So recently I purchased a few gaming headphones (Sony 3d Pulse + Arctis Nova Pro Wireless) as well as some regular headphones for streaming music off my phone (Bose QC Ultra + Sony XM5s). Like everyone I just googled PS5 headphones and bought what appeared to me to be the best options available.
However, I recently upgraded to a Smart TV which allows me to connect my XM5s + Boses directly to my TV and stream audio via bluetooth - and it works for games. This is awesome and is making me consider if I even need gaming headphones and should just use my music headphones / upgrade to some higher end headphones.
Here’s the thing, I dont play online at all. I just play single player. I dont need a mic, and I do prefer low latency but I probably dont need ball-busting state of the art latency connections or w/e. What I do want is 1) the best audio quality possible, 2) 3d audio - which I’m still unclear as to whether this is supported by non gaming headphones connected directly to my TV.
I like the idea of having multiple devices paired at once (so I can speak on a call while having gaming sounds playing, or streaming YT as I play), but in reality I probably will never use it.
Can someone clarify? Debating whether to simply sell my existing ‘gamer’ headphones at this point. Will I lose out on 3d audio? Does 3d audio still work even when paired to the TV and not the console itself? Also, will the quality suffer if I stream audio from my TV and not the console itself?
Anything that a gaming headset can do (for example, spatial audio), a good music headset can do better. There’s nothing special about gaming headsets (aside from the mic of course), ultimately they are just tiny speakers that you steal to your head.
I like to game at night with my Sennheisers running through my hone theater receiver, so I don’t wake my family up, and I absolutely love it. The spatial audio on Fortnite allows me to accurately hear where sounds are coming from, and the ambient sounds in GTA V are very immersive… I just about crapped my self the first time a thunderstorm happened while playing with headphones.
Which Sennheisers? I think I could get a good deal on the 660s - and also the B 1990s. Trying to decide btwn the 2