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Headset without Microphone Latency

Vejling

Commendable
Mar 9, 2016
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Bought a pair of Steelseries Arctis 5 and returned them immediately, after learning about the 0.5 seconds delay, when hearing your own voice. I have never had this issue with Razer or Logitech. Is it a common flaw in gaming headset theese days? Is it somehow possible, prior to buying a new headset, to learn which headsets has this kind of latency ?

/Jan Vejling
Denmark
 
If these were USB-connected headsets, this could be the issue.

Have a decent on-board or PCIe sound card, and get analogue headsets.
 
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