Alright, so my Sennheiser 350's will be here on the 18th, in the mean time I've been reading all the awesome reviews about them.
So I decided I should study all the "bad" reviews. I only found roughly 10-15 of these, compared to thousands of 5 stars across the web.
I read they require like 200 hours of use before they sound good / the bass can be heard, and I've also heard the complaint "Tin cans"?
I was alerted that having an Amp can make the set sound even noicer.
I have a sound-card though:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102019
It says nothing about having a built in Amp or anything, but I've also read that if you don't have an Amp, but have a GOOD sound card, it can work just as well.
So what I'm asking basically is, this burn in time thing is important, right? So should I set the volume to very low, and run audio in a loop for a few nights while I sleep, so that they can "burn in"? Is this a viable method, or just not a good idea?
Also, on the Amp, I've googled abit...and well...it appears to be like 200$ even for a generic amp for the headset.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826106219
I got it from Amazon though.(50$ cheaper or so!)
http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-PC-350-Gaming-Headset/dp/B0012XFDWO/ref=pd_cp_e_3
I haven't got them yet as I said, so I have no idea how they sound; but I'm moving up from a Creative USB Set, so they're going to be way better, I'd imagine, though some reviews can be dis-heartening.
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Also a friend linked me to this:
CMoy Pocket Amplifier
http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy-tutorial/
Says for about 20$, I can build it myself, anyone have any word on this?
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_kw=CMoy&_kw=Amplifier&_ckw=Pocket
Seems you can buy pre-built on Ebay. I know some of the purists in you will probably look down at me for buying a gaming headset, and using a cheap Amp, but please, just help me out on this one. Thanks, I don't really want to buy a 100-200$ AMP and I've heard good thing about the CMoy's. I was looking at this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-CMOY-Blue-Ice-Stereo-Hi-Fi-Headphone-Amplifier-Amp_W0QQitemZ230421347642QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a62ebd3a
Thanks.