I strongly advise you to buy a discrete sound card for them, then the sound will be as it was intended. For example creative ae-5) Has some pros: Excellent quality of the headset itself, good sound, good positioning in games, great for listening to music (if you are not an audiophile). Has cons: The volume wheel on the left cup is not convenient for me personally, I constantly touch it when I take off the headphones, it also strangely turns down the volume, muffles the left cup stronger than the right one, in short somehow not evenly.