Track down your enemies with the ultimate headset

[Steven W]

The Medusa 5.1 Home Edition ensures that you'll be able to hear your enemies approaching and be able to pin-point their exact location.

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[5lab]

has no-one realised that 5.1 headphones are no better than standard headphones for spacial awareness?

[RavenNight]

Have you actually tried these? My pair of medusa's work spectacularly, I can hear exactly where stuff is coming from. That new Amp box is certainly an improvement on the old one.

[5lab]

you can hear exactly where stuff is coming from with any pair of headphones, due to stereo positioning. if you take one ear, it alone can not tell if a noise is in front or behind it, as a result of which having multiple drivers per ear is pointless.

[RavenNight]

Well as much as the acoustics may be against it, it works and a heck of a lot better than any stereo headset i've tried.

[Zak33]

to be fair 5lab mate...my Medusa's are pretty damn good.

In terms of Centre Channel they just fudge it (no spurpise there really) but back left and right and very easy to identify.

[Zak33]

nb: I HOPE.....no ,....I PRAY ...that Speedlink have got the quality up to scratch , because my mate Agent got some on my "say so" and he had 2 bad sets, with either bad wiring or faulty driver units, and it cost him to return them both times

[EvilMunky]

I have to say that 5.1 headsets are much better than stereo ones in terms of knowing where stuff is comign from.

Im currently running a standard stereo set since my Zalmans bust (i moved my chair and split the cable), and they do not give me nearly as much idea where someone is compared to the zalmans.

I mean, we are talking like it almost looks like im wallhacking.

[5lab]

a game running eax for stereo headphones will have better sound positioning than one with 5.1 sound, running through 2 speakers. more than 1 driver per ear is completely and utterly pointless - if you got a mate to slide the for/aft positioning of a sound around, without altering the left-right positioning - you'd be able to tell how 'far' from you the sound was, but not if it were in front or behind. a single ear cannot detect for/aft sound.

http://www.behardware.com/articles/4...tive-test.html

[Stoo]

5lab - drop it, just accept the fact that other people find it better.

[herulach]

I have to say, i agree with 5lab, the reason why you notice a difference is that usually when using stereo headphones no effort is made to position fore/aft. THe same effect could be achieved with stereo headphones, just nobody does it.

To be pedantic, these headphones (at least teh ones ive seen) are actually only 4 driver anyway, they just take a 5.1 input, and fudge center.
I assume the extra driver is used to make the electronics easier/cheaper (thered probably be a good amount of lag if you had to process the appropriate trip time for each channel then recombine, easier to just use different drivers)

[Stoo]

Sure you probably could get the same effect with a properly configured system and a pair of stereo headphones, but if this solution provides the drivers and the hardware, and it works from the get go (assuming that you don't get a duff pair), who cares if it's "bad physics"?

Getting anal over it serves no purpose.

[herulach]

Sure you probably could get the same effect with a properly configured system and a pair of stereo headphones, but if this solution provides the drivers and the hardware, and it works from the get go (assuming that you don't get a duff pair), who cares if it's "bad physics"?

Getting anal over it serves no purpose.

And i agree. Although sometimes i swear theyve got positional stereo on the psp, certain games, particularly pursuit force seem to have it.

[kempez]

I've played with decent stereo headphones (nothing silly but decent). Spacial stuff issss...okay.

I currently play with a set of Zalmans. They're not 100% accurate but they are an improvement on the stereo ones.

If the Medusa's are better then I will buy a pair