SilentSunshine

Ah, I say complain away, at least we can hear any bad things about the headset before any of us have to buy a new pair

In the 4 years I've been here at TG, I'm currently on my 4th headset. 1st I broke because the cord wrapped around my chair and when I pushed away from the computer, something broke (cheap logitech--great headphones though), 2nd pair my daughter got ahold of and drooled all over the mic and ruined them. 3rd pair, worked pretty well, but I had issues with the mic not being close enough to my mouth...apprently I talk too quietly and with the mic that far no one could hear me. The pair I have now I got for Christmas (2008) After about six months, I had to tape the microphone in place, it kept falling down, then the tape would lose stickiness and I have it tied in the correct place with a piece of yarn...maybe I'll post a pic, it's quite amusing

So best of luck, hopefully the humming issue will sort itself out....my brother and I determined there was a law in our family (maybe you can use it), "Leave it alone long enough and it will fix itself"

On a side note, I'd never heard of Librivox, I'm definitely going to have to check that out and on that note, would you be willing to read and record books for a fee? I love listening to audio books since my drive to work is so long, but I hate having to buy them for $50+ dollars and the library doesn't always have the books I want to listen to. Thought it was worth asking about.

Hehe - I'm sure the yarn would be interesting... for a cat. :P

Yeah, Librivox is awesome. All sorts of cool public domain (mostly OLD) stuff there. Shoot me a PM with the kind of stuff you're interested in.

Eeek, I don't think I can stand having that small of a earcup crushing my big ears for my long gaming/voip sessions. Amazingly, you paid more for your headset, than I paid for my Plantronics GameCom 367 set ($35 + tax vs. $22, no tax, free s/h). At least I get some soft velour-ish padding that almost totally cups around my ears (only the lower part of my earlobe is crimped which doesn't bother me at all.

They ain't cheap but I've had these for 1.5 years now and they are still fantastic

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-043-_-Product

Both of those you guys listed are 3.5mm. Not to say that's bad... but I've heard they often have more hum (grounding/looping problems) than USB. In addition to that - my laptop's audio jacks abut my inclined chill pad, so I can't use both together. :-/

Well any possible humming/buzzing noises are going to be caused by a broken/low quality sound card. USB headsets don't use dedicated hardware to get sound but the 3.5mm headsets must plug into a dedicated device, even if its just a simple as the motherboard's integrated audio chip.