So my ayylienware headset isn't very old at all (only a couple months) but it's already broken (and has been for quite awhile now) I just realized today (took me a long time to realize). It's only playing audio through the left headphone.
I only started noticing that it's playing only through the left headphone a couple days ago, and forgot to note the problem, so forgot about it because I keep eating too much cinnamon lately and overdosing as part of an occult ritual to empower Linux Mint OS & the Cinnamon DE development teams.
I have been wasting lots of time in Pulse and Alsa thinking it was a problem with Linux when today about 30 minutes ago I had the genius idea to unplug my ayylienware headset and try it in my Samsung Galaxy Tab S with Android. (I have lots of other computers as well with different OS to try it with too btw.)
This confirmed for me that there is in fact a problem with the headset. So I took my backup headset which I only ever used with my tablet and plugged it into my laptop. The sound quality is infinitely better and also louder, I am at 37% volume and everything is LOUD AND CLEAR, and I can adjust it very well to other volumes (you ever had that problem where you adjust the slider and it seems to not make much difference, it's just ON or OFF basically, instead of smooth adjustment in sound level? No problem here.). On the old ayylienware headset at top volume it wasn't very loud, a bit on the quiet side when maxed out.
This is REALLY SPOOKY btw but for whatever unknown reason with my ayylienware headset, any offline video or music player such as VLC, MPlayer, and Linux Mint's default movie player you can't hear shit. Only running a game like Minecraft or playing youtube videos through Firefox would produce any audio that could be heard at all. I don't understand why that is but reckon I should be concerned if maybe it's doing something potentially damaging to sound equipment>
**(Just an irrelevant aside but an Arabic sorcerer from UAE obsessed with me called up Goetic demons just like two weeks ago to make my ayylienware stuff fail, dat coincidence).
So anyways this old backup headset of mine is a Panasonic RP-DJS400 that I got for free and have only been using with my tablet. It has no volume control on the headset itself but that is OK because I can change volume using the GUI sound control on Linux Mint. Now let me explain how infinitely superior this beast is to the ayylienware headset:
Positives
>it's older, yet it looks cleaner (even though I've used it more and traveled with it more), it has leather muff things that go around the ears that don't trap dirt and if they ever did get dirty would be easy to clean
>I have skin problems, my ayylienware headset is absolutely covered in skin flakes and hair and stuff, the Panasonic headset looks new still
>the Panasonic headset has better audio quality than my ayylienware headset ever did, even when it was brand new
>It is a more robust and simple design, unlike the ayylienware headset which is more flimsy and has parts that you know will be vulnerable to breaking easier
>wearing the ayylienware headset is like putting on winter ear-muffs, the panasonic traps less body heat and so is cooler and more comfortable for prolonged wearing
Negatives
>no mic to record voice
>no volume control, you have to adjust volume through GUI of device you're plugged into instead
>much shorter wire than with the ayylienware headset, might want to consider a wireless headset or find out if there's extension cables you can buy for headsets (do they exist?)
So I'm going to have to buy a separate mic. I want to hear /tech/'s recommendations on this matter as to a good quality mic I can get, preferably from people with lots of experience and wisdom to bestow on me... I won't ignore you this time to buy a meme headset (even if said meme headset was on a major discount).
Damn this is amazing how much better this audio is, I am euphoric as fug right now wearing the Panasonic RP-DJS400, after so much time spent this month listening with my shitty half-dead ayylienware headset. I'll probably use the loosh I'm getting from this to evoke sylphs (air elementals) and have them confer upon me their knowledge to become an audio wizard. I haven't appreciated my sense of hearing this much in a long time and previously wouldn't have given a fuck if I were to become deaf.
Not sure what I'm going to do with the ayylienware headset now. I might sacrifice in an occult ritual to contact the ayy lmaos (grey aliens), might just like fuck it to that since greys are real big cunts anyways and give it away as spare parts and perhaps get some stuff in trade (maybe a clip-on mic?), or see if I can return it to Dell. We'll see.
EDIT NEVERMIND MOST OF THE ABOVE IT WAS JUST THE AYYLIENWARE'S EXTENSIONWIRE THAT WAS DAMAGED, I UNPLUGGED THAT AND PLUGGED THE HEADSET IN DIRECTLY AND THE PROBLEM IS GONE...