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Review unit on loan from Roccat. Audio is something long looked over by all except the die-hards, but now we’re finally starting to see some appreciation for sound with digital streaming companies slowly but surely abandoning the horribly low quality 256kbps compression methods, while the introduction of Blu-ray and now 4k Blu-ray discs has resulted in a marked improvement for films and games. The reason I mention this is that the Roccat Khan claims to be the world’s first “Hi-Res Audio” headset, something usually defined as being 16 bit / 44.1KHz. It’s a meaningless statement for most consumers while audiophiles are all too used to dealing with how to get the best audio possible. As such the Japanese Audio Society (JAS) and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) have created a certification for what they deem to be Hi-Res Audio, and the Roccat Khan meets the criteria. That’s all very well, but how does it sound? Well, for testing I hooked it up to my SoundBlasterZ internal sound...

  Oh little black box of witchcraft, how do you work? Despite how much I appreciate amazing audio the mechanics behind it all are akin to black magic in my eyes. All I know is that sound is something that often gets overlooked from a gaming and filmgoing perspective, and spending the money to get something deliver that sound can change that perspective. It’s not until you splurge on a good set of headphones or a speaker system that you can appreciate how much you weren’t hearing. These days motherboards, even the cheap ones, provide surprisingly good audio to the point where the average person doesn’t need to worry about it. You can plug in any decent set of headphones or speakers and get pleasing results. But there are folk like me who just want better because we’re greedy like that.  With that said while I love getting the best quality I can I’m not an audiophile by most definitions, so this isn’t going to be a review filled with complex terms. No, this is a review from an average...