antscrubber

What's your favorite way to game, with speakers or headphones? What kind do you use? I use headphones at night and speakers during the day - cuz my roomates don't need to hear it at night. For headphones I have this pair from OTTO: http://www.hearotto.com/Products_OT6.aspx I like them cuz they're comfy and they sound good. For speakers I have an old pair of JBL 4311B's - studio monitors from the good ol' days. I like headphones the best because I hear a lot of background that way. Especially on GTA: San Andreas, I didn't realize 1/2 of what the people were saying til I played with headphones.

Dmitry M. (Lazer)

Speakers, but i use headphones more often because parents get pissed. Why? Because i game with music and not with game sound unless sound is detrimental to the game.

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Norrec

I play with my stuff running through my X-Fi card's optical on older Logitech Z640 speakers. When I'm playing at night or when my girlfriend is sleeping in my room I get out my Skullcandy GI headphones.

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psplayer

speakers for consoles, headphones for psp though

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everett102

neither. I play muted.

Gabriel013

Speakers but then I live on my own. My only concession is that I keep it turned down when I think it might disturb my neighbours. Shame they don't always extend the curtesy to me.

I don't like using headphones.

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antscrubber

If ya know what kind/brand you use, lemme know. I'm sort of in the market for new speakers (the ones I have are excellent, but old, and they are too big for the space they're in) so wanna know what people use and like. I'm happy with my headphones though, they're brand new. I might get another set from Otto, they have a stereo surround pair and I think that would be cool for gaming (positional audio, whee!). I was playing a shooter today and realized I like speakers better for that, don't like gunshots so close to my ears, plus the feel of them in my body is part of the fun.

hoggle

speakers

Gabriel013

Now speakers and a headset.

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Russell Burrows

Speakers:

Proof of concept was I got tired of hearing about the "Bose wonder cubes" from three customers every time they came to our store office.

(why bose wonder cubes? well I wonder what kind of idiot/fool buys them).


So instead I decided to make my own:

Speaker motor drivers were the cheapest I was able to get:
Four dollar per 8 inch car audio Titan (made in China) woofer and two dollars per each soft dome silk tweeter.

Setup for speaker boxes was regular pine box with three axis internal reinforcement, acoustic suspension type or sealed instead of ported, internal liners were first layer fiberglass and resin with second layer non resonant mineral highway tar at 810 degrees F.

Outer layer of each box was 1/8 rosewood glued to pine boxes and sanded to finish at 1200 grade sandpaper with three hand rubbed lacker coats.

Each channel was two 8 inch drivers for total 8 ohm load with a smaller second box via poly capacitor with two three inch drivers with single softdome tweeter.

Each channel: left, center, right, right surround, left surround.

Total driver count:
Five tweeters.
Ten three inch drivers.
Ten 8 inch car audio woofers.

One Sherwood home theater amp. with dolby digital and fiber optic in.



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Subwoofer section:
Four ten inch dual voice coil Resonant brand subwoofers.

Two Sherwood home theater amps with fiber optic in.

One Alessis thirty band dual channel crossover.


SPL or Sound Pressure Level reaches past the 130 DB on the measuring mike at one meter.


Customers come in and I point out that those speakers are the cheapest I was able to get.

And how do they sound?

Well when you have non-resonant and solid as concrete enclosures and massive piston area it gets real loud real fast with NO distortion.



The three customers came back and they shut-up real quick about Bose brand micro crap cubes.

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