Here’s something I’ve never understood.
There is an obsession with gaming headsets for playing FPS games to give you a competitive edge - helping you pinpoint footsteps and other sounds to figure out where your opponents are. This, I assume, comes purely down to how well the headset can recreate the stereo image.
Which is weird to me because headphones are known to be quite misleading re: the stereo image! As a producer, I would never 100% trust mixes on headphones and would need to check the imaging on studio monitors. If they are calibrated with something like Sonarworks, Dirac or Genelec GLM, the precision of the stereo imaging is second to none.
So for the sake of argument, is it true that calibrated studio monitors actually give you more of a competitive edge than headphones? Or is there something that I’m missing?
Others have said it better than I could have, personally I prefer speakers now (2.1 set-up with the sub feeding the speakers) but headphones are nice especially if you are using voice chat and need to hear what your friends are saying.
I will say, having a subwoofer completely changed my experience. I have the massdrop 3xx (JBL 305 5 inch), and I added the matching sub for it… It is nice, the soundtrack to ghostrunner 1 is chef’s kiss