Turtle Beach TBS-2114 Earforce HPA2 5.1 Surround Sound Headset with Amplifier and Removable Microphone

Pros: Excellent highs and lows. Music really sounds good. Played COD4 at Exile Lan Party while wearing these helped out alot. Positional sound was good, not great. You can hear in which direction a nade fell however incoming fire was hard to detect unless you could see it.

Cons: Lost one star due to bad mic. It wasn't the mic itself, it was the wiring inside the inline control module. We tested it on 2 other PC's and got the same result. At this price it's uncalled for. Alittle tight on the head but was comfortable after extended use.

Overall Review: This is a good headset with the potential to be excellent if QC could get it together. If you buy these and your friends are complaining of popping and static from your mic, RMA IMMEDIATELY.

Pros: true 5.1 on a headset. excellent design. long cable. the base effect is very strong. it comes with fine tuning adopter for all 8 speakers. comfortable but require some "get used to"

Cons: the headset is clam designed, so might require sometime to "get used to". require a lot of fine tuning on the user's part, as the surround effect is different for every sound card/system. still not as good as a real 5.1 speaker system - it is close

Overall Review: The clam feature is a truly deal breaker here. I don't know if it is because of my "big" ears or something, this clam design/feeling certainly requires me to take sometime to "get used to". It is totally different from the traditional over-the-ear feeling i had with my Plantronic 377 gamer headset. As with all surround sound systems, they require some fine tuning before they actually sound good. This headset is no different from those systems. when i first open up the package, and plugged into my system. It sounds good, but on the low side. after 20-30 minutes playing around with the speaker's setting, I'm able to adjust it very close to my real 5.1 system. The setting I find it to work is: Front - 6.5, Surround - 5, Bass - 4.5, Center - 7

Pros: 5.1 Sounds great! Don't waste your money on worthless 2.1 headsets that costs 100+ dollars, buy this instead!

Cons: None.

Overall Review: If you are getting "chirping" or Feedback aka"flat-line" then I have your solution. It's not the headset, its your sound card. Reduce your windows/soundcard volume below 75%, go lower as necessary to eliminate those pesky sounds (mine is 30%). Now go to your AMP and turn all the knobs below 8 and turn up the AMP Volume. What we are doing here is eliminating the ability for the AMP to pickup feedback hence the low output volume in Windows. This should solve the problems for most people I would assume.

Pros: *The HPA surround sound is in my opinion the second best surround sound setup in a headset next to the Psyko audio headset which is just outrageously expensive. And not practical for most gamers. *One of the lowest if not THE lowest priced true surround headsets around. *Detachable mic

Cons: *The headset is very comfortable, however I find that during certain days when I use them for a long period of time that my ears begin to hurt a little bit. But his could just be how my ears are shapped or something like that so i'm not going to count it against the headset. *No mic mute button

Overall Review: Ive read in quite a few different review that people complain about sound quality, one thing that you must understand is that you must turn your computers volume down to only about a quarter of its total volume. I'm no sound expert, but I do know that whenever using high end headsets like these with built in amps that it can cause really distorted sounds if the computers volume is up to high. So simply turn down the computer volume and turn up the headset volume on the amp. But all in all a great headset.

Pros: Great sound. 5.1 BASS is amazing other speaker ranges are really good.

Cons: DO NOT PUT YOUR CELLPHONE ANYWHERE NEAR THE AMP. I had an incoming call, and some of the worst interference came through. Really high frequency. (on the plus side these things get up in that range.) The price is a bit high. with free shipping it would have been more palatable.

Overall Review: Cod4 sounds great. I can now tell exactly where people are coming from. Turn full range speakers off in sound configuration. It helped clarity. Control Panel-> Sound-> Right click Speakers-> Properties-> Enhancement Tab-> Bass managment CHECKED Loudness Equalization CHECKED.

Pros: Compared to other similar products these are a bargain deal. The sound is absolutely fantastic and very full. Very filling bass and clear high and low frequencies. It is not as good as 5.1 speakers but its very close.

Cons: These are not as simple as plug and play and everything is peachy. They do need to be setup and balanced. Also depending on your computers noise level, as in if your Power Supply does not make clean currents it can run interference through the USB. Though this is not the Headset fault but rather do to low grade hardware or a poor wall outlet. Using a powerstrip with a filter or a BackUp battery with filter can clean this noise. Using a Power Supply with an 80% efficieny rating will also improve the noise over the current.

Overall Review: Using these with an Auzentech X-Fi Forte. Dials to 7 center, 4.5 surround, 4.5 front, 4 bass. Again these headsets do perform differently dependant on setup so take some time and fine tune your sound card and headset untill you find the sweet spot.

Pros: Awesome head set, sound quality is the best I've used, great price for this product. If your looking for something that is quiet for the environment around you, but a loud experience when it comes to gaming then this is a headset for you!

Cons: None that I can think of.

Pros: -Great Sound Quality -Nice Price -After hrs of gaming, my head and neck dont bother me

Cons: -After One month of ownership, the right-side speakers and subwoofer blew. I never really turned it up to loud, played dungeon siege 2, came back from a party and as soon as i put it on my right side wasnt working at all.

Overall Review: Not sure if it was fualty wiring or just a bad headset made from production but i babied the headset ever since i opened the package, never dropped it, hit it or anything. Maybe put the volume up to 75%. Turtle Beachs email support/ customer support was a hassle, Constantly being redirected to different deparments, re-sending my information such as address/ explanations, etc... having to repeat myself over and over was a bother. So far it has been 11 business days, and i cannot contact them until 20 business days after the recieve date if it doesnt come back. -So in the end i give it a 4 out of 5 because of the lack of customer experience i have encountered.