Good headset for 60 or lower?

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Right now I have a creative something or another, and the microphone is broken. They are great headphones, but I need a headset.

 

[hazabaza1]

Go look up Plantronics on Amazon. Great sound, good quality micrrophone, and actually comfortable if wearing glasses.
That shit's amazing.

 

[sanquin]

Sennheiser. Best brand for a decent price I've been able to find. Sure there are other ones that are better, but that's usually also visible in the price. I got my headset from Sennheiser for 45 euro's.

 

[sanquin]

Get headphones + a mic. If one breaks, you won't have to replace the whole thing, and qualitywise, you will be leagues ahead of every single headset out there.

Not really... A separate mic for the pc you often need to put down on the desk, which can very quickly give a ton of background noise since the mic has to be more sensitive. Headset mics can give great quality sound as long as you set it up right, and don't get a cheap ass 10 dollar one.

 

[sanquin]

You can get one that clips onto your shirt for about 3-5 dollars and it's just about the same as any other mic.

In terms of sound quality, headsets are pure trash. Absolute rubbish. The worst offenders are super expensive gaming headsets that have the sound quality of really cheap 10-30 dollar headphones (while costing more than 100)

Weird...I've always had good quality mics on my headsets. (or at least good enough.) And I've had...3 different ones by now. First one was from creative and cost me around 30 euro's, second one was a trust one I believe and cost me 20, the third one I have now cost me 30 again and is from trust as well.

I've never had problems with people not being able to hear me, the sound crackling or being really poor quality, or background noise.

 

[Frezzato]

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A friend gave me a pair of Turtle Beach Ear Force PX5 headphones and they're excellent. Unfortunately they're out of your price range.

I haven't tried the P11, which falls within your budget, but I'm sold on Turtle Beach now. The earcups on most Turtle Beach headsets are super oversized, (the cups on my PX5 don't touch my ears at all) very comfortable, and the P11 seems to be no exception. The P11 is around $53 now on Amazon.

*edit* For some reason the P11 is listed as being Mac, PC, and PS3 compatible only. I don't see why they wouldn't work for 360 but there's a different model that's made for PC/Mac/360 called the X12.

My PX5 is excellent (and the wireless range is almost 30 feet) but the battery life is terrible. I had to buy several pairs of AA rechargeables. When these die I'm probably going back to a wired headset like the P11.

 

[sanquin]

It's not about the mic. My laptop has a good mic build into it. It's about the sound quality, which is shitty and overpriced.

For comparison, you can get 60$ Grados SR1s, which are low grade audiophile headphones. They will last much longer than headsets and the sound quality is something completely different.

Eh, I prefer my Sennheiser HD 419 for audio only. He asked for a headset though, and wasn't exactly specific. So it's hard to tell how much audio quality matters to him.