Choosing a headset
Posted: 2015-07-02 12:22
Here is what I have gleaned about choosing headsets:
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. ]
Anyone with other opinions?
Mac
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. ]
Anyone with other opinions?
Mac
