Help Null spend $300 on a Wireless Headset

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I'm looking at these but I'm nervous about bad reviews.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...31-247^26-631-247-TS&percm=26-631-247:$$$$$$$

I currently have a Logitech wireless headset, and this is my second one, but after a year of use the battery often turns to shit. Right now, the battery on my headset barely holds a charge, and when I have it charging it produces a constant whining noise. Shit sucks.

Budget is $300.
+++ Wireless HUGE Plus
++ Audio quality important
++ Mic quality important
- Any reviews that mention fragility are off-putting
 
Is there any particular reason wireless is a huge plus for you Null? Just curious.

That being said, I need to find some new headphones too because my current ones are being held together by duct tape. Seriously.
 
Konstantinos said:
Is there any particular reason wireless is a huge plus for you Null? Just curious.

That being said, I need to find some new headphones too because my current ones are being held together by duct tape. Seriously.
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1) I have destroyed hundreds of dollars in electronics by wheeling over them in my chair. This is almost always due to the cord. I've destroyed USB and 3.5mm jacks, ripped cords directly out of the headset, and crushed the headsets themselves y having them be dragged under by the wheels.

2) I work online and enjoy pacing about the house while in long calls.
 
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I thought you meant buy it for you and was about to tell you that you have a job
 
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I'd go with the Logitechs or the Skull Candys. The Astros look kinda flimsy and I doubt that any of the gaming headsets really sound any different from each other. Astro also appears to be a no name brand. I looked around at wireless headsets with mics and they all look like dog shit.
 
http://en-us.sennheiser.com/search?c=98 pro solutions

You could always put a hanger under your desk and try to not rip the cable out. If I was going to take calls and walk around, I'd just get a wireless office headset and use my nice wired headphones for music/games.
 
I take it you've got a Logi G930? I've had mine for a year (yeep -- year and a half) and have no complaints. The battery life is rather slim, but it always was and I just plug the thing in at night and forget about it. It's a great piece of gear IMO. I don't use it for music (I have Pro Gear™ for that) but for gaming it's hilarious fun.

The 5.8 GHz thing is really nice, that'll keep it from getting stomped on by your wifi / microwave oven / cell phone, etc, but three hundo? I don't know, mang. That price scares me a bit. Have you ever heard / seen / used a pair of these?

(Kind of hypocritical, coming from someone with a $6400 pair of nearfield monitors (pictured, and I KNOW THEY'RE IN THE WRONG PLACE BUT THIS ROOM IS SORT OF SMALL) (The skull is the remains of one of my enemies, now serving as a candy dish and USB hub.)
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In other geeky matters, the 7.1 thing shared by most of these headsets is a real mind-warper, it's done mostly through psychoacoustics. Millisecond-level delays and strange equalization filters, that kind of thing. It sure does work though, and it's really hip to hear things behind you. A 7.1 loudspeaker setup uses eight speakers -- center, left, right, left side, right side, left rear, right rear, and subwoofer, but the headsets do it with only two: one for each ear, plus some heavy software processing.
 
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That is a truly awesome set up.
I am jelly.
 
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I'd go with the Logitechs or the Skull Candys. The Astros look kinda flimsy and I doubt that any of the gaming headsets really sound any different from each other. Astro also appears to be a no name brand. I looked around at wireless headsets with mics and they all look like dog shit.
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I'm just coming in to contradict this and say not to go for the skullcandies. Skullcandy, in my experience, is low quality junk that charges high prices because of brand-name and the shitty skull print they slap onto their stuff. Go for something like Sennheiser or Logitech or corsair instead. A brand that has its price because of a reputation in high quality products, rather than their ability to slap skulls onto heaps of cheap plastic in the shape of headphones.

It might be worth mentioning that I have a plantronics USB headset and I'm personally very satisfied with that one, so that might be a brand to look into as well.
 
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