I mostly play open world games such as the Horizon series, The Elder Scrolls series, God of War, Assassin’s Creed, etc. You get the picture.

I have used consumer grade PAs (colloquially “speakers”), studio monitors, in-ear headphones and now, finally, I am trying out over-ear headphones.

I don’t remember what PAs I used to use, but my studio monitors were the German Adam A5X. Gaming with these, I could feel the ambience, soundtrack or whatever sound resonating in my chest. Boss battles were intimidating on a new level. The A5Xs are now “retired”, working part-time for my pseudo home theater (just an old T480 - connected to a TV - being used as a media player to play back Linux ISOs that reside on my server). The in-ear headphones were the, again, German Sennheiser IE-900. The sound was out of this world. At least the balance. The immersion level of any game just skyrocketed. But the immersion was somehow limited or confined to my ears or to their immediate surroundings. Now, finally, I am gaming with the, yet again, German over-ear headphones DT 700 PRO X of beyerdynamics. The sound quality of the Adam A5X and the immersion of the Sennheiser IE-900 are all there, but instead of being limited to my ears, it’s like the sound is perforating all the cavities in my head. I can taste the sound. The band or orchestra seems to be right there, behind me. I don’t think I will be going back to anything else. Hot damn.

  • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    DT-990 Pros. Open backed so I can hear kids if they need me, but lovely sound when it’s quiet.

    If I only my 3080 didn’t sound like a jet engine

      • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I get mine broken on eBay and fix them, usually just a loose wire. The plastic side clasps always break, beware!

    • emotional_soup_88@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      Sweet! My closed headphones isolate even the sound of the doorbell, so people kind of need to text me if they plan to visit while I’m gaming xD

      Which model/maker of the 3080 do you have? I have the Asus TUF Gaming OC version and while it sounds like an inspired fan, it’s not quite a jet engine… But then again, I only game at 1080p (but with ultra settings) because with my 24 inch monitor I kind of have a good pixel density anyway ^^

      • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 hours ago

        It’s an unlikely scenario, but if you have a doorbell that can be “connected” to, like ring or aqara you could set a light (hue, inner, generic ZigBee etc) to flash when the doorbell rings. I had a rube Goldberg setup for the time before I discovered open back monitors 😀

        I’ll be real, I don’t know the manufacturer because it was a second hand pre built. An old hp omen that I replaced mobo and CPU (and somehow I didn’t take note… getting lazy on my old age)

        I do roll 1440p and whatever settings get me 120 FPS. Nothing competitive