The Psyko 5.1 PC Gaming Headset effectively address the limitation of both room systems and traditional headphones, by designing a perfect sound room and then shrinking it down and presenting it in an acoustic headphone form.

5.1 Room Systems

The main challenge in setting up a 5.1 surround sound system is the accurate placement of speakers and the physical dimensions and surfaces of the room itself. Even then, the resulting sweet spot is small and may not be where you are.

It is difficult to physically place speakers correctly and it is equally if not more difficult to control the inevitable bouncing of sound wave into walls, objects and each other, with the resulting echoes, dead zones and cancelation of sounds that reduce the quality of the sound. The effort involved in setting up a room correctly is far beyond what most people are willing to do. They will just live with diminished sound and be happy that it sounds better than the stereo they are used to.

The other obvious limitation is noise control. Our games are noise to anyone else not playing. A typical room system needs to be pretty loud to generate the feeling of total immersion in a game. If you live in an apartment / condo or want to play at night and still respect the people you live with, you’ll either need to turn it down or switch to headphones and either way you diminish the experience.

Traditional Headphone Technology

Headphones are just not designed for surround sound. They are not even designed to accurately handle stereo since left sounds are only played in the left ear, and right sounds are only played in the right ear. In normal room stereo, both ears can hear every sound with a timing and volume difference between each ear.

DSP or digital signal processing technologies attempt to compensate for the inherent limitations of headphones. Their challenge is that everyone’s ears are as unique as fingerprints and so are the sound signals each person uses to detect the direction of a sound. However, DSP solutions deliver the same signal to everyone. It is like selling the same prescription of glasses to everyone in the world even though we all need our own prescription. DSP methods also need processing time so they delay the sound to the headphones and that reduces your reaction time and game performance.

Psyko headphones reflect the sounds off each ear at the correct locations so they just sound natural to everyone, with no latency.

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