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Looking into headphones for audio directional accuracy

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August 21, 2014 7:08:52 PM

Not sure if this is the best place to drop this question, but at this point I am desperate for a straight answer. I've been looking for headphones for audio directional accuracy for quiet some time now. I've read up around the internet and each and every other website's answer is different. I currently own Astro A40s, Audio-Techinica ATH-M50s, and Platronic Gamecon 780s with the audio directional accuracy being in that order. The A40s still aren't anything to write home about, I still have issues pinpointing where sounds are coming from close by, but my main issue is pinpointing sounds from far away, in games like ARMA3 and DayZ. I've done burn-ins with each headset for at least 300 hours. What do you recommend? I have money to spend, but I don't want to blow $1500 on a pair of headphones either. I have a Creative Labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-bit 96 KHz Sound Card, do I need to upgrade? Any help is appreciated.

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August 21, 2014 7:29:25 PM

My son plays ARMA and lotta Flight Sims, he's a pilot and uses a full pilot rig with Thunderbolt Flight Stick / Throttle, Head Mouse (when you turn head, planes turrets follow head movement) and ..... oh yeah and this ya might find useful.

http://rog.asus.com/technology/rog-sound-innovations/so...

Standing up one day, he ripped out the cord of his $450 Sennhesiers ....

http://en-us.sennheiser.com/pc-gaming-headset

and borrowed his brother's Logitech G930 "cordless".... he seems to prefer the cordless to any drop in sound quality which he calls "unnoticeable".....needless to say, since he grew up in an audiophile household, I was surprised .... bit a headset fan myself.

In the audiophile world, the Sennheisers were generally considered "the bomb" in my day but I haven't even turned on my system in 5 years.
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