can a pair of skull crasher headphones be worth for this gamer?

[katdogfizzow]

Originally Posted by flyingblind

Did anyone see 'Earthquake' at the cinema. Now there was sound to make your teeth rattle. There were apocryphal tales of drink bottles being broken.

what a terrific use of a word.. A+

[Phazon]

I highly recommend Sennheiser headphones if you have the money for them, they aren't cheap but the quality is what you pay for.

Also you might want to look into what sort of soundcard you have. Larger more powerful headphones are usually designed to be used with a headphone amplifier or dedicated powered headphone jack. Without these the headphones won't be able to reach their performance level.

There are a few soundcards out there with built-in headphone amplifier jacks, my Auzentech X-Fi Forte is one. I use it with a Sennheiser PC350 headset and it sounds great.

[Pluto]

... forget it all!

You want a real effect, more than a headset can provide?
Get a "buttkicker-gear":
http://www.thebuttkicker.com/gaming/

I personally dont have it but a friend tested it and he said, it makes your bowels shake.

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by Pluto

... forget it all!

You want a real effect, more than a headset can provide?
Get a "buttkicker-gear":
http://www.thebuttkicker.com/gaming/

I personally dont have it but a friend tested it and he said, it makes your bowels shake.

Wow, I want one.

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by Pluto

... forget it all!

You want a real effect, more than a headset can provide?
Get a "buttkicker-gear":
http://www.thebuttkicker.com/gaming/

I personally dont have it but a friend tested it and he said, it makes your bowels shake.

My god...Hilarious

[icarus]

Buttkicker is really good for sims if you adjust it properly. Most just crank it up and it will rattle your teeth which is ridiculous. Set properly, you get the feeling in the seat of your pants that you are in a machine with an engine. You feel the guns shaking the plane. Especially good for WWII planes.

Pull it out of the box and crank it and its a joke. Set it up properly and it will really enhance the immersion factor.

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by icarus

Buttkicker is really good for sims if you adjust it properly. Most just crank it up and it will rattle your teeth which is ridiculous. Set properly, you get the feeling in the seat of your pants that you are in a machine with an engine. You feel the guns shaking the plane. Especially good for WWII planes.

Pull it out of the box and crank it and its a joke. Set it up properly and it will really enhance the immersion factor.

Yea but im just worried about the GF getting hold of it and adjusting it to her means...

[Pyrres]

A good pair of headphones really makes a differense but dont forget that as someone allready said that amplifier is also important. I have a pair Sennheiser HD595 headphones and they sound very very dull and powerless without a good amp but a good amplifier does make a big big differense. And many of you were criticising old IL2 sounds and I do agree, they were far from perfect but were really not that bad when you had the hardware to hear them properly. My whole appartment was shaking when I flew a P38 at full throttle (2xDali Ikon2 as mainspeakers, BK Monolith DF+ as sub) and all that I can say is it had a really really great immersionfactor. Many of the old and new samples are very low frequenses and not that many of us have the right hardware to listen to the sounds.