Counter-Strike Headsets

Posted by Dev at 00:37 21/6/2003.

VALVe have teamed up with Plantronics to bring you Counter-Strike™ Headsets for Voice Communication. The specially created headsets do actually look pretty decent. Here a quote from the press release:

Valve, creators of Counter-Strike and Half-Life(R), and Plantronics, a leading manufacturer of computer headsets, today unveiled a custom Counter-Strike headset. Based on the Plantronics' popular DSP-500, this plug-and-play USB headset features DSP technology and Counter-Strike's distinctive branding. Generating over 4.5 billion player minutes per month, Counter-Strike is the number 1 online action game in the world.

You can find the headset right here (top one) as well as all the other available Plantronics headsets, including the original DSP-500 PC Headset. For me it seems the only difference is the colour and the adition of a few 'Counter-Strike logos', however the DSP-500 are a good headset so it doesn't surprise me VALVe chose this for their marketing. Another reason this interested me was that if VALVe are expanding CS merchandise then there must be some form of long term future planned for Counter-Strike, in what form however remains to be seen.

Source: PHL

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	Carzy 00:38 21/6/2003	those colours look s***e [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dev theb0g 00:40 21/6/2003	/me imagines all the SK gamer sets and CS headsets at ukt4 =D Good stuff though, i like things like this :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Roguey 00:41 21/6/2003	steep price though, is it really worth it? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ge0ff 00:42 21/6/2003	isn't it just a dsp-500 with different logos and colours? /me remembers the SK gui [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dev theb0g 00:42 21/6/2003	I forgot who had some of the origional DSP 500's might of been DArtagnan and lil, not 100% but I saw some floating at UKT 1 in February so ask around get some opinions. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Roguey 00:45 21/6/2003	always something to add to my other random items list people can buy me :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	kirium 00:53 21/6/2003	id rather be seen in a pink tank top with "i llike c**k" written on the back then to have one of these headfones sitting on my desk [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	sw!tch 01:01 21/6/2003	hmm i saw these a few months ago :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rav0r Croydon 01:10 21/6/2003	DSP 500's are very good, but those colours?! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	r3n Team-kill 01:16 21/6/2003	lol at the woman getting taken from behind on that site tbh. and my sennheiser HD580's own any "plantronics" pff [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	poog Disturbed 01:18 21/6/2003	fred from a raging homosexual thats not much of a statement really [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Drenz 01:20 21/6/2003	id rather be seen in a pink tank top with "i llike c**k" written on the back then to have one of these headfones sitting on my desk i heard pink was ur favourite colour nick [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	`NWA 01:26 21/6/2003	that pic with the woman getting taken from behind - wtf do you need a mic headset for in a driving game? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	zeLL unicon.cs 01:51 21/6/2003	lol [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Del` Sniper's Alley 02:05 21/6/2003	If anyone uses a PC as much as people who post regularly on UKT, they should have Senn HD600 headphones. £120 may seem a lot for headphones, but f*, if you heard them, anyone would say it's a f*ing bargain. And when you see how much a decent surround speaker system costs, which the HD600s will trounce in every department (it's reckoned you have to spend upwards of £3K on stereo hi-fi speakers to get the same quality of sound as the 600s produce), they look even better. I'm rambling on, yes, but really the HD600s (or even more expensive headphones) should be at the top of everyones shopping list. It's impossible to convince people of this until they actually hear what they sound like though, oh well. Listening to music through my old £40 headphones, being used to the 600s is as frustrating to me as using a flaky 14" monitor at 60hz refresh after being used to a decent quality 21". [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	VespR 02:11 21/6/2003	I got the HD590s and I swear by them. Besides I've got an Audigy Player and using USB headphones with that would just be criminal :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 02:37 21/6/2003	DSP500's are good yeah [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ObZ^ 09:25 21/6/2003	i got dsp 500 i like those colours tho :D [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Quicky 10:27 21/6/2003	good headphones but u gotta be sad to buy them.. original dps 500's are much better [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	itch 12:04 21/6/2003	Sennheiser > Plantronics :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	poly The Bomb Squad 12:30 21/6/2003	is it common place to spend that much on headphones? could it be that all these years of me failing at counter-strike could have something to do with my air-india in flight entertainment headphones? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 12:34 21/6/2003	those "cs" headphones are incredibly good just shame about the coulours :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Pimpboy feo 12:35 21/6/2003	and my spelling :/ [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 12:56 21/6/2003	Oh and my view of the DSP's is very biased cos I didnt pay for them :) But they are very good and im sure worth the money. Mine recently stopped working after about 16months which is pretty good going for me. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	silva` ForsakeN 13:52 21/6/2003	My pc crashes when i use USB connection :( .audio 90 ones from plantronics are good enough imo [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	MagiciaN^ Jay Bee Eye! 14:20 21/6/2003	audio 90s are c**k .. i killed 3 pairs in 7 months [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SunShip 14:42 21/6/2003	sennheiser sound nice yes but are more geared towards flat responce monitioring and studio production so its nice to have a dsp500 with a bass go boom and USB no soundcard needed there ideal for these ridiculious Small PC's you see nowdays [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Messiah Game2XS.Monkey Magic 16:03 21/6/2003	yeh i had 3 pairs of audio 90's in about 6months before the DSP's cos they just break so easily [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	yates 16:10 21/6/2003	plantronics break easily, f***ing cheap pos [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Del` Sniper's Alley 16:53 21/6/2003	lol sunship, I have to turn the bass down if I listen to certain tracks at higher volumes with my HD600s because the cans actually shake the side of my head, it's quite unpleasant. As for using them with CS, there's not really much advantage as the quality of SFX in CS is so crap. They're really for music, but if you have a pair you won't want to listen to music through anything else [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	wibble 17:50 21/6/2003	They look well nice, but not worth the money i doubt :] [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	mortiz 00:17 22/6/2003	109 Dollars, I think not =OOO [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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