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    EDimensional AudioFX Pro 5+1 By Ben Heck (Headset)

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by Gospodar, Aug 16, 2007.

  1. Gospodar

    Gospodar Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was wondering if anyone had any experience or opinions on this particular headset? I first saw in this "back to school gadgets" article form Tom's Hardware:
    http://www.geardigest.com/2007/08/06/more_stuff_for_back_to_school/page6.html

    I recently ordered a laptop and although I originally was going to buy a set of Logitech Z-5500, I am now looking for a good headset since my laptop does not support 5.1 sound. (Note that I've looked at some external sound cards like the Zalman, Vantec, and Creative SB Live ones [Audigy 2 NX seems to have dissapeared] and reviews on newegg and other places just don't seem to be too positive.. and buying an expensive set fo speakers with an underpowered external sound card seems kind of silly to me)

    The eDimensional ones have an integrated decoder for sorround sound and don't require a sound card. I was actually very interested in the Tritton AX360 that come with the external sound card/decoder, but I read many reviews about that headset that said the sound quality was very poor. I'm not a huge audiophile, but I do know when I sound is nice and clear or weird and static-y... That basically means I'm alright with spending 50-150 (200 at most) for a headset, but not more for something like the Sennheiser HD 680 or whatever the models are that cost 300-600.

    I read in another thread that stereo headsets are much better quality than equally priced sorround sound ones, and that makes sense, but I'm still interested in having a sorround sound headset.
     
    Gospodar, Aug 16, 2007
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  2. kiwikat

    kiwikat Notebook Consultant

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    I have just bought this thing. It is incredibly comfortable, but I can't get it to install on my lappy. The program that installs drivers on the disk that came with it won't recognize the headset as being plugged in, yet it shows up in the device manager. Does anyone have the slightest clue how I might be able to get the install program to recognize my headset? I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit on an ASUS C90S
     
    kiwikat, Aug 31, 2007
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