Sennheiser PC-350

[Tinman]

Ian Sharland takes a look at one of Sennheiser's flagship gaming headsets

Sennheiser PC-350

[mcryan]

They certainly sound great, and a product I know I would be happy to own, but not a product I would be happy to buy. For that amount of money you can buy a hi-fi set, a set of great PC speakers, etc. I don't think I would be comfortable spending so much on it.

[Gradius]

I wantz this would be great for when I go to LAN

[Blackhand]

Have a pair myself and don't regret the purchase, however, they are REALLY damn pricey for a set of gaming headphones, but they would be very tough to beat in terms of quality.

Senheiser was a pretty clear winner for me, having experience with quite a few of their excellent studio monitors, so I was willing to fork out for what I knew would be top notch headphones. As the author of the article says though, they are not bassy out of the box (game clarity being about midrange), you may have to adjust your EQ if you want more thump, which they do have a lot of, you just need to tweak your EQ.

[GReeN_ORB]

They certainly sound great, and a product I know I would be happy to own, but not a product I would be happy to buy. For that amount of money you can buy a hi-fi set, a set of great PC speakers, etc. I don't think I would be comfortable spending so much on it.

That's why I mentioned in the review that they are for very dedicated gamers If you spend a LOT of time in a noisy environment, or in a place where you can't use your set of even more expensive Z-5500s, these will come very in handy.

[Blackhand]

Well, considering the headphones are good enough for studio work (I would use them instead of the much more expensive sets of Senheiser monitors I have), they are not that pricey.

Yes, the sound quality and clarity is just that good, but you have to be pretty damn anal or doing fine audio work to really appreciate it. For a high level competitive gamer, they would certainly make a difference in tracking your opponents every footstep. They are also proper closed headphones, so outside noise is largely filtered out, completely at anything higher than low volume. The headphones make virtually no noise even at their higher volume levels, which is pretty damn loud, without distorting I might add.