Serious Headphones For Serious Fraggers February 8, 2008

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When a company like Sennheiser starts marketing its latest headphones with the words ‘high-end’ you know it’s time to break open that jar of coppers you’ve been collecting for years and start counting. However, when it uses the words ‘Mega high-end’, you know you’re in trouble.

Meet the Sennheiser Communications PC 350, the ‘mega high-end gaming headset’ for just £150. That’s a lot for any set of cans, but especially gaming headphones. That said, they do promise ‘the most accurate sound positioning and finest sound quality available in the gaming market’. For £150, they had better. They do sport a 3m cable and can also be used with your hi-fi, for Skype calls and other PC-based comms. Sennheiser says:

“A round-the-ear, closed type headset, the PC 350 shuts out disturbing noises from the environment. That combined with the special shaping of the frequency response improves gamers ability to detect where a sound comes from. This helps significantly sharpen reaction time, giving players a built in advantage over the competition. “When talking with your team or when listening for the enemy, the quality of your headset makes a difference,” says an online gamer.”

You’d have to very serious indeed about your online gaming to consider the PC 350s. Just don't blame them when you're still crap at 'Capture The Flag'. -Martin Lynch

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