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Mad Catz - The F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset
One more from Mad Catz today. Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. ("Mad Catz") announced today the F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1, a new tournament quality 7.1 Surround Sound PC Gaming Headset, offering advanced levels of audio personalization and compatibility with gaming consoles and smart devices.
Expected to ship in time for Holiday 2015, the F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1 is part of the Company's Tournament Edition range of high performance gaming products, designed in conjunction with eSports athletes to withstand the stress of tournament play and deliver a competitive edge when gaming at a professional level.
Connecting via standard USB, the F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1 features advanced audio customization software which places the gamer at center stage and fully in control of their audio environment. The 7.1 surround sound engine delivered through 50mm drivers provide the player with a full 360 degrees of positional awareness, while a removable boom microphone with dual chat mic system works to cancel out environmental background noise and boost the clarity of the player's voice to teammates.
Mad Catz proprietary surround sound software allows gamers to alter, improve and personalize their audio to their liking by creating customized EQ profiles for all of their favorite media. Through audio enhancement, the clarity and previously lost audio details common to compressed audio are restored, while Dynamic Bass mode boosts low frequency response, relaying every explosion and shot with powerful precision. Voice Enhancement mode isolates and improves the clarity of voice frequency in VOIP or media, and when in VOIP mode, the Voice Effects feature even allows gamers to alter the sound of their own voice.
Designed for extended play sessions, the F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1 surrounds the player in comfort with luxurious memory foam earcups and a padded headrail. Not just for PC gaming, with the included 3.5 mm cable, the F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1 is compatible with the latest HD gaming consoles and most multi-media players, allowing gamers to enjoy their favorite games, movies, music and more in crystal clear surround sound. Simple on-ear controls put volume, mic and "call/answer" functionality at your fingertips.
"Our Tournament Edition range is designed for passionate gamers who demand high-performance products that can withstand the rigors and stress of tournament conditions," said Darren Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. "In-game audio is vital to the performance of the player, and we believe that our F.R.E.Q. TE 7.1 will offer the competitive edge eSports and competitive gamers need to stay ahead of the competition."
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#5162210 Posted on: 09/22/2015 04:17 AM
If it doesn't have 7.1 speakers in the headset it shouldn't be allowed to call itself a 7.1 headset. Period. I am sick to death of "surround sound" claims on headphone packaging. It's all bull****. It's just mixing and EQ trickery. My (exteemely comfortable) SteelSeries Siberia Elite headset made these same kind of bull**** claims in it's marketing, turns out it's just EQ trickery on the bundled USB sound card. A "virtuallised" surround sound experience. Don't get me wrong, great headset. Love it, wouldn't trade it for anything. But Surround sound? Get out of town. There's two speakers, not seven (mush less seven point one). Build me a headset that literally has seven speakers and a sub-woofer built into the headband and THEN I will acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "surround" headset, not before.
And that's my two cents for the day. I'll mail you the bill.
If it doesn't have 7.1 speakers in the headset it shouldn't be allowed to call itself a 7.1 headset. Period. I am sick to death of "surround sound" claims on headphone packaging. It's all bull****. It's just mixing and EQ trickery. My (exteemely comfortable) SteelSeries Siberia Elite headset made these same kind of bull**** claims in it's marketing, turns out it's just EQ trickery on the bundled USB sound card. A "virtuallised" surround sound experience. Don't get me wrong, great headset. Love it, wouldn't trade it for anything. But Surround sound? Get out of town. There's two speakers, not seven (mush less seven point one). Build me a headset that literally has seven speakers and a sub-woofer built into the headband and THEN I will acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "surround" headset, not before.
And that's my two cents for the day. I'll mail you the bill.
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#5162219 Posted on: 09/22/2015 05:36 AM
If it doesn't have 7.1 speakers in the headset it shouldn't be allowed to call itself a 7.1 headset. Period. I am sick to death of "surround sound" claims on headphone packaging. It's all bull****. It's just mixing and EQ trickery. My (exteemely comfortable) SteelSeries Siberia Elite headset made these same kind of bull**** claims in it's marketing, turns out it's just EQ trickery on the bundled USB sound card. A "virtuallised" surround sound experience. Don't get me wrong, great headset. Love it, wouldn't trade it for anything. But Surround sound? Get out of town. There's two speakers, not seven (mush less seven point one). Build me a headset that literally has seven speakers and a sub-woofer built into the headband and THEN I will acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "surround" headset, not before.
And that's my two cents for the day. I'll mail you the bill.
I'd agree that advertising 7.1 would be bull but the virtualized headphones do not. But as long as we only have two ears I imagine that virtualized technology will eventually be able to easily surpass a bunch of speakers crammed to give surround directionality when our ears and mind work with the cues we get from delay and eq. ( if u think about it. It is 7.1 that is the hack? )
If it doesn't have 7.1 speakers in the headset it shouldn't be allowed to call itself a 7.1 headset. Period. I am sick to death of "surround sound" claims on headphone packaging. It's all bull****. It's just mixing and EQ trickery. My (exteemely comfortable) SteelSeries Siberia Elite headset made these same kind of bull**** claims in it's marketing, turns out it's just EQ trickery on the bundled USB sound card. A "virtuallised" surround sound experience. Don't get me wrong, great headset. Love it, wouldn't trade it for anything. But Surround sound? Get out of town. There's two speakers, not seven (mush less seven point one). Build me a headset that literally has seven speakers and a sub-woofer built into the headband and THEN I will acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "surround" headset, not before.
And that's my two cents for the day. I'll mail you the bill.
I'd agree that advertising 7.1 would be bull but the virtualized headphones do not. But as long as we only have two ears I imagine that virtualized technology will eventually be able to easily surpass a bunch of speakers crammed to give surround directionality when our ears and mind work with the cues we get from delay and eq. ( if u think about it. It is 7.1 that is the hack? )
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#5162396 Posted on: 09/22/2015 03:37 PM
If it doesn't have 7.1 speakers in the headset it shouldn't be allowed to call itself a 7.1 headset. Period. I am sick to death of "surround sound" claims on headphone packaging. It's all bull****. It's just mixing and EQ trickery. My (exteemely comfortable) SteelSeries Siberia Elite headset made these same kind of bull**** claims in it's marketing, turns out it's just EQ trickery on the bundled USB sound card. A "virtuallised" surround sound experience. Don't get me wrong, great headset. Love it, wouldn't trade it for anything. But Surround sound? Get out of town. There's two speakers, not seven (mush less seven point one). Build me a headset that literally has seven speakers and a sub-woofer built into the headband and THEN I will acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "surround" headset, not before.
And that's my two cents for the day. I'll mail you the bill.
If you're going to follow that train of logic you might as demand that 3D tvs stop advertising themselves as such as all they do is "trick" the brain into thinking there is an actual 3D imagine in front of you.
That USB soundcard IS the 7.1 surround sound, it does the subtle things that trick the brain into applying direction to them which is exactly what the human brain does to define direction in the first place as the human ear has no physical apparatus to determine direction.
Also there used to be a fair few "True" surround sound headsets ... they were all (to my knowledge when I was buying mine a while back) were all either Incredibly expensive and average or cheap, heavy and ****.
If it doesn't have 7.1 speakers in the headset it shouldn't be allowed to call itself a 7.1 headset. Period. I am sick to death of "surround sound" claims on headphone packaging. It's all bull****. It's just mixing and EQ trickery. My (exteemely comfortable) SteelSeries Siberia Elite headset made these same kind of bull**** claims in it's marketing, turns out it's just EQ trickery on the bundled USB sound card. A "virtuallised" surround sound experience. Don't get me wrong, great headset. Love it, wouldn't trade it for anything. But Surround sound? Get out of town. There's two speakers, not seven (mush less seven point one). Build me a headset that literally has seven speakers and a sub-woofer built into the headband and THEN I will acknowledge that there is such a thing as a "surround" headset, not before.
And that's my two cents for the day. I'll mail you the bill.
If you're going to follow that train of logic you might as demand that 3D tvs stop advertising themselves as such as all they do is "trick" the brain into thinking there is an actual 3D imagine in front of you.
That USB soundcard IS the 7.1 surround sound, it does the subtle things that trick the brain into applying direction to them which is exactly what the human brain does to define direction in the first place as the human ear has no physical apparatus to determine direction.
Also there used to be a fair few "True" surround sound headsets ... they were all (to my knowledge when I was buying mine a while back) were all either Incredibly expensive and average or cheap, heavy and ****.
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#5167293 Posted on: 10/02/2015 01:11 PM
they look good thou
they look good thou
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This looks like something I could buy to replace my Corsair 1500d which have been annoyingly tight and not really comfortable on the long run.
If it's good enough and not priced too high..