Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HS-1100 Tournament Gaming Headset

If you’re looking for a headset specifically catering for maximum gaming emersion you may be interested in Creative’s up and coming Tournament Gaming Headset which is Creative’s first USB headset to feature their Sound Blaster X-Fi and Silencer technology.

The Creative HS-1100 Tournament Gaming Headset comes with dual integrated microphones that, thanks to employing Creative’s Silencer active noise cancelling technology, promises clear speech transmission freed of ambient noise whilst Sound Blaster X-Fi processing offers 3D positional surround sound allowing you to hone in on your enemies with deathly precision using audio cues (such as their footfalls, etc) where available. An additional feature known as Voice FX is also available which can be used, according to Creative, to ‘personalize your online persona’ by (for example) ‘impersonating a woman or an old man’ – rather tacky, really, but probably good fun for all of two minutes though it does strike us that this could prove handy for dodgy types who have dubious intentions and who are seeking to hide their identities.

Boasting 40mm Neodymium magnet driver unites, the Creative HS-1100 Tournament Gaming Headset offers a frequency response of 20Hz – 20kHz whilst the dual microphones offer 80Hz-16kHz (which used with boom) and in terms of cable length you’re looking at 2.5m.

The Creative HS-1100 Tournament Gaming Headset is set for release in Singapore sometime in April and will retail for the equivalent of a $239 which strikes us as being rather overpriced considering headsets such as Logitech’s G35 come in at just $99. Quite whether the technology on offer is worth the premium is, of course, down to personal taste, however.