Epos Winds Down Former Sennheiser Gaming Headphone Business
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Technically the successor owner of the gaming brand.

Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company’s gaming products…

  •  sandriver   ( @sandriver@beehaw.org ) 
    4•9 months ago

    Kind of sad. I got some EPOS mic+phones for pretty cheap, albeit not as good value as just micless Sennies, and I think the space saving is actually really good. I barely have room for my mic, and it gets worse when I’m somewhere with very little desk space to work with. It seems very difficult to get something that combines all the needs of: flat frequency response and an adequate quality mic, very little by way of space requirements, and a not-outrageous price. I just fold the mic up and put it where I have space for my headset, ezpz.

    I’m open to suggestions for replacements, of course.

    •  Tibert   ( @Tibert@compuverse.uk ) 
      1•9 months ago

      One way would be to use small mics, like a lavalier mic.

      Tho they are omnidirectional, and without noise cancellation. They also aren’t as good quality as a big mic.

      Another way would be to use something like the modmic from Antlion. They have different models, but all seem worse quality for the sound than the modmic 5 they discontinued.

        •  Tibert   ( @Tibert@compuverse.uk ) 
          2•9 months ago

          That is not true at all.

          Epos “still” has great mics on the h6 pro.

          Corsair has very good mics on the premium headset (virtuoso), and the wired hs80.

          Razer also has a very good mic on the blackshark v2 pro 2023 (not the old one).

          Hyperx has a very good mic on their wired cloud 3.

          Drop x Sennheiser has a good mic on the pc38x.

          Beyerdynamic has a very good mic on their mx300 gen2

          Audio Technica has be best ever mic on a headset currently on the m50xsts (or other with the same mic, not sure if they have other similar ones).

          And all of these mic sound better than what modmic has currently not discontinued.

    •  Kaijobu   ( @Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
      1•9 months ago

      I could recommend you beyerdynamics MMX 300, however the price might be the turning point for you. But getting them in a good B-sale is totally worth it in my opinion.

      Edit: You can combine them with an Equalizer Software by downloading the wave file for the MMX 300 and applying it. I forget the name though. Something Something APO? They have a GitHub page if I am not mistaken.