Tuesday 29 July 2014

Headphones, Headsets, Earphones - What I Recommend

Headphones, headsets, earphones - what's the difference?

The truth is that it's all about function, what's the purpose of your purchase?

If you're a gamer you're obviously best off with a good headset and the best you can get are probably any form of Razers. I've been gaming for a long time, for comfort, audio quality (literally hearing footsteps of enemies from around the corner) and mic quality these are the best I've used personally.

Not saying there aren't any better, but personal preference says they're the best here.

Sure enough these Razer's look a lot like an old school supersoaker from the 90's but they're epic!

Well what about Headphones?

The best headphones are often in the medium-high price range from experience. You will not catch me buying overpriced beats by dre though. When SkullCandy was at their height of popularity I actually gave in and purchased some Skullcandy HESH headphones.

They were probably the best I'd ever had at the time for sound quality while out on the public bus into college and just generally if I wanted to block out the whole world and damage my ear drums beyond repair.

BOSE would be my first choice if I had the $300 to spare.

As it is today, after my younger sibling sitting on my skullcandies and destroying them I'm using the unfamiliar brand 'Lenco' the Lenco-HP-080's are probably not as cool to look at as my old HESH' by SkullCandy, BUT the sound quality is way, way, way better and for a measly $30.00 I'd say I can't go wrong there.

Earphones... I kind of hate these things. You either use earphones or headphones in my opinion and the truth is that they just fall out of my mutated ears I guess!

Sound quality wise though with these you can't go cheap and have to really spend at least $50.00 to get good value. Sure, you can get ones for less that sound great, but their lifespan isn't so great.

So that's my thoughts on these and thanks Richard for requesting me to do this after my HD PRO reviews.