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Looked Promising...

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I purchased these headphones less than 1 month ago and am returning them for the 2nd time due to issues with them. The first return was due to the fact that after owning them for 1 week they snapped into 2 pieces, so I figured I had just gotten a bad egg, now the provided USB cable has completely stopped working. I used a different compatable USB cable and they work just fine. Creative used to be a good name in my book, but as of late between the almost non-existance of customer support and poor craftsmanship I would STAY AWAY FROM CREATIVE PRODUCTS!! This is the second headset I have purchased and will be my last the first was Creative Labs HS-1000 Fatal1ty USB Gaming Headset with Sound Blaster X-Fi Technology (Black) and only lasted about 6 months. If you want a good quaity headset I would recomend going with the SteelSeries Siberia Full-Size USB Headset (White) or the Razer Megalodon 7.1 Surround Sound USB Gaming Headset (Black)

Great, but I wish it was not a USB headset

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The versaitily and universaly usefulness of a normal set of headphones far outweight the fun factor of USB and the nifty capabilities contained herein. The microphone gets flakey and garbles the sound now and then as well (even with the voice changing stuff completely disabled). Probably need to return it.

The headset that changed my gaming experience

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Overall, I would have to say that this headset is just about as awesome as I expected. The sound quality is amazing in-game, and the wireless feature really makes a difference. In fact, once I had to leave my computer to talk to my mother three rooms away and the wireless feature allowed me to talk to her, while still letting me keep tabs on what was happening back on the game. When the sound of a dungeon invite came across my speakers, I was able to hear it and get back to my computer in time to accept the invite. For all of the people who know what I'm talking about, this is rather important, seeing as you can wait in a queue for a dungeon from anywhere between 5 minutes to half an hour. As I've had times where I end up being booted out of the queue because I took a 3min trip to the bathroom, the wireless feature really took away the frustration.

Anyway, I also love the structure of the headset itself. I've often received the comment that I look like mission control during a launch, but I feel incredibly comfortable, so I don't care. Plus, it looks pretty bad a** when compared to other headsets. I also love the changing colors on the earpieces themselves (i've forgotten their name), and the settings are easy to use. The detachable mic is also a major plus, because it's just extraneous material that could possibly be damaged when not voice-chatting. It also makes the headset look slightly more normal, especially in public, where people give you funny looks when they see you have a microphone headset on. With the mic detached, you look slightly more normal, with really cool looking professional seeming headphones on.

As for the voice changing capabilities, I have mixed feelings. The settings are easy to use, and there are multiple voices to choose from, but I do wish that there was more variance between settings. i love the malganis and felguard ones, but I feel that the gnome, dwarf, and female bloodelf settings all sound like gnome. This could be because this product isn't exactly geared toward female players, and we tend to have higher voice pitches, but I'm not sure. I just felt it was sort of a let down when those voices sounded very similar and too high pitched in some cases. Also, I would love it if there were more voice changing selections, or even if there was a custom setting where you could increase or decrease pitch to the level you want for each setting. That may actually be an option, but I have not found it as of yet. If I really had to get picky, I would ask for a more detailed manual, or even tips and tricks to go with it.

Otherwise, this headset is the best I've had!

Fantastic for wow and only wow

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I love the Sound Blaster World Of Warcraft (wow) wired headset! The cord is almost like a cloth material which was both cool and unexpected. The headset has the alliance lenses already on it when you open the box. It was a little hard to find the horde lens, I easily could have thrown the box away if I didn't know the alliance and horde lenses were separate. There's a lot of fun voices and controls in the audio control panel ( that's the software download from sound blaster). When I finally used the headset w/ wow I was amazed at all the sounds I was missing in game! My only complaint is the headset works only for wow and ventrillo. If I had youtube or itunes playing it would only come through the computer's speakers, never the headset.
And btw who ever said these were fragile was sadly mistaken.

A must have for the WOW player

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Headphones are great, it took me a day to get use to them squeezing my head but after a day either they gave a bit or crushed my head.
The sound is excellent, I have a step below the Bose speakers for my computer and the sound out of the headphones is exceptional. Didn;t have any issues, just plug and play it updated automatically, the voices are fun to play with for about an half and hour then you stop, and use them for what you bought it for, Playing WOW.

Loved it because no cord to get in the way or get torn up (the reason for me buying them) and great proformance right out of the box