Quick question about a headset

[Kabooki]

I've heard that you can get a better experience by listening to the audio over headphones instead of speakers. How would I go about doing that?

[CowboyGP]

I play on a dinky little TV with tinny speakers and NO bass to speak of.

I went to Best Buy and bought a Turtle Bay "Ear Force X3" headset. It gives you full stereo sound, with bass boost and sound expander (good for environmental sounds in FPS games). It also enables you to hear all the sounds of the game and still chat on XBL.

It's wireless, too. The headset adapter for plugging into the controller is wired, but removable when you only need the headphones. Besides the obvious benefit of having the full sound offered by the game, I've also used them to practice singing. It's like having an "in-ear" vocal monitor so you can actually hear your own voice. Not such a great thing if you're me, but helps to learn control.

It comes with a transmitter/receiver that you can stick to your TV. This has wires. One goes to the power source. The other has the same Red, Yellow and White RCA ends as the XBox cable that plugs into your AUX jacks on the TV. The difference is that these RCA connectors have "female" jacks on them. So you just unplug the XBOX cables, plug in the ones for the headset and then plug the XBOX ones into the back of them and you're set.

Since they don't use the headphone jack on the TV, you could be playing with others and they could still hear the game through the regular speakers. Or if you need to be quiet at night (for guitar anyway) you can mute the TV and still hear everything quite loud in the headphones.

Mine was $100 and was with all of 360 accessories at Best Buy. Well worth it in my case.

[Kabooki]

That's exactly what I was looking for. I needed something that I could listen to while I'm drumming and have other bandmates so that they can hear while I'm focusing on the beat. Thanks for the help.