Psyko Audio Labs introduces its 5.1 PC gaming headphone

If you don’t want to set up a surround sound system in your room then a 5.1 surround sound headphone is the next best thing. You can even bring it into LAN parties so you could really immerse yourself in the game when you hear where all sounds are coming from.

Psyko Audio Labs revealed its 5.1 PC headset at the CES 2009 which I think is a necessary equipment for a hardcore PC gamer. Here’s how it work:

The speakers are placed above your head in the bridge of the headphone.

Psyko places every speaker in a precise location to create the correct timing and volume differences to both ears just like sounds in a room around you, the resulting audio sounds completely natural. The waveguides direct all the front sounds to flow past the front of your ears, and all the rear sounds to flow past the rear of your ears just like how sounds interact with your ears in a room system.

That’s pretty impressive! Now you can listen to 3D surround sound without waking up the whole house. Right now, there’s only a PC headphone but they’re coming up with a version for gaming consoles.

Oh yeah, this piece of equipment will cost you $300 when it ships in Mid-April.