I have a Plantronics Gamecom headset, that cost about $40 iirc, and an ancient audigy soundcard, and the Dolby test above sounded pretty good through them, although I'll admit that their Bass response is pretty crap. They however sounded great with the binaural and holophonic demo's in the update thread, to the point where I swatted them off my head during the bee section of (I think) the last one.
I'm not a serious audiophile (I'm happy with the earbuds that came with my Sansa), so I guess I'm easy to please, but I do like nice sound, and the plantronics set is good enough for me, especially for gaming.
I'm just not sure how much 5.1 has to offer in a headset, as I hear perfect positional sound in all the shooters that I've tried so far with a standard one.
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