I mostly play open world games such as the Horizon series, The Elder Scrolls series, God of War, Assassin’s Creed, etc. You get the picture.
I have used consumer grade PAs (colloquially “speakers”), studio monitors, in-ear headphones and now, finally, I am trying out over-ear headphones.
I don’t remember what PAs I used to use, but my studio monitors were the German Adam A5X. Gaming with these, I could feel the ambience, soundtrack or whatever sound resonating in my chest. Boss battles were intimidating on a new level. The A5Xs are now “retired”, working part-time for my pseudo home theater (just an old T480 - connected to a TV - being used as a media player to play back Linux ISOs that reside on my server). The in-ear headphones were the, again, German Sennheiser IE-900. The sound was out of this world. At least the balance. The immersion level of any game just skyrocketed. But the immersion was somehow limited or confined to my ears or to their immediate surroundings. Now, finally, I am gaming with the, yet again, German over-ear headphones DT 700 PRO X of beyerdynamics. The sound quality of the Adam A5X and the immersion of the Sennheiser IE-900 are all there, but instead of being limited to my ears, it’s like the sound is perforating all the cavities in my head. I can taste the sound. The band or orchestra seems to be right there, behind me. I don’t think I will be going back to anything else. Hot damn.
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Depends on the game. If audio is a huge part I use my headset, but most games I play these days I have on mute or close to (old school Runescape, Minecraft, TrackMania). Baldur’s gate 3 and counter strike 2 are both fine on my laptop speakers although they do fairly good directional audio as long as it isn’t in a horrible room for audio.
When I played Forza horizon that was mostly on mute too, or at least quiet enough to not be the primary audio.
I’ve tried using a headset for games but after like an hour or so it just feels like shit.
I enjoy the sound of game by turning the volume all the way down to 0
I’ve pretty much only ever used headphones when playing games. Never been much of a console gamer, always PC. At this point I almost exclusively use my HD 800s. They’re absolutely amazing headphones and the sound stage is incredible for gaming. Far better than any “gaming” headset I’ve used in the past.
Holy sh*t 300 ohms?! How do you drive these things xD That’s awesome though! Yeah, I actively stay away from anything marketed as “gaming”.
been using HD650s for a real long time, any decent quality amp will have no problem; my Schiit Magni can handle 600
Since I do audio stuff, for my headphones I use a Shure SRH440A. It does a very good job from what I can tell and for my regular speakers I use a Logitech G560 but I’m thinking of changing these out for a set of studio monitors since they’re randomly disconnecting all the time.
I have the Hifiman HE400se headphones. They’re open-back, so pretty wide soundstage. They use planar magnetic drivers, unlike most headphones which use dynamic drivers. Both technologies can be good, but the construction is different and they have different strengths. Here’s an explainer from rtings
DT-990 Pros. Open backed so I can hear kids if they need me, but lovely sound when it’s quiet.
If I only my 3080 didn’t sound like a jet engine
I bought mine a couple of months ago. Worth every cent.
30 series undervolt pretty well. You could lose like no performance and save like 20% on power/however that scales noise wise.
It’s been on my list, I will try thanks!
I second this! While I’m unsure how I would do this on Linux, when I was using Windows, I even gained performance from undervolting!
Sweet! My closed headphones isolate even the sound of the doorbell, so people kind of need to text me if they plan to visit while I’m gaming xD
Which model/maker of the 3080 do you have? I have the Asus TUF Gaming OC version and while it sounds like an inspired fan, it’s not quite a jet engine… But then again, I only game at 1080p (but with ultra settings) because with my 24 inch monitor I kind of have a good pixel density anyway ^^
It’s an unlikely scenario, but if you have a doorbell that can be “connected” to, like ring or aqara you could set a light (hue, inner, generic ZigBee etc) to flash when the doorbell rings. I had a rube Goldberg setup for the time before I discovered open back monitors 😀
I’ll be real, I don’t know the manufacturer because it was a second hand pre built. An old hp omen that I replaced mobo and CPU (and somehow I didn’t take note… getting lazy on my old age)
I do roll 1440p and whatever settings get me 120 FPS. Nothing competitive
At my gaming PC, I got Logitech G560 speakers and also a G733 headset. Both were gifts. I slightly prefer the headset (used to gaming with headphones after decades), but the speakers are nice to give my ears a temporary rest plus them lighting up the wall behind the monitor is cool.
On the TV, an Ultimea soundbar + rear speakers set. Cheapest I could find with surround where subwoofer and rears are wireless as due to my living room layout running cables there would be impractical. Not the best soujd but worlds better than the TV itself and good enough for all my gaming needs.
Sweet! Didn’t even know Logitech makes speakers! Wireless sound has come a long way, in my opinion. I don’t think one would notice any difference playing games anyway. Really wish I could try gaming with a subwoofer! :)
S760D (5.1) from edifier. It punches far above its weight imo. I use a sennheiser pc37x if I need to be in voice chat but as good as headphones sound I don’t necessarily want to be wearing them all day.
Holy crap that’s one big package! The immersion must be great with the surround! :D
