Do the 5.1 Stereo Headphones Really Work?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 26, 2004 @08:20AM from the living-up-to-the-hype dept.

Tamor asks: "Zalman, the company behind some extremely high quality PC noise-reducing products are now selling real 5.1 surround sound headphones. The surround effect is achieved by placing 3 drivers in each ear-piece. As a geek-with-young-family this product's pushing all the right buttons for me, it looks cool, and means I can finally achieve surround sound without waking the kids. Or does it? I was sure that to place a sound spatially your brain relies on the delay between hearing the sound in one ear and then the other. If your left ear only hears the left 3 channels, and your right ear only hears the right 3 channels isn't this making it more difficult for spatial placement to happen? Do you know if/how these are achieving surround effect if each ear is only hearing half of the audio field?"

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google? by iamjim · 2004-01-26 08:33 · Score: 5, Informative

reviews found at:

bigbrui.com, overclockersclub.com, modthebox.com, pcextreme.net, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech.com, etc...
Not to be snarky: by attaboy · 2004-01-26 08:42 · Score: 5, Informative

But the Zalman product page that you linked to in your post had links to several online reviews. Were those insufficient? I found them to give me all the information that I would need to make a $40 purchase...
www.rbmods.com
www.hardextreme.org

http://www.fastlanehw.com
www.itpro.no

www.hardware-testdk.com

ohls-place.com

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