Universal PC/Stereo Gaming Headset – Yapster TM-YB100A – Black
- Yapster features a very comfortable over the ear design with a padded headband that will provide hours of enjoyment
- The drop down boom microphone on Yapster makes it easy to use and position when communicating with others or quickly swung up
- 3.5mm connector
- 2.2m cord length
Don’t be Cry Babies and Don’t Spend Big Bucks for Awesome Headphones! Now you don’t need to spend a fortune for a high quality, multiple-use stereo headsets. If quality sound reproduction, super comfortable fit and listening/chatting versatility is what you’re looking for without all the HYPE!!! Then these babies are the perfect headset for you. Yapster Universal Headphones were designed for a large audience of users ranging from everyday online computer uses such as PC gaming or internet chat
List Price: $ 19.99
Price: $ 14.96
Logitech Gaming Headset G330 (Black)
- Adjustable, behind-the-head design provides a lightweight, personalized fit – the first of its kind in gaming headsets
- Silicone-lined headband and pivoting ear pads relieve pressure from extended wear.
- Noise-canceling microphone reduces annoying background noise; position the flexible microphone
- Connect digitally to any USB port for enhanced audio or directly to your PC sound card via 3.5 mm jacks.
- In-line audio controls let you adjust the volume or mute the microphone without pausing the action.
With its adjustable, behind-the-head fit, pivoting ear pads, and lightweight headband lined with pressure-relieving silicone, the Logitech Gaming Headset G330 delivers comfort that won’t quit. A flexible, noise-canceling microphone reduces annoying background noise and rotates out of the way when not in use. Connect via USB or 3.5 mm jacks.
List Price: $ 49.99
Price: $ 25.00
phillipwinfrey on October 18, 2011
Perfect!!!! Why pay for expensive headsets?,
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This video shows off the mic quality and the headset’s features.
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|Elizacraft on October 18, 2011
So far so good,
This does not come with a USB hook up. I’m personally happy about that. It frees up my other two USB ports. It comes with a two pronged hook-up, for the microphone port and the headphone port. You can plug in just one or both, depending on your needs.
Just make sure you have a mic and headphones port on your computer, the small round ones. (I don’t know the technical term.)
If I just want to listen to music, I can use the headset alone. If I just need the mic, I can unplug the headphone jack from the port and have my computer’s sound come through the speakers. The mic still functions.
It’s very comfortable, unlike some headphones. I can wear it for hours and forget I have it on. The sound is great, and the microphone seems to work well for my gaming needs.
One tiny negative would be that it encloses your ears completely. So hearing the sounds around you can be somewhat difficult. That can be a positive as well, though, since it blocks out other noises.
Over all, this is a great uncomplicated device. I plugged it in, and it worked!
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|Serg "Serg" on October 18, 2011
This is exactly what I wanted,
Yapster TM-YW100A – nice sound quality, sensitive mic. I checked mic in Corel Video Studio Pro X2. Recording quality: loud, clear, no white noise. I liked it. Sound is great also! Good enough bass and high frequencies.
Fit exactly for my ears. Feels a little tight, but if you want to unbend it be aware that it is plastic under soft leather so be careful.
Headphones have volume control, mute button. Both work so far flawlessly.
Very nice design. Mid size. Cord 168 cm though not 2.2m as in description, but it’s still long enough to not pluck off if you will stand up suddenly. The mic handle is very pliable and long enough for anybody’s head. It’s about 7.5” or 19 cm from plastic part of center of connection with headphone to the end of plastic part of microphone. You can bend it on anyway you want. Very handy!Other characteristics:
3.5 mini-jack;
Microphone:
Noise reduction design (however I’d recommend adjust it lower otherwise your breath from nose will be heard);
Omni-directional;
Frequency response: 30 – 16Khz
Sensitivity: -59 db
Headphones:
Frequency response: 20 – 20KHz
Sensitivity: 100db
Max power input 50mW
Right price, right size, right headphones with microphone – right on, right on!
Update: 6 months later I bought some unbranded VOIP/SKYPE Headset w/Microphone which was cheaper and I regretted it. As old says don’t buy to cheap – you’ll pay twice. It was a step down after Yapster. So, on the second day I ordered from Yapster and received (in couple days) my well known TM-YW100A. It’s my second headset (first one was taken from me by my kid) and I still happy with it. Microphone quality is outstanding and so sound quality.
The only thing I’d highly recommend to Yapster Company is to include the Microphone Cover which is noticeably reduce a breath noise.
The rest is awesome!
Long life to Yapster!
I still recommend it very much.
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|Eric S. Olstad on October 18, 2011
A little pricey, but definitely a high quality headset by Logitech,
With the G330, Logitech delivers a comfortable headset with surprisingly high sound quality. I would definitely recommend this product provided you’re willing the spend the cash, which is considerably high for a wired headset.
I suppose I’ll discuss the comfort first since that seems to be the major marketing point for this product. This is the first set of behind-the-head headphones I have ever seen that are adjustable. It seems like an obvious addition, but a welcome one. Now even people with bigger heads (like me) can look at “one-size-fits-all” and actually believe it. For me, the major issues effecting these behind-the-ear type headsets is the tightness and sharpness where they hang on your ears. Logitech seems to have nailed down both of those flaws. The tightness is adjustable and the hook around your ear is not even noticeable. All I feel while wearing these is the foam on my ears, which is soft. In addition, the ear pieces pivot slightly to take into account different types of ears. So, without a doubt this is the most comfortable headset (or behind-the-ear headphones) I have ever worn.
Now onto usage. The cord from the headset has a control box to allow for volume control and muting. On the control box is a belt-clip for attaching to clothing. It’s light enough that if it’s dangling, you probably won’t notice it. Down from there on the cord, you’ll find a velcro strap for neatly storing the wires — a nice touch. And finally, the output plugs. These are 2 stereo jacks with embedded, color-coated labels for each to let you know that one is for the headphones and one is for the microphone. With these jacks, you can plug them into your sound card. But, like me, you’ll probably want to use the provided USB adapter. The jacks plug into the adapter and then you plug that into a USB port. Windows (I’m using Windows 7 RTM) will immediately recognize this as a sound device, so there must be some kind of sound card type logic within the USB adapter (which is why I suspect the price is so high by the way). By default Windows will make this your default sound device so you will hear all your game audio through the headphones and all the voices through your PC speakers, which is the exact opposite of what I wanted. But with some simple changes to the sound devices in windows, you can swap that around so the game audio goes through your speakers and the voices go through your headset. You will likely also need to configure whatever game software you’re using to work that way as well. Both Steam and Games for Windows Live allow you to do this. Just go into settings and select the G330 sound device for voice input and output, then select your audio card for game audio (music and SFX) output.
Now, had the audio configuration never defaulted to the G330 being my default audio device, I might not have had a chance to experience the sound quality that comes out of these bad boys. I have a 5.1 surround sound system, but if I didn’t, I would be glad to use these for my main gaming audio device. They really sound tremendous. I was very surprised to hear that kind of quality audio coming from these little headphones. It’s a very full sound, and loud without distortion. The microphone is also top quality. I recorded my voice and played it back to hear how it sounded. It was clear and defined — definitely better than what I’m used to with Xbox Live headsets.
About Xbox Live… my only bad point about these. There is no adapter to turn them into a mono headset for use with Xbox Live. I tried buying a cheap splitter to turn the 2 3.5mm stereo jacks into 1 2.5mm stereo jack, but the adapter was a splitter and ended up combining the signals into a choppy output. So, you definitely need some kind of special adapter. I don’t know if Logitech sells it or not.
So, other than that, these are top notch. I definitely recommend. Another fine product by Logitech.
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|Computerdude1032 on October 18, 2011
One of the most well built and economical headsets I’ve used,
I’m a big gamer, and enjoy voice chatting while playing my games, and sadly, up until this point I’ve just been using an Xbox 360 headset for everything. Other headsets were either too expensive for what they offered, or were cheap and of terrible quality. This logitech headset is priced reasonably (only ten dollars more than the Xbox 360 headset, by comparison), but offers the a level of quality that I’ve only seen in headsets offered at triple the price. The microphone quality is amazing (people have actually commented that they can hear me more clearly now), the sound quality is amazing, and the level of comfort is amazing. Sure, it’s not the best looking headset ever, but as a gamer it exceeds my expectations in every other category (which are the ones that count).
If you’re like me and have been settling with junky headsets for years, do yourself a favor and buy this logitech unit. You won’t regret it!
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|Sheryl Katz on October 18, 2011
Some very good points, some just OK,
This headset comes with its very own USB digital to audio converter, giving you the option to use them either with the sound card in your PC or plugged directly into USB. I appreciate this “feature” because not every PC has a sound card, or a sound card that is tolerable. Unfortunately, the processor in the converter seems to be of the cheapest and lowest quality. The sound coming from it is adequate but the run of the mill realtek audio card on my laptop sounds a lot better. Still, it’s nice to get a converter.
Logitech advertises these headphones as comfortable. Comfort is a very personal matter. Generally I am most comfortable with standard headphones. But sometimes they hurt the top of my head and sometimes they hug my head too tight. Unfortunately I didn’t find these to be that comfortable either because the part of the mechanism that wraps around the ear pushed my glasses into my head. I could see though where these could be very comfortable for someone else.
I don’t use the microphone for gaming but I do use it for Skype. These make a decent Skype headphone and are comfortable enough with my glasses off.
These headphones don’t come with any special software. The sound stage is just standard cheap headphone soundstage. There is no spatial processing – which I don’t care for – which can be useful for gaming. This is called a gaming headset but, other than having a microphone, I don’t find anything about them – like clarity of location of sounds – that would make them good for gaming.
My reference headphones for cheap headphones (anything less than $99) is the Koss Porta Pro. The Porta Pro can be bought on sale for $20 fairly often, and one pair I got was Radio Shack rebranded with the same driver and I got them for $10. The bass, soundstage, clarity and treble on the Porta Pros are better than many far more expensive headphones. I compared the G330 sound to the Porta Pro and the Porta Pro had much better treble and bass. The G330 had a decent midrange and adequate bass. The sound clarity of the G330 is pretty good.
Because this headphone comes with a USB adapter, even a cheap one, a microphone, will be acceptably comfortable to most people, and the sound is decent, I think they are worth the price of roughly $40. You can do a lot worse for the price and probably not a lot better in an integrated headset. (Koss porta pro plus a cheap mic would be more value for your money but sometimes, particularly for gaming, an integrated microphone is better).
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