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!!
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.
Sennheiser Momentum 3 bluetooth headphones. They work amazingly well.
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.
I plug my Behringer UMC404HD into the Deck using a hub adapter. Then I have my Sennheiser HD599 for audio and Shure SM57 for microphone. :-)
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.
I have a pair of Sony EXB50’s or something along those lines, wired earbuds. Works great, though some games suffer from audio crackling (possible side effect of resume from sleep). Sound quality is good though regardless, and that’s game dependent in my experience.
Bluetooth earbuds work well too, you can pair your phone to the Steam Deck and pair the earbuds to the Steam Deck and stream music from your phone and play your game. Also haven’t noticed any latency which is pretty amazing, but even if there was a rhythm game worth its salt has a setting to correct that
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.
I got a cheap pair of bone conduction, open ear headphones. Sound quality isn’t fantastic, but I keep my ears open for my family while also sparing them my game noise.
I do this too. I bought them for work but I use them with steam os (Bazzite) too.
sorry I just paly with the sound on and don’t use a mic. all single play.
I use Sony wh1000-xm5 noise canceling, they are amazing for immersion. Using the built in mic for steam audio and it works well
First time to hear something positive about them. Only heard that they are a step down from xm3 and 4.
At least they fixed the breaking hinges. On my XM3 both are held on by super glue. Apart from that, they’re great, over 5 years old and the battery still lasts 3 days of more than 10 hours a day usage
I moved from xm3 to xm5, the 5s are better. Also, handling multiple Bluetooth devices is a huge QoL improvement.
I had the xm4, the 5 is better. It wasn’t a revolutionary change, but it was definitely an improvement, not worse
Thanks for your comment! I was thinking the XM4 for myself vs. The Bose Quietcomforts with like a V Moda Boom mic but was nervous about the latency and whether there were better set ups to be considered.
I just use the Playstation headphones, seem to work well.
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
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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.
On a plane I’ll use my Airpods Pro 2. They have worked shockingly well for the Deck being a non-Apple product.
I will say though for seemingly no reason they don’t work with God of War Ragnarok. They work fine at first but after roughly a minute, everytime I launch the game, the audio starts to get glitchy and eventually just disappears entirely until I disconnect and reconnect, when it starts that cycle over. I can’t tell in any way why it happens but it happens everytime.
