Are Surround Gaming Headphones BS?

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1. CORRECTION: It turns out that the ASUS Fusion 700 uses virtual surround based on Bongiovi Acoustics’ Digital Power Station technology, not ASUS’ proprietary solution. Sorry for the confusion!

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2. I’m revisiting this video for whomever is interested. Just read it, you might end up being #1 in CS
   If you are 40+ you have probably went to a theather (cinema) where where you had a THX intro promo video with a helicopter moving around. The whole room (some… that saw/hear it for the first time) would look in a certain direction, all to the exact same point. There wouldn’t be any discussion as to where they were looking.
   I used to play CS around 2000’s with a speedlink medusa 5.1 connected to a soundblaster audigy. The speedlink medusa had 4 drivers per ear-cup. I was able to play blindfolded because of the audio. Everything they sell now is absolute CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has to do with cost/bulky.
   This video is BS! If you manage to get your hands on an old 5.1 multiple driver headset from back in the days and you hook it up to your 4 3.5mm jacks, you’re jaw will drop for a full week how much you improved your damn competitive fsp game!
   I really, really hope any competitive (= making money playing fps games), can ask his sponsor about this and set it up for him with the old tech. “Old tech”… but plain and simple, no crappy virtualization or simulation. Just like you would have a true surround home cinema system where each speaker gets a channel; SAME FFING THING IN THE HEADPHONE CUPS. Certain sound coming from 1 driver in the earcup. Everyone’s ear is different but works perfectly well, so simulating surround sound is about good enough to give the “it SEEMS to come from the left or whatever” aspect.
   With this setup, in the horizontal plane, I would do 180°, no need to look at each frame to see where he is at (blindfolded bascially), because some dude in CS_Italy was on the balcony shooting me in the back. The balcony you see on the right in this 3d viewer:
   https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cs-italy-with-real-light-556bd442814d4db5a9d301c4754fbb3c
   I didn’t need to rely on the fps, which in the day would reach 120 to analyze every frame during the 180° to spot the shooter… It was muscle/sound memory. Also when new maps came out, and there’s no ray tracing for sound, you would have your crosshair aimed at all times at the footsteps walls or no wall…. which ALWAYS ended in “cheater” “‘looser” “h4x”…. I stopped playing because dumbasses started cheating to counter the true surround advantage!!!!!!!!!!!!

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3. So no one’s going to talk about how they did a directional accuracy sound check?

   Speaking of, this is bad design on razers part to not realize the positioning of those drivers matter, like A LOT, if they’re going to be individual drivers.

   Otherwise the Dolby handles the position of the sounds.

   For non surround sound purposes I imagine this headset is really good terms of playing different sounds all at once like movies, though the bad positioning would still mess with you immersion the more precise the movie is with their sound direction…

   This product has potential but needs to be redesigned.

   Because look at IEMs, they work just fine, but have a narrow soundstage.

   If we kept everything the same but just scaled it up I don’t see why this shouldn’t be possible.

   Just give us wireless headphones with multiple drivers already that’s portable unlike regular headphones, I promise you will be rich.

   Have the position be just good enough to where you can mix it with a software within the headphone to do the rest of the work, like a built in Dolby based on the headphones layout.

   Literally it’s that simple, these guys overcomplicate things and still miss the point 🤦‍♂️

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4. so is a studio headphone gonna work? I don’t think so.

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5. Yeah I’m near a decade behind I have two Razer Tiamats 7.1 I’ll see what this thing is about

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