Peripherals Headset without headphones?

Hey, looking for a Microphone headset to play over live / on pc with my mate but I don't want a crazy expensive pair of headphones when I have sweet ass surround sound!

Both my TV and my PC have expensive surround sound system so I don't really want headphone cans or to have to pay through the nose for them.

I like the idea of the bluetooth headset e.g.


although even wired would be ok as long as its easy enough to get the chat audio into the ear piece.

However I assume its not very good as its M$ and I was hoping someone had andy suggestions

 

Your friends will really suffer if you use a headset and your surround sound setup, they will hear the game through their speakers and then on voice chat through yours.

 

^ This.

Your mates won't be your mates much longer if you go down that road. You'll be perma-muted. Even if you set up a PTT (push-to-talk) button, you'd be drowned out with gunfire etc and they'd be deaf for that 5 second transmission.

 

If that is the case what were they designed for? Surely they must serve some purpose? Am I to believe that I have to wear headphones to play online?

 

Headphones or no chat.

 

I have speakers for game sounds and a headset with push to talk enabled for voip and been doing it this way for 5 years and never had a single complaint!!

I don't have the game sounds absolutely blasting but I certainly don't have it quiet.

 

Which headset?

 

It's an older headset that's not sold anymore, Plantronics 367. My daughter borrowed them and semi snapped the headband and it's been held together with duct tape for the last year or so.

I tried using the headset for both voip and game sounds but I found I couldn't hear people talking very well so went back to using my speakers which works well for me.

 

PTT or very low sensitivity should be more than fine.

If you are worried then make sure the mic is uni-directional/directional and not omni-directional.
Otherwise if you're almost paranoid a throat mic.

 

For me open back headphones and a good (NOT a crappy maplin one etc, mine is a plantronics) desktop mic work really well. Open back headphones don't make your ears sweat and in terms of the acoustics are similar to speakers.

 

i've used a mono-aural Logitech USB jobby for my comms in the past.

In teamspeak/mumble i've set this up to be the communications device, so I have full 5.1 surround, but localised voice in my right ear.

Very few complaints about sound leakage: Logitech BH410