Which headphone would you prefer?

mclaren85 · Tuesday at 9:30 PM

Hello, There are two MSI headphones, GH20 vs GH30 v2. At the moment they are both the same price at amazon turkey. Which one would you choose at this price? (approx. 20$)

IMMERSE GH30 V2

www.msi.com

IMMERSE GH20

www.msi.com

caroline! · Tuesday at 9:52 PM

Can I vote none?

Gaming headsets are a major scam.

erocker · Tuesday at 9:56 PM

20 bucks you can't really go wrong. The difference is open back vs. closed back. That's your preference.

kapone32 · Tuesday at 9:56 PM

The GHV30 V2 as this is a 2nd gen for MSI so they would have corrected most issues from the first Gen.

80-watt Hamster · Tuesday at 9:57 PM

caroline! said:
Can I vote none?

Gaming headsets are a major scam.

Not helpful. And at $20, who cares?

They look to have the same drivers (probably), so that's not much of a consideration. The GH30 is a little more versatile with the foldable chassis, detachable mic and 3.5mm splitter. If none of that is important, comfort is the likely differentiator. The GH20 looks to have deeper cups.

mclaren85 · Tuesday at 9:57 PM

You can suggest any other brand too for 20$

kapone32 · Tuesday at 9:58 PM

mclaren85 said:
You can suggest any other brand too for 20$

Corsair Void is not bad

mclaren85 · Tuesday at 11:06 PM

Thanks everyone

I think MSI has a long way to go to catch Asus in headpone&sound area.

Bill_Bright · Tuesday at 11:11 PM

Which headphone would you prefer?

The one that sounded better to "my" ears while sitting on top of "my" head.

Point? Only you can answer that - for you.

SpittinFax · Tuesday at 11:12 PM

80-watt Hamster said:
Not helpful. And at $20, who cares?

Everybody should care.

Objectively speaking, the inner ear is a delicate instrument that can't be easily fixed if it gets damaged. Cheap audio is only designed to work, not protect your hearing. So if there's a bunch of destructive frequencies in there that will do damage then......whoops. You won't notice it until the damage is already done after many hours of use. Not to mention all the people who have to suffer from listening to that cheap mic.

mclaren85 · Tuesday at 11:18 PM

caroline! said:
So if there's a bunch of destructive frequencies

Do you mean that some higher-end headphones have a filter to block those harmful frequencies?

80-watt Hamster · 2022-09-21T00:31:06+0100

SpittinFax said:
Everybody should care.

Objectively speaking, the inner ear is a delicate instrument that can't be easily fixed if it gets damaged. Cheap audio is only designed to work, not protect your hearing. So if there's a bunch of destructive frequencies in there that will do damage then......whoops. You won't notice it until the damage is already done after many hours of use. Not to mention all the people who have to suffer from listening to that cheap mic.

The mic, sure. That's guaranteed to be crap. You're going to need to point me at a white paper or something on the damage thing, though. Amplitude is what damages ears AFAIK, not frequency. So unless these drive severely abnormal levels of infrasound or something, color me skeptical.

SpittinFax · 2022-09-21T01:29:13+0100

80-watt Hamster said:
The mic, sure. That's guaranteed to be crap. You're going to need to point me at a white paper or something on the damage thing, though. Amplitude is what damages ears AFAIK, not frequency. So unless these drive severely abnormal levels of infrasound or something, color me skeptical.

Sure, just allow me to search for white papers on "The Damaging Impacts of $20 Gaming Headsets on Human Hearing". I'm sure there's plenty of them.

If we want to split hairs on technicalities, then yes, it's the the amplitude that does the damage. But it's not always at audible frequencies, which is why I said "frequency" instead. Point is, cheap audio is not designed to be gentle on hearing.

E.g.:

mclaren85 · 2022-09-22T18:40:47+0100

Well I end up choosing Gh-30 v2. Thanks everyone who've contributed my decision. Here are the some pictures. It has MSI's outstanding quality.

Bill_Bright · 2022-09-22T18:44:12+0100

And how does it sound?

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Which headphone would you prefer?

mclaren85

IMMERSE GH30 V2

IMMERSE GH20

caroline!

erocker

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kapone32

80-watt Hamster

mclaren85

kapone32

mclaren85

Bill_Bright

SpittinFax

mclaren85

80-watt Hamster

SpittinFax

mclaren85

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