Best 5.1 Surround Sound Headset for PS3

AIR-AUSSIE

NotorietyH wrote: »

I got them yesterday from Amazon.com worked out cheap enough. They charged $18 for shipping which I think may have been a mistake as tehy tried to charge me 25 for shipping a game the other day. Either way they arrived within two days and they are frickin' fantastic. I love them! They're USB powered so you don' have to worry about plug adapters or anything.

http://www.amazon.com/Programmable-Wireless-Surround-Bluetooth-Playstation-3/dp/B003O6N64Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301055914&sr=8-1

I was contemplating buying from there, but I thought I'd get charged for customs. I'm guessing you didnt?

NotorietyH

AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »

I was contemplating buying from there, but I thought I'd get charged for customs. I'm guessing you didnt?

Nope I don't think so anyway. Amazon take a deposit for customs charges, but I think I got away with it! The DHL guy didn't mention it or anything anyway. I ordered a set of Rock Band cymbals from tehm a few weeks back too and didn't get caught with customs.

I'd recommend ordering from 'em anyway. I think the customs deposit was 40 dollars or something so it'll at worst probably work out a the same it'd cost you to get from the UK. Ordered them Monday night, they shippped late Tuesday night and arrived Thursday morning.

Think it's cost me around 200 euro in the end.

That_Guy

NotorietyH wrote: »

Nope I don't think so anyway. Amazon take a deposit for customs charges, but I think I got away with it! The DHL guy didn't mention it or anything anyway. I ordered a set of Rock Band cymbals from tehm a few weeks back too and didn't get caught with customs.

I'd recommend ordering from 'em anyway. I think the customs deposit was 40 dollars or something so it'll at worst probably work out a the same it'd cost you to get from the UK. Ordered them Monday night, they shippped late Tuesday night and arrived Thursday morning.

Think it's cost me around 200 euro in the end.

Awesome. Really didn't wanna wait until May.

I don't suppose it came with an optical cable?

AIR-AUSSIE

Well I've ordered a pair from there. Hopefully I won't get charged the extra customs fee.

Cheers NotorietyH.

Headshot

AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »

Well I've ordered a pair from there. Hopefully I won't get charged the extra customs fee.

Cheers NotorietyH.

Reply when you get them and if you have been charged by customs please

NotorietyH

That_Guy wrote: »

Awesome. Really didn't wanna wait until May.

I don't suppose it came with an optical cable?

Yup it comes with an optical cable.

Fingers crossed ye slip through the customs net! :P

AIR-AUSSIE

Headshot wrote: »

Reply when you get them and if you have been charged by customs please

I was talking to the delivery guy there apparently I'll have to pay €30 in customs. I was asleep when he called so I'll have to wait until tomorrow. to find out for definite.

But even if I do need to pay for customs, it'll end up the same price if I bought them from the uk, even slightly cheaper. So still worth it.

Headshot

AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »

I was talking to the delivery guy there apparently I'll have to pay €30 in customs. I was asleep when he called so I'll have to wait until tomorrow. to find out for definite.

But even if I do need to pay for customs, it'll end up the same price if I bought them from the uk, even slightly cheaper. So still worth it.

Thanks for the reply Aussie, ya reply again tomorrow to make sure its 30 euro

Id be happy enough to pay the 30 euro for customs tbh

AIR-AUSSIE

When you're making your own squad the size is four I think. But does Battlefield add people with the same clan tags to the same team? think I heard that somewhere. If so we could use the BIE tag again.

Depending on what numbers we have maybe we could split ourselves in squads. And maybe have higher ranked players as the pple who organise the squads before the game.

But if we have over 12 I's say it'd easier to set up a private match.

That_Guy

Headshot wrote: »

Thanks for the reply Aussie, ya reply again tomorrow to make sure its 30 euro

Id be happy enough to pay the 30 euro for customs tbh

Likewise. I really don't want to have to wait until May. How much in € roughly is it?

AIR-AUSSIE

That_Guy wrote: »

Likewise. I really don't want to have to wait until May. How much in € roughly is it?

According to the invoice I have it'll cost €223 in total including the customs charge. Which isn't half bad considering that other site is charging £199.

That_Guy

AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »

According to the invoice I have it'll cost €223 in total including the customs charge. Which isn't half bad considering that other site is charging £199.

Excellent. Cheers mate. Definitely picking that up this week.

AIR-AUSSIE

Right to let you guys i know. I got my headphones delivered today. Had to pay the courier €38.82 for customs. However I had already paid this to amazon as a deposit so I emailed amazon and they said I'd get a refund.

So total price is €223. Which is just as cheap as they'll be sold here

Soby

So tempting to get these when ya have the cash...but so dear

The Freeman

Soby wrote: »

So tempting to get these when ya have the cash...but so dear

ya can gt the Tritton AX Pro for 110 pounds from amazon currently, very good price.;)

Varik

How does the tritton take the 3.5mm inputs and the Optical/Digital Input, is it one or the other at a time or can i have both connected with some option to change between them.

Varik

Decided on PX21 with dss mixamp.

Headshot

sorry for the bump just wanted to know how are the PX5 going

was it worth it?

Beefy78

Yeah i'd be very interested in hearing feedback on these. I want surround sound but living in a flat I'm not sure I'd make the most of a decent set-up. These seems like a great alternative if they're any good.

AIR-AUSSIE

I'm probably not the best to get a review off as I haven't had surround sound earphones before, so I've nothing to compare to.

I'm very happy with them work very well and sound is great. I've had them for about a month and a half now I think.

I use them mainly for Battlefield, FIFA, Black ops. Great surround sound in battlefield many times I've heard someone sneaking up behind me and I have turned around in time to kill them before they get my tags. Crowd noises are a lot clearer in FIFA too so you get a more immersive atmosphere. Good Bluetooth range too. The different sound setups are cool too but I haven't really gotten use to them yet.

Easy to connect to other devices too - itouch, laptop, HTC phone.

Can go through batteries fairly fast though so I'd buy some rechargable ones if you get it. And takes a while to get use to pressing all the buttons on the ears of the headphones.

I'd definitely recommend though if you want to go the wireless route.

mcgovern

My px21s fell apart after only a few months, not going near turtle beach again.

LumpyGravy

I bought the Tritton AX Pro to use with COD a few weeks back off ebay (three days later PSN went down). Excellent headphones if you dont mind all the cables that come with them. They also work great with bluray discs, only problem I'm having is that surround doesnt seem to work that well with dvd films.

Also you may want to make sure it's the new version as I hear the first batch needed two power supplies.

Varik

Something people need to know is that most of these use dolby headphones to give 5.1/7.1 and that only works when the source is a 5.1/7.1 Dolby format.

If you try these on PC games where most games don't use it then it won't output as 5.1 to the headphones, to fix this you need Dolby live on either your motherboards or a dedicated soundcard or have software setup to convert all sound but that's not ideal.

For the PS3 all games have Dolby but not all Blu-rays do, got Serenity a while ago and that only had DTS so i would have had to use stereo instead if i wanted to listen to it on my headphones.

Headshot

amazon have this in stock tomorrow

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turtle-Beach-Programmable-Wireless-Headset/dp/B004R9Q1IA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1306406493&sr=8-1

Thinking of pre ordering it

mcgovern

Headshot wrote: »

amazon have this in stock tomorrow

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turtle-Beach-Programmable-Wireless-Headset/dp/B004R9Q1IA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1306406493&sr=8-1

Thinking of pre ordering it

Design looks pretty similar to PX21s, namely the ear cup which was one of the things that fell off mine. A few of my friends with other turtle beaches (X1s mainly) also had the ear fall off. The build quality on Triton's seem's much better (though there are things about them that I don't like also).

F1ngers

Due in stores in the US in september for $99.99

Featuring 7.1 virtual surround sound, the Wireless Stereo Headset lets you hear all the minor in-game audio clues clearly, whether you are in a firefight in a first-person shooter game or racing for the checkered flag.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/27/new-official-wireless-stereo-headset-coming-for-ps3/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=headset_052711

cabrwab

F1ngers wrote: »

Due in stores in the US in september for $99

Hmmmm interesting! If it works and is comfortable to wear and use it could push me to actually eventually buying one as I had planned!

Beefy78

Argos have just got the PX5 in over here.

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/9384961/c_1/1|category_root|Video+games|14419738/c_2/3|cat_19780877|Accessories|22528608.htm

€225...

F1ngers

$99 in the US or €225 in argos...wow...

EDIT: oops, must make sure I don't get products mixed up...:o

Headshot

F1ngers wrote: »

$99 in the US or €225 in argos...wow...

Im not sure where your getting the 99$ from