If so, which ones? I am looking to game and talk to friends over discord on my Steam Deck. No FPS, more bullet hells, ARPGs, etc. Thank you!!
I don’t usually play games with friends, so I just use whatever pair I currently have available. Right now it’s just a cheap enough pair of wired over the ear skull candy headphones. Don’t know how good they’d be for things like audio calls that go on for extended periods of time, but they’ve been pretty good to me so far.
Yeah a Phillips headset with removable mic and on/mute toggle on the cord.
Works really well, happy with it but it gets warm in the summer…like I don’t need more hotness in the heat.
I don’t usually use headphones with my deck, but I’ve paired my Pixel A-series buds to it and they work pretty well for discord calls.
sorry I just paly with the sound on and don’t use a mic. all single play.
I don’t have a Steam Deck, but I do have earbuds I use with Linux, which is similar. I have the EarFun buds (3, I think), which allow connection to multiple devices at once, have good compatibility, noise reduction, long battery life, and are relatively reasonably priced, under £60.
I use mine with either my Jabra 75t Bluetooth earbuds, or my big Bose over-ear ones using an aftermarket Bluetooth adapter. Both are great.
I’m a basic bitch and use my Galaxy buds. They work well enough. When docked, I have it connected to my DACAmp and blue snowball for a great audio experience.
I have mine docked under my TV but wow, the DACAmp seems awesome. I had to look that up. More money than I would like to spend but adding it for maybe a future purchase!
They’re really only necessary if your headphones are hard to drive afaik
KSC75 with parts express headband and Yaxi pads. KSC75x has mic, but no clue how the quality of the mic is.
I use exactly this (minus the Yaxi pads), and also a pair of Grado SR80i at home.
The two sound remarkably similar. The KSC75 are just a lot more portable.
I got a pair of Zero:2 budget earphones. Wires are annoying when you’re used to wireless, but this was a good bet. Sure my AirPods block out plane noise better, but the passive noise cancellation is perfectly adequate on these, even on flights.
For mic audio you can’t beat a physical wire.
AirPods Pro & Max. It’s so nice that you can just connect to them with the QAM now. I haven’t used them with Discord on a Steam Deck though
I generally use Bose Bluetooth wireless headphones. I just got a set of Viture glasses so I’ll see how those speakers sound. On occasion I play without headphones, either built in speakers or no sound.
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Grado GW100v2.
I use these wired headphones. They are not noise cancelling, they aren’t even the new in ear style, no. They sit in your ear like old school ear buds, but built using modern technology.
They sound great, the bass is a little lacking but that can’t be helped. The benefit is that I can still hear my family around me, so if someone starts talking to me I don’t accidentally ignore them. They work great!
Yes, because my OLED’s speakers sound terrible. Especially when compared the LED I had previously.
I use a Bose QC45.
See this if your interested in knowing more: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/1329
