If so, which ones? I am looking to game and talk to friends over discord on my Steam Deck. No FPS, more bullet hells, ARPGs, etc. Thank you!!
Yes, because my OLED’s speakers sound terrible. Especially when compared the LED I had previously.
I use a Bose QC45.
See this if your interested in knowing more: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1329
sorry I just paly with the sound on and don’t use a mic. all single play.
I don’t usually play games with friends, so I just use whatever pair I currently have available. Right now it’s just a cheap enough pair of wired over the ear skull candy headphones. Don’t know how good they’d be for things like audio calls that go on for extended periods of time, but they’ve been pretty good to me so far.
I’ve got some “fancy” $20 headphones right now. I used to use $10 headphones from Miniso, but they only last a year before one ear bud will go dead.
I’ve had expensive headphones, and have a nice pair of Sennheisers, but really it’s cheap in ear headphones most of the time for me.
They are small, and I keep them rolled up in a little pouch with a USB drive that’s pretty much always in my pocket. They never need to be charged. The audio quality is good enough that unless I start listening to FLACC files on my SD, I’m never going to notice. Their wired, so no lag or syncing issues ever. If something happens to them, I have another $10 pair tucked in a drawer, plus I can always buy more.
The Steam Deck is portable, can’t beat wired earbuds for portability and reliability.
Also, the mic is fine. The mic is on a wire, close to my mouth. It’s simple, but it makes the audio about as good as my Sennheisers. Or at least I’ve never noticed.
KSC75 with parts express headband and Yaxi pads. KSC75x has mic, but no clue how the quality of the mic is.
I use exactly this (minus the Yaxi pads), and also a pair of Grado SR80i at home.
The two sound remarkably similar. The KSC75 are just a lot more portable.
I’m a basic bitch and use my Galaxy buds. They work well enough. When docked, I have it connected to my DACAmp and blue snowball for a great audio experience.
I have mine docked under my TV but wow, the DACAmp seems awesome. I had to look that up. More money than I would like to spend but adding it for maybe a future purchase!
They’re really only necessary if your headphones are hard to drive afaik
I got a pair of Zero:2 budget earphones. Wires are annoying when you’re used to wireless, but this was a good bet. Sure my AirPods block out plane noise better, but the passive noise cancellation is perfectly adequate on these, even on flights.
For mic audio you just can’t beat a physical wire.
Edit: these are a collaboration between 7Hz, a ChiFi manufacturer with a decent reputation, and Crinacle, an audio influencer(?) who tuned their sound. They’re 20 odd US dollars and sound awesome for the price, they’re my default backup pair of earphones and sometimes I’ll even just use them when I don’t really have to. I did change the cable to a braided one, the original picked up a lot of sound rubbing against my clothes, but hey, at 20$ I expect compromises like that.
Yeah a Phillips headset with removable mic and on/mute toggle on the cord.
Works really well, happy with it but it gets warm in the summer…like I don’t need more hotness in the heat.
Sennheiser Momentum 3 bluetooth headphones. They work amazingly well.
AirPods Pro & Max. It’s so nice that you can just connect to them with the QAM now. I haven’t used them with Discord on a Steam Deck though
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I generally use Bose Bluetooth wireless headphones. I just got a set of Viture glasses so I’ll see how those speakers sound. On occasion I play without headphones, either built in speakers or no sound.
I use mine with either my Jabra 75t Bluetooth earbuds, or my big Bose over-ear ones using an aftermarket Bluetooth adapter. Both are great.
I don’t have a Steam Deck, but I do have earbuds I use with Linux, which is similar. I have the EarFun buds (3, I think), which allow connection to multiple devices at once, have good compatibility, noise reduction, long battery life, and are relatively reasonably priced, under £60.
I don’t usually use headphones with my deck, but I’ve paired my Pixel A-series buds to it and they work pretty well for discord calls.
On a plane I’ll use my Airpods Pro 2. They have worked shockingly well for the Deck being a non-Apple product.
I will say though for seemingly no reason they don’t work with God of War Ragnarok. They work fine at first but after roughly a minute, everytime I launch the game, the audio starts to get glitchy and eventually just disappears entirely until I disconnect and reconnect, when it starts that cycle over. I can’t tell in any way why it happens but it happens everytime.
