Gaming Headsets

Gaming headsets are designed to be comfortable during long gaming sessions. They come with a microphone, and their audio quality tends to focus on deeper bass.

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What to Look for When Choosing a Gaming Headset

Gaming Headsets—Design

Over-ear gaming headsets feature a padded head bridge, ensuring comfort when worn for long periods. They reproduce sound well but, due to higher weight and larger size, are less portable.
Gaming earphones usually have a lighter and smaller design (they are more portable and easier to carry). Compared to similarly expensive around-ear gaming headphones, they are not as comfortable.

Earmuffs On-ear gaming headphones

Headphones around the ears Over-ear gaming headphones

Gaming Headsets—Connection

Wired gaming headphones (3.5mm Jack, USB) provide better sound reproduction compared to similarly expensive wireless gaming headphones, though your freedom of movement is limited by the length of the cable.
Wireless gaming headphones—(Bluetooth and Radio frequency)—connect without a cable for greater freedom of movement (Bluetooth headphones have a range of about 10-30 metres from the playback device, radio frequency up to 100 meters). Wireless headphones have a built-in battery and need recharging.

Gaming Headsets—Construction

Closed-back gaming headsets let almost no sound out and cancel ambient noise.
Open-back gaming headsets - provide more faithful music reproduction (less distortion), let sound out but do not reduce ambient noise.
Semi-closed-back gaming headphones are a compromise between open and closed headphones. They let some sound out of the headphones while cancelling some ambient noise.

Gaming Headsets—Useful Features

Volume control allows you to adjust volume without pausing your game.
7.1 surround sound headphones let you hear where individual sounds are coming from.
A detachable microphone is handy when you want to enjoy listening to music without the microphone getting in the way.