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..

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. 😉

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. 😉

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 ****.

they look good thou

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 ****.

I've tried a few "true surround" headphones, they've all been absolutely awful. When you cram that many small speakers into such a small space, the result is going to be tinny, low quality sound. I'll take a good set of stereo headphones any day, the virtual surround offered by Creative and Asus is as good (or better) in terms of offering directional audio. You also get the added benefit of wearing a quality sounding set of cans.

they look good thou

They look like something from a Transformers movie. :P Everyone has different taste I guess.