Best computer surround sound headphones?

This isn't actually a simple question of a particular make or style of headphones. The two makes mentioned would be low-class for my style of listening anyway but that isn't the problem....neither is the naming of things as an aid to selling them. Actually Sennheiser make the most popular radio DJ and studio phones in the world....the 200 series in particular, like the 280Pro with rotatable earcups for one-ear listening when required...answering studio phone calls for example, or hearing whispered instructions from technicians and assistants, but AKG and Beyer have a good following too for their top level studio phones which you are unlikely to find in high-street shops. All the BBC national and local area studios have Sennheiser phones. The name isn't the headphone, but some names sell equipment more than others do and some are not particularly honest. What girl would buy a bra labelled 'rib-splitter' even if it was actually the best fitting bra in the world for her, but would buy 'SuperAwesomeBra' or 'FabulousYou' even if it actually was no good for her particular shape? Sound formats and structures vary between games and no single headphone will be best for all of them. Surround sound phones don't necessarily give better spatial positioning than stereo, despite some people's in-built beliefs. It all depends on the particular structure of sound for a particular game and how the sound card and headphones deal with them. For some people that will sound completely wrong and even heretic...like saying that a Shaolin monk can lose a fight, or the world's best-ever burger might not have come from McDonalds. They get their fave names, often for the 'street aura' and won't hear a bad word against them. Phones suffer as badly from that as anything else, but the truth is, phones are not magic pieces of equipment that can change their parameters to suit everything that's played through them. A phone that is ideal for spacial orientation and sound quality for one game may not be so good on another because of the varying standards and formats of sound that are used across the games industry, and a stereo phone can often beat a surround phone on both counts. If sound quality is an important factor, forget most surround-sound phones. They are far outclassed by almost every mid-range stereo phone on the market from a decent maker....see list below for good brands. Expecting a mid-price SuperBrainBusta MegaBlasta BombPhone or similar multi-channel headphone to beat a mid-price stereo headphone from a decent maker is like expecting a jazzy-looking multi-scooter-engined Mini to give better performance than a plain white 1.8 litre Mondeo. And an even glitzier paint job with go-faster tape won't improve it either. Probably pull the crowds though. Even the Sennheisser Orpheus, at £10 000+ are still phones, with the same problems and restrictions that all phones have, regardless of the street-cred or fashion value they may have built up. See the ref to them on here http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090809060959AAVTNYE&r=w There are phones at more affordable prices which are made for audiophile sound quality and not for fashion or street cred which will blow any fashion headphone at less than £100 straight into the dustbin for pure listening pleasure and comfort. Sennheisser again (I've got 4 different upper-range models and 2 mid-range), Beyerdynamic series, AKG, Audio Technica, Grado, the upper-range Technics ( got 2...pretty good) and Panasonic (but not lower or mid range), all have proper hifi performance and are used by serious music listeners with decent hifi (not glossed up high-street stuff....proper audio kit) for rock jazz classical folk, etc as well as for gaming. You'll notice there wasn't a single fashionably-oriented or street-cred-promoting name that is likely to be seen in most computer shops anywhere in that list apart from a couple that have an audio market presence anyway, and had one long before computing became popular. Long answer on the problem of stereo/surround sound, and binaural which is an even more realistic method but unfortunately not applicable to computer games http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AicABI33R62tKsGEKQ8p_XRJBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20090428160537AAF8ZK9 . . .

skull candy are awesome, BEAts by dr.dre are da shitt but they cost alot sony is just a rippoff,, so decide skull candy has these sick bass ones where the whole headphones rumble and massage your ears haha check BESTBUY they got them there

Altec Lansing is really good too. Quality is as good or better than Sony, just not as pricey...stay away from offname brands.

Ive always likes Koss headphones, they are one of the top picks of radio disk jockeys.