tested the avenger, battleship & a couple more movies in 7.1 with tiamat then i change back to my old turtle beach x41, even ask my wife listen to the difference..... Hate to say this, the headset that i been waitin for 8+ months sucks. Too much echo, when the actors talk they sounds abit robotics, action scene nice explosion bass but everything sounds so echoish compare to X41 crisp & clear sounds. The soundcard im using is the latest Asus Xonar Phoebus so i dont think thats the issue.

Games like diablo 3, guildwar 2 does support 7.1 and they sounds fantastic still with X41 compare to the echoish sound from tiamat. I tried tinkering with every possible settings with the soundcard n headset but still cant find where to make it sound good. Hope someone in the forum can help me out ? Anyone else has tiamat 7.1?

echoish like karaoke lol..... even those mtv from youtube sounds so bad with tiamat or the movie/music blurays i d/l. The sound/voice is just not clear. Play games like battlefield 3 is ok with accurate surround but honestly i still prefer x41 clear & crisp & accurate surround too.

for the x41, what sound card r u using? last time i use the old xfi and it sounds weak, then i change using Rampage 2 extreme Xfi soundcard it was good but now using the Xonar Phoebus it just blow my mind out( im only using 30% of the volumn on the headset now, the explosion is good, bullet sounds clear as hell).... Does your X41 auto-off all the time also?

SSJBen : yes i tried disable the enviroment effects, the Dolby home theater and only set 7.1 in the speaker sections. When without the Dolby home theater, the headsets sound even worst like a 'spoiled speaker'.....

I attached 2 pics, my headset is currently plug to the mic in, front, ctr/sbw, rear and Side/SPDIF out of the soundcard. So i dont think there is any problem with the connection is there?

Got my blackwidow ultimate today.    I fell in love with the blue LEDs, not the new green ones. They didn't have the windows key layout in stock for the original BW ultimate so I went with the mac version. Works well on windows 7 professional, although it's not stated on the box. At times like this I appreciate having a smartphone with 3G connection for fast lookups.



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should i get razer electra or wait till razer kraken is available in malaysia ?

Just got my Razer Tiamat 7.1 yesterday,

at first, I plugged it into my pc dedicated sound card Creative X-fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro, the first thing I test is music playback (with soundcard upmix stereo audio to surround), sounds......funny, then I go my sound card control panel, tweak it properly, tune the sound setting correctly for the headphone (every headphone, earphone , speaker are built differently anyway, needs different setting to match),

right now the sound, compare to my previous used headphones, is like sky and ground, couldn't compare at all

the bass shakes my head (not even 50%) can still go stronger without cracking sound, I'm very impressed with the sound quality, and really do not understand why there are some ppl used it and said it was crap

next, get to game, first I test bad company 2, which has multi channel audio,holy crap, gun fire sounds. environment sounds blow me away and explosion kills me, this is completely different than music playback the "upmixed by soundcard" from stereo to surround, you can clearly hear where the sounds are coming from, aloooooooot better than the "Virtual Surround" headphones on the market.

Will do more test later on other multichannel audio supported games, such as source games and battlefield 3.

Next, bluray movie, I pick up my Fast Five blu ray movie, it actually has only 5.1 surround, but well still sounds really great on 7.1, how to explain, it's like watching movie in cinema, the realistic surround sound that you can hear with home threater setup, or 5.1/7.1 Speaker set.

There are many Razer Tiamat 7.1 review articles over the internet, actually just like what they'd reviewed, this tiamat sounds GREAT on Gaming, sounds really good on movies and music, the only let down is the microphone, it may sound like you are speaking inside a box or small room, but if you have a good onboard sound or dedicated sound card, you can still tune the mic sounds good enough, I'll still recommend to use separate mic if you really want a good mic quality.

If you have one this headphone and you get terrible sound, do not conclude so fast, that's not the headphone problem, but ur sound card with incorrect,unmatch settings.

You really need to know how to tune your sound on your sound card to use this awesome headphone, if you don't know how to tune you may end up terrible sound quality or cracking sound.
If you are an audiophile, Razer Tiamat 7.1 maybe not good enough for you, but perfect for gamers, some movie and music also good too.

Pros: hmm, many
Cons:
- Mic not good enough,compare to most mics on the market, but acceptable for me.
- Magnetic side covers may fall off sometime if you touch them when putting on/taking off the headphone.

Anyone Razer collectors interested in my 1 week+ tiamat 7.1 ? selling it at rm600... think i still prefer to use my old x41 as i dont need to configure much .

really thank for ur advice u had enlighten me i think i know which mouse i should choose  already .. thanks  again !!