constant daily usage.

Should be under 60 £ (75€), maximum 85 £ (110€)

 

[BlueFireZ]

There is the Steelseries siberia v2 and v3 and Corsair vengeance H2100. These are the best headsets in that range

 

[Howkey]

And is it comparable to Creative / Sennheiser sound quality ? I actually personnally dont like the looks of Steelseries, but the corsair looks nice. I got to test them somewhere ... i have a Creative Sound Core3D quad-core audio processor in my PC but i always find 3,5 jacks to be bad compared to USB, even though they are golden(ed). Tough choice really, 3,5mm and Creative Core3D or Corsair with Dolby Headphone.
BTW the H2100 are wireless or am i missing something? What about the 1500 ?

What about A40 ? But i cant find them in my country.

 

[sora]

The Corsair H2100 are wireless but it shouldn't really matter; the battery is strong.

 

[BlueFireZ]

I totally forgot about the sennheisers, they have some of the best sound with a good sound card. So your best choices now are the corsair and the sennheisers, and the astro a40 (if you can find them).

 

[Howkey]

I just did a little test with that mobo sound card i have i actually find out that its much better than the Creative USB soundcard so i probably will go for some non-soundcard headphones. What i can find out are these:

Corsair Vengeance 1500 for £74 (basicly 1400 +£8 for the soundcard)
STEELSeries Siberia v3 for £67
Corsair Vengeance 1400 for £66
[strike]Sennheiser PC 330 for £61 - but it gets so many "uncomfortable" reviws and i can see the pads are too narrow[/strike] - its on-ear i want over ear
HyperX Cloud Gaming Headset for £45 on discount (normal price seems £60 in my country) - this is my favourite so far
[strike]Logitech G230 for £45[/strike] poor contrustion
Plantronics Gamecom 788 for £42

Astro a40 would be over £200 with shipping

PS: I know my budget is quite limited for "better sounds".

 

[BlueFireZ]

I would rule out the logitech, which has very poor construction, the HyperX Cloud which has not very good sound, maybe the sennheiser because you say the pads are thin, but i was on the corsair website and i saw that the 1500 is usb ,not 3.5 and im not sure if you use your soundcard with your motherboard then. That leaves you with the plantronics 788, Steelseries siberia v3, and Corsair vengeance 1400 and maybe 1500.

 

[Howkey]

I went to a sound shop (proper music shop where i buy stuff for work) and made a small consultation. They had all of them except Siberia in stock (they also sell PC components, dont ask me why). All of them were quite same with normal PC Realtek but than they used the soundcard that i have and man .... the HyperX got a crisp basses yet still got the mid and high very good. Corsair was actually the same 1500 and 1400 with Realtek with some 7.1 soft. Plantronics they said have problem with braking in that metal-plastic bolt. So im still deciding but probably will go for discounted HyperX because the sound is mediocre on normal PC but with good soundcard they have 53mm compared to most 40mm sound much better. Also i can easily tweak the lows with EQ on my card. Even the mic sounded good which i didnt expect.

If i save some money next year ill probably buy some studio headphone for music alone but these go for gaming with friends probably. THanks for help BlueFireZ

 

[BlueFireZ]

Happy to help! I have been wrong on the HyperX's, sorry about that.