The Hardware Review – Sennheiser GSP 550 Gaming Headset

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Sennheiser. Just the name should be enough to send tingles down the spine of any real audio buff. The company behind a complete line-up of offerings for the audio fan with everything from relatively cheap but good quality in ear buds to replace the rubbish that came with your phone all the way up to the legendary and downright audacious $55,000 Orpheus. Yes, you did read that right, Sennheiser actually made a pair of headphones that cost more than a car. In a day and age of publicly traded companies and boring sounding business phrases like “return on investment” Sennheiser is one of the few privately held firms that takes a longer term view of things like this and from time to time will go completely bonkers with an offering like Orpheus to simply show what it can do if it lets its engineers loose to just make the best headphones they can with the expectation that halo products such as this may contain technologies, innovations and learnings experiences which will eventually filter down to more mainstream products.

I’ve had a few different gaming headsets since I came back to PC gaming in earnest 5 years ago, mostly with varying degrees of “semi-lapsed audiophile geeks shouldn’t buy gaming headsets” conclusions. Don’t get me wrong, some of them are not bad, but there’s a lot of very average, overpriced kit out there which sells because someone got a pair of bog standard mediocre headphones plugged a mic in and slapped the tag “Gaming” on them with a snazzy logo and maybe some RGB. Razer Tiamat 7.1 discrete, HyperX Cloud II and of course the never materialised Ossic X which collapsed after crowdfunding have all graced my personal “gaming audio” story. I’ve toyed with the idea of getting a proper amp and hooking it up to my PC but haven’t had the time so I’ve generally stayed somewhat disappointed with gaming audio headsets.

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Edited October 30, 2018 by Mr.Daniel ♔♔♔
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