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My Setup, April 2024

30 points by ingve 3y ago

nightowl_games 3y ago
Good setup. I have a SteelSeries wireless headset. I can walk around my house during meetings. It has a great mute button. The mic, mic arm and audio interface seem a bit pointless and cumbersome to me. Good if your recording YouTube videos for audio quality, but not worth it for meetings. Especially if your using that Logitech webcam. I wonder how much that mic picks up keyboard and mouse sounds.
linhns 3y ago
I have a setup pretty similar to this. I’d suggest a Q3 max with the Banana switch though, it just works.
quectophoton 3y ago
> Razer DeathAdder V2 Story time. Around 2-3 years ago I was gifted Razer headphones. They were amazing, so I started reading about Razer. I found comments about people buying Razer products and those products breaking after 6-12 months. Didn't pay that much attention to them. After like half a year later, they broke. The... uh... [quickly searches how headphone parts are called] the part where the headband joins with the ear cup, it snapped. Maybe I was just unlucky. But since then I've avoided anything from Razer just in case.
- doublerabbit 3y ago
  Same with mine and an reason to why I stopped buying Razer. I then started buying Turtle Beach which then fell apart under six months, then I moved to Roccat. Where I was finally happy for a few years. I even bought the same keyboard twice because I split cider over it once, and then they got bought out by Turtle Beach... Now they don't even sell keyboards nor to the UK.
- senkora 3y ago
  My brand like that is ASUS. A few friends and I bought ASUS laptops for college and all of them broke within a year and a half. Mine suddenly stopped turning on at the same time as I heard a rattling noise inside, so my theory is that something came unglued or unscrewed and bounced around inside. And so now my personal rule is: if it’s ASUS, then it’s trash. They made sure that the technical specs were high but the build quality was lacking.
- itsdrewmiller 3y ago
  I’ve got a bunch of razer stuff across two desktops - 1 set of speakers, one headset, two mousepads, two mice, three keyboards (upgrade, not broken), and 3 mice (the scroll wheel on one ended up sketchy but otherwise it was working). Overall my experience has been positive from a reliability standpoint.
karmakaze 3y ago
I'd just looked at the Dell U2723QE in the past week. It's great pick with the hub and all--but the "IPS Black" aspect isn't quite all that much better than previous IPS UltraSharp. Dell now has IPS Black monitors with 120Hz refresh at lower 2560x1440 resolution. My ideal monitor might be a 32" 1440p (or wide 3840x1600) VA panel (for better blacks/colors) with high/variable refresh rate. It would mainly give up maximum brightness, so for use in a controlled lighting environment. Still looking.

30 points by ingve 3y ago

Good setup. I have a SteelSeries wireless headset. I can walk around my house during meetings. It has a great mute button. The mic, mic arm and audio interface seem a bit pointless and cumbersome to me. Good if your recording YouTube videos for audio quality, but not worth it for meetings. Especially if your using that Logitech webcam. I wonder how much that mic picks up keyboard and mouse sounds.

linhns 3y ago

I have a setup pretty similar to this. I’d suggest a Q3 max with the Banana switch though, it just works.

quectophoton 3y ago

> Razer DeathAdder V2 Story time. Around 2-3 years ago I was gifted Razer headphones. They were amazing, so I started reading about Razer. I found comments about people buying Razer products and those products breaking after 6-12 months. Didn't pay that much attention to them. After like half a year later, they broke. The... uh... [quickly searches how headphone parts are called] the part where the headband joins with the ear cup, it snapped. Maybe I was just unlucky. But since then I've avoided anything from Razer just in case.

doublerabbit 3y ago
Same with mine and an reason to why I stopped buying Razer. I then started buying Turtle Beach which then fell apart under six months, then I moved to Roccat. Where I was finally happy for a few years. I even bought the same keyboard twice because I split cider over it once, and then they got bought out by Turtle Beach... Now they don't even sell keyboards nor to the UK.
senkora 3y ago
My brand like that is ASUS. A few friends and I bought ASUS laptops for college and all of them broke within a year and a half. Mine suddenly stopped turning on at the same time as I heard a rattling noise inside, so my theory is that something came unglued or unscrewed and bounced around inside. And so now my personal rule is: if it’s ASUS, then it’s trash. They made sure that the technical specs were high but the build quality was lacking.
itsdrewmiller 3y ago
I’ve got a bunch of razer stuff across two desktops - 1 set of speakers, one headset, two mousepads, two mice, three keyboards (upgrade, not broken), and 3 mice (the scroll wheel on one ended up sketchy but otherwise it was working). Overall my experience has been positive from a reliability standpoint.

karmakaze 3y ago

I'd just looked at the Dell U2723QE in the past week. It's great pick with the hub and all--but the "IPS Black" aspect isn't quite all that much better than previous IPS UltraSharp. Dell now has IPS Black monitors with 120Hz refresh at lower 2560x1440 resolution. My ideal monitor might be a 32" 1440p (or wide 3840x1600) VA panel (for better blacks/colors) with high/variable refresh rate. It would mainly give up maximum brightness, so for use in a controlled lighting environment. Still looking.