No it's for sound isolation.

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Headphones. Generally speaking, the bigger the driver is the bigger the sound stage is. This should help you separate sounds, pinpoint locations and so forth. I haven't used many earbuds, but the ones I tried sound very tinny and the frequency responses were not very good. They are great for isolation, but you sacrifice quality in my experience.

Aren't there sound isolation headphones so why would you need the earbud sound isolation? Why would pros put the headphones over earbuds?

Because lans are really fucking loud. Even with earbuds and headphones you still hear shit going on around you. It's the best you can do though.

the helicopter style isolation headphones you can see on some pictures of lans cost an insane amount of money. earbud are way cheaper.

the ones you saw in the pics were most likely just hearing protection used over the earbuds.

EARBUDS + BLACK BILLS FOR YOUR S GUNSLINGER

DJ Headphones! Fuck yeah!

At LANS do they have sound coming from the earbuds AND headphones?

No only earbuds. Also if it isn't obvious: of course nobody uses headphones on earbuds at home.

I'll just put these away...

Do earbuds or headphones have better sound for at home?

Headphones

Headphones. Of course - good headphones. :)

earbuds for life !

Or until you're 50 and they turn into hearing aids.

I wonder if there is a cheap alternative for making some home-made helicopter style isolation headphones. I'm sure covering some regular headphones with two dozen alternating layers of duct tape and corrugated cardboard would help :D Sure you might look like a moose but who's gonna have the last laugh!?

how about ear protection stuff like they use at construction sites, shooting ranges and others, then use in-ear phones inside them. Doesn't get cheaper than that really.

For home use I wouldn't go the cheap ass route: just buy good isolation instead. Spending on your home is an investment, which is a rare thing these days that every product is disposable and loses value after a short while.

Yeah well as long as you don't live on a street with heavy traffic or right next to a noisy venue I don't see the need of having anything other than standard headphones while at home. I was thinking about LANs for the homemade noise-blockers.

Then get what vinegartaster said, which is the same as I wrote but with a link. Those things are absurdly cheap in price, but haven't tried one in person to see if they are surprisingly cheap to wear and use.

and c'mon get decent phones anyway

ofc, mine are 35€ pioneer, pretty decent

As far as i know the ear protection made for construction sites specifically doesn't block or frequencies so that you can still hear human speech in case of emergencies etc. So not very useful for lan usage.

This is true for a lot of them. Mostly the more expensive ones are designed that way, but from my experience the cheaper all-purpose earmuffs block out everything. If they're designed to only block low/mid frequencies and allow speech to be heard, they'll usually include that in their product description/advertising.

http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/Staple...PID=847568

There are cheaper ones, but these block out any noise up to 105db in case you live inside of a steel mill.

"Ear muffs" is what you're looking for.

Well, how many db do you get at a LAN?

http://www.industrialnoisecontrol.com/compara...amples.htm


Really, really loud LAN finals are probably around 100db tops if I were to guess.

really easy to make, just pop off the ear piece and throw some headphones in there. This is my work set .. http://i.imgur.com/tOXgnMD.jpg .. its filthy and hooked up to a bluetooth reciever (obv dont use for gaming b/c delay but its nice when doing work shit) .. but they're easy and cheap to make. but yeah id suggest a headset i have the popular ath m50's as well as the some grado 325's. usually use the m50s for games.

nice

They have 2 soundcards they send audio from quake to soundcard number one then out through headphones and on to soundcard number two that outputs in the earbuds so they get more sound(makes it easier to (almost like 5.1 sound) to hear the enemy).

This sounds like a joke but try listening to the same audio source (eg radio, slightly delayed is best) using earphones and speakers simultaneously. Bizzare effect.

Im pretty sure youd hear the 2 sources slightly out of phase making it sound like a ministry record

See #28 first line

Buy the Tritton PC510s. They cost $100.

They are an amazing true 5.1 analog headphone. Most onboard sound cards already support 5.1.

Since there are multiple drivers in the headphone the sound stage is already setup for you.

Many 7.1 headphone use a DSP processor to create the illusion of 7.1 sound.

With an analog system, and the correct number of drivers you have a true 5.1 in a head phone.

http://www.gamegear.be/images/tritton_pc510_4.jpg
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