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Wearing a pair LTB-USB-M True 5.1 Headphones is like strapping on a chorus of angels singing you to heaven... expect you're more likely to be wearing them for a PC game (or other PC multimedia)... So, better said but to further analogy, should that chorus of angels suddenly whip out their ak47s, toss grenades and call in air-strikes upon each other, it'll sound heavenly.
As the name suggest, the LTB-USB-M offers true 5.1, 6 channel surround sound (as opposed to the emulated surround of typical stereo 'phones) by way of multiple speakers, six of them, in fact, separated into independent speaker chambers in each earpiece, which also manage to spoof a subwoofer with remarkable bombasticicity. As a headset (as apposed to mere headphones), the LTB-USB-M also has a removable, a high-quality, noise cancellation boom mike that clips into (or out of) the left earpiece.
The set itself jacks into a USB adapter with its own integrated multi-channel sound card chip and headphone amplifier with volume control, which, in turn, plugs into the USB port on your computer. It's instantly recognized by Windows as a generic headset, but you'll want to install the included Xear 3D Sound software for HRTF, 3D, EAX, Dolby Digital DSP functionally if you want to hear those surrounded angels in all their war faring glory.
That said, you also need to be a technically-inclined audiophile as the unit's EQ and ambience settings require much fiddling and tweakage, and the documentation is in brutally transcribed broken English. Worth the effort, though.
Reviewed: May. 12, 2005
Type: Game Enhancer, Peripheral
From: LTB
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