tldr; Open-back studio reference. Needs no amp, neutral tuning. Incredible detail but divisive for gaming—some find it too analytical.
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“# Music Gaming Sound Style Guide (Auto Message) This is a sneak peek at the 2022 version of the guide. The 2022 version will include the auto message here, along with a version of this on my personal Sub, and a very in-depth version on my website. For now, this is a slight alteration of the 2021 auto message but with 2022 Q1 updated spreadsheet included. The goal for December is to update all the auto messages first, repost all the guideposts on my sub (this will happen anytime the guide changes as I can't change reddit post titles). Once the Website guide is up please use that as I'm so limited on reddit that the reddit versions have to be so cut down. So your find the website guide so much more helpful. I couldn't even include notes here. Full External Website Link (Coming Late 2021-Q1 2022) **Index (READ FIRST)** 1. **Music Gaming**: This "Sound Style" focuses on "Technical Performance" and "Tonal Balance". If you plan on playing games but don't really care about positioning or immersion as much and just want really damn good-sounding headphones look here. This is pretty much a condensed version of what I think is the best headphones and headsets on the market from a sound quality point of view. You can treat this as a sneak peek or a simplified version of the full headphone guide I plan to put out for people not interested in gaming. That guide will put a lot more focus on Technical ability and not as much on tonal balance as Tonal Balance can lean more into preference and EQ can fix some tonal issues. 2. **Alpha Value:** This is the Alpha Version of my grade ranking for headphones. This will change over time. 3. **Grades:** You will see every headphone/headset has two grades. The **1st Grade** being its **Tonal Grade**, this is the grade for how well its sound signature is tonally balanced. The **2nd Grade** is its **Tech Grade**, so all things outside of the frequency response, staging, imaging, separation, detail, dynamics, etc. 4. **PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE CLOSED-BACK RANKS WITH OPEN-BACK ONES AT THIS TIME!** 5. **Rankings are not everything:** Which is why Notes and Sound Signatures are important, but you must view the full guide to see those. 6. **Sound Signature VS Sound Style:** Sound Signature is the tuning of the frequency response. Sound Style is my term for the different categories I put headphones in for gaming. 7. **EQ/VSS:** If you need to use some light eq to help, go for it just be careful. Maybe even Virtual Surround Sound(VSS) if you can't position with stereo. I don't recommend VSS but some need it. 8. **Mod Mic:** A Mod mic isn't a category of mics it's a product line of attachable Mic made by antlion that can turn any headphone into a Gaming headset. 9. **External USB/XLR Mic:** If you plan to buy an XLR/USB mic for gaming please get a Dynamic mic, it will cancel out background noise better. (Don't buy a Yeti/quadcast/snowball) 10. **IMPORTANT:** Names with a bold **(X)** at the end of their name mean I don't recomm”
“Avoid Beyer and corsair. # Competitive FPS Sound Style Guide (Auto Message) This is a sneak peek at the 2022 version of the guide. The 2022 version will include the auto message here, along with a version of this on my personal Sub, and a very in-depth version on my website. For now, this is a slight alteration of the 2021 auto message but with 2022 Q1 updated spreadsheet included. The goal for December is to update all the auto messages first, repost all the guideposts on my sub (this will happen anytime the guide changes as I can't change reddit post titles). Once the Website guide is up please use that as I'm so limited on reddit that the reddit versions have to be so cut down. So your find the website guide so much more helpful. I couldn't even include notes here. Full External Website Link (Coming Late 2021-Q1 2022) **Index (READ FIRST)** 1. **Comp FPS:** This Category is slightly different than it was before as now it does sacrifice a bit more sound quality in favour of positioning performance. Some headphones listed will fall below my standards like the AD series. But if all you care about is "Pure FPS" performance this is where you look. They will still all be better than a lot of the gaming crap that isn't even tuned well for games that you see on the market. So while yes, some won't hit my standards for Music they are better than a lot of the consumer crap you see. 2. **Open Back Only:** Yes, I have changed it to Open-Back only and that is because there really aren't any Closed-Back headphones that truly offer Pure FPS performance. If you can't do open-back for your own reasons but still want something that can be great for FPS check the Warm FPS category. As most closed-backs that are good for FPS tend to have a warmer tilt to them. 3. **Alpha Value:** This is the Alpha Version of my grade ranking for headphones. This will change over time. 4. **Alpha Positioning:** This is the Alpha Version of my positioning ranking for headphones. This will change over time. This is far from perfect. 5. **Grades:** You will see every headphone/headset has two grades. The **1st Grade** being its **Tonal Grade**, this is the grade for how well its sound signature is tonally balanced. The **2nd Grade** is its **Tech Grade**, so all things outside of the frequency response, staging, imaging, separation, detail, dynamics, etc. 6. **PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE CLOSED-BACK RANKS WITH OPEN-BACK ONES AT THIS TIME!** 7. **Rankings are not everything:** Which is why Notes and Sound Signatures are important, but you must view the full guide to see those. 8. **Sound Signature VS Sound Style:** Sound Signature is the tuning of the frequency response. Sound Style is my term for the different categories I put headphones in for gaming. 9. **EQ/VSS:** If you need to use some light eq to help, go for it just be careful. Maybe even Virtual Surround Sound(VSS) if you can't position with stereo. I don't recommend VSS but some need it. 10. **Mod Mic:** A Mod mic isn't a c”
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