You need stereo for the excellent audio system we have, localizing buddies, enemies, and events. You want light weight for comfort perhaps more than an hour.
With Windows 7 avoid USB headsets due to delay latency hearing your own voice. That is confusing. There may be a Win 7 solution for this with USB, I wasn't sure. Google for Windows headset latency. Some say Windows 8.1 is fine for latency with a USB headset, when properties are correct for playback of your voice. I suspect wireless headsets might have latency issues with playback of your voice, but haven't seen comments about it.
I have ordered a Sennheiser PC 141. This is an over-the-neck, on-the-ear analog-corded headset. I am getting it like new for $40 from Amazon, which is $10 off new list price. This is compact enough for travelling but does not fold, much like my favorite cheap listening only headphones. Radio Shack had perhaps a passable over-the-head on-the-ear corded headset, but not BestBuy. I am a bald old dude, so over-the-neck is more comfortable for me.
[ Yes. I am an actual Vietnam Vet. My service was mostly in Navy schools, and then at shore duty in Hawaii. My fourth year I was aboard the USS Constellation (Aircraft carrier). However what little time I spent in the war zone was largely in a rare air-conditioned space key-punching, and helping make sure the dudes dodging bullets for me had enough of what they needed. I have been seriously grateful to the true bullet dodgers ever since. ]
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