[QUOTE="Riadon2"][QUOTE="Murderstyle75"]Umm you realize the A40's are only 199.99 if you buy them stand alone from the website. Right? Regular price for the Headset/Mixamp combo is 249.99. I got it on sale for 199.99 which makes the headphones in the package 70.00 vs spending 130.00 just for the mixamp. And when I said about the frequency response, where did say anything about this thread? And you still cannot tell me when exactly you heard the A40's. meanwhile pretty much every review out there for the audio system is exceptional.Murderstyle75
You said you bought the headphones themselves for $70 and the mixamp for $130. The price was deducted from the bundle, not from one specific item. Saying it like that makes it unclear.
No one who knows anything about audio buys gaming headsets. It is like Beats with their 4 star Amazon rating and universal consumer praise, ignorance is bliss.
The frequency garbage was completely irrelevant to the thread, there was no reason to include it in the first place. You were taking a shot at "audio snobs", who, in reality, couldn't care less about frequency response specs. Link to a reputable source who actually cares about such things? Unless you are a dog, there is no reason to brag about your 5-35000 response.
I also like how you brag about the Astro in every thread of this section, yet you have clearly never listened to a decent headphone in the same price range. You are clueless, and you revel in that.
How was it unclear? This is exactly what I said. "I ended up getting my A40's for 200.00. That's 130.00 for a Mixamp and 70.00 for the headphones." How much more in detail does one have to be? Especially when the only possible way to buy just the headphones for 200.00 is from the Astro website. Retailers only sell the audio system and Amazon sells just the headphones for 120.00. I really don't see what there is to explain. And the difference between you and I is, I'm not on here trying to slam other products nor an I trying to claim the A40's are the best in the world. I have simply gave some opinions on my personal experience with them and here you come sailing by on your ship of Internet superiority completely trashing something it is apparent you have never even listened to. Does Turtle Beach suck? Yes they do. Does Tritton suck? Even more so. The Sony Pulse sucks even worse yet. I'm not on here talking about it though and only called you out because of your snobby post which seems to be about nothing more than attention. C'mon. Do consumer products really get you that upset? Further more, since I have the mixamp with my purchase, I can always upgrade the cans if I ever felt like I wanted to and then resell the current headphones for more than they even cost me vs spending $130 on the mixamp and then buying seperate headphones. Since I bought at Best Buy, I was also able to trade my accumulated rewards points in for the two year replacement plan. What this means is if the next gen consoles are not compatable with the current mixamp, all I have to do is find a way for the current system not to function correctly whether it be the mixamp or headphones and get what would probably be the updated 2014 model at no charge. Shady? Yes. Do I give a shit? No. But would I spend $130 for the mixamp online and then even more for other headphones with no way to return any of it if I didnt like my purchase? I'm really not that dumb. And I never said I had a reputable source for frequency response. Its pretty much from un-reputable message boards just like this one full of users voicing their own Amazon consumer like opinion. Then I brought it to their attention that the mixamp can only output 20/20000 and got flamed by a guy with an attitude not much different than yours. Wow. I said some nice things about my headphones which sound a lot better than my last pair. That must make you very angry for some unknown reason.$200 for the combo instead of $250 could mean that the money was subtracted from the headphones, mixamp, or both. It could have also meant that you bought the headphones themselves for $70 and then the mixamp separately for $130. How exactly do you know that the headphones were the only discounted item in the bundle? Better yet, how should we know?
Here you go "bashing things you haven't tried". Way to be a hypocrite. Turtle Beach and Sony Pulse do suck, but they do not suck on a higher level than the A40. The HPX and Pulse are actually better than the A40s, which goes to show how much you know.
You argue that your headphones sound great for the pricerange and that the "convenience" makes them worth it. You bash "audio snobs" for disagreeing. One of your points in trying to classify me as such is that... you saw some moron bragging about frequency response on some random message board...? Come on. You go on every single thread in this section and brag about a cheap "gamer" toy. You sound like a paid advertiser half of the time. You can enjoy the headset all you want, just shut up about it being "better" than other options, because more often than not it isn't.
TLDR: You are a clueless moron and should leave this section.
These. Except mine look really beat up. I have duct tape wrapped along the outside of the foam ears for slight bass increase, the paint marking the L and R have rubbed off entirely, and it fits really loosely on the head. I've put a lot of hours into them. I've had them for probably 5 years now. They sound amazing through my Auzentech Forte and good enough through my Zune and cell-phone. I wish I had a headphone amp so I could listen to them with my Cambridge DACMagic, but they lack the required amping for decent response. :( But it's a lot of fun using them with the Forte. These headphones are incredibly detailed. Their soundstage isn't too shabby either - when playing DayZ I turn on CMSS-3D and it's hilarious how easy I can pick out other survivors' footsteps and track them purely on the basis of sound. It's also fun hearing gunshots far off in the distance and being able to distinctly feel which specific buildings they actually came from.
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