Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Turtle Beach 'Ear Force' Headphones, X-51 and HPA (aka The Perfect BattleField 2 Headphones?)

Turtle Beach 'Ear Force' Headphones, X-51 and HPA : Gizmodo

"Turtle Beach is showing off their new 'Ear Force' line of headphones, designed for gamers and movie watchers who want 5.1 surround sound without dealing with actual speakers. The X-51 is a folding pair, while the HPA are an amplified, slightly higher-end pair. The X-51s can be had now for around $80, while the HPAs are on pre-order. Both models come with a boom mic, suitable for voice chat or just hearing yourself breathe from each of the headphones 8 speakers (center, rear, and front on one layer, with subwoofer on top. Pretty crazy)."

Oh yeah, I think I've found my BattleField 2 headphones...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nobody but gamespot has a review so far and I don't particularly trust them to give reviews of hardware.

However, I do trust turtle beach as a brand name. 8 speakers...so inviting. Thing is, from the pictures it doesn't look like the HPA can remove the jacks that go into the soundcard so that you can plug it into an mp3 player. Bummer. Nevertheless, I'm fairly sure I'm buying this given that no scathingly bad reviews somehow pop up in the near future.

Breathlessly waiting for reviews...

Greg said...

Yeah, Turtle Beach is a name I "like" too...

If you do get it, please let me know how you like them.

It's hard enough talking my CFO (err.. my loving wife... yeah...) into these things.

Having a real world review sure would help... :)

Thanks again for posting...