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(38 customer reviews) 16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
OK, but don't get your hopes up,
January 28, 2007 Michael Pietrzak (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cyberhome CH-SRD 600R 6-channel Surround Headphones with Game Decoder (Electronics)
Pros:
-Takes both optical & coaxial inputs.
-Volume control mounted on unit.
-Look nice.
-Headset completely covers my ears.
Cons:
-The Optical input has some noise, but isn't so bad after turning up the volume. The Coaxial input has alot of noise, very annoying.
-The headset is kinda shallow on the inside & ends up pushing against my ears & they start to hurt after about an hour.
-The sound is poor. It isn't even average. Kinda bass heavy, then the mid-range is all over the place & the treble is non-existant. Sometimes it sounds like you're in a tunnel.
-There are a ton of cords to keep track of. There is the power supply, the line input, the little base that does the decoding. The cord to the headphones. It ends up being a pile.
Would I buy them again, probably not. If they weren't so painful, I'd probably be able to live with them, but that's just too much. I...Read more
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great deal for $20,
February 21, 2007 Gino Cortesi "Plowboy" (Honey Brook, Pa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cyberhome CH-SRD 600R 6-channel Surround Headphones with Game Decoder (Electronics)
I hooked these up to my Xbox 360 and was pleasantly surprised for the money.
The bass response is very impressive, and the left right separation is also surprisingly good. The L/R separation is the best feature, as you can really hear the difference between front right, dead right and rear right. Walking past something in a game and hearing it sweep along you is really well done. When the sound sweeps behind or in front it's not a smooth transition. The simulated rear and center front are workable, but not convincing (not a replacement for physical speakers).
Overall I'd say the sound is comparable to a set of the lower line Sennheiser over the ear phones.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Surprisingly Good,
December 28, 2006 Wombat37 (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cyberhome CH-SRD 600R 6-channel Surround Headphones with Game Decoder (Electronics)
I'll be honest - I got these headphones because they were so cheap. I like playing PC action games and so the sound effects and their positional information is very important. Using multiple speakers is effective but rather noisy for the rest of the household!
Enter these CH-SRD600R headphones.
They are driven by a digital signal and will not support an analog output - so make sure you have either an optical or electrical digital output. Do not expect to plug these into an MP3 player etc. I believe most DVD and CD players these days have digital outputs. My Creative Audigy 2 sound card has a digital output which works nicely with these phones.
They can be powered either by an AC adapter (supplied) or a rechargable lithium ion battery (also supplied).
The headphones come with their own decoder to drive the 3 speakers in each phone so any PC internal decoding is redundant - it just treats the headphones as the front two speakers. This is where...Read more
