Hmm, I can chime in here on a few things but not a definitive answer until my copy of pc38x comes in.
Depends on your sound preference. PC38x appears to be tuned bright while Tygr is tuned to be Warm.
This is correct, however that particular mic after listening to multiple sound qualities and knowing an online friend who owns the headphone, I am going to be completely honest here… the mic sucks. I have heard a few other gaming headsets that offered better clarity then the pc38x microphone. It isn’t that it’s unusable just definitely not something I would consider “great”.
See, the thing is this comment is so horridly subjective due to multiple reasonings. First off they are different signatures. Secondly, there has been multiple remarks that the soundstage on the pc38x is just slightly above average and the imaging is good meanwhile tygr over there has a very large soundstage and laser imaging. I can’t say for certain if pc38x is better or not yet, it could be but the problem lies in that it’s bad for music due to lack of detail, seperation, quality, people made some remarks on the brightness having some grain, it just doesn’t have that musicality like the tygr so the Tygr just generally is a better well rounded headphone in comparison due to being excellent in both music, casual, and competitive.
Hmm, I would say it’s Warm, not V. It does have a very slight peak above neutral but the treble itself dips under neutral and slightly dips in the mids. It has an ever so slight amount of brightness which does show up from time to time in tracks. I would say it’s much more on the warm spectrum than anything after listening to it as one of my go to headphones.
I would say above “decent” grade when it comes to the tygr. It hits above the pricepoint as one of the best in the market for gaming in general on my list. I say this after having tested all the big shot gaming headsets an a very large variety of the headphones deemed great for gamers up to around $600. Of course this is my own opinion. I have competitively gamed with the tygr, used it for music, and played a lot of casual games with it… its quite beautiful to listen to. Granted, if you wanted the proper V signature I would point you towards the DT 990(it is quite sharp though forewarning) as the Tygr is just a redone and modified DT 990 at 32 ohms.
well heres the thing, your paying roughly around $30 more if you go with the Tygr unless it goes on sale again down to $175 like when I first picked mine up. However, the mic on the pc38x is not by any means good. So that extra funds your using towards the microphone are just towards a much better quality mic. Your call on that one really…
It seems to be quite unanimous among a lot of people that the pc38x is just quite bad for musicality. I wouldn’t say the Tygr is better than the other beyers for music but it’s nice when you can’t tolerate the brightness or you don’t have an amp to get a better headphone. I can potentially answer this after I get the pc38x in to see what all the hype is about but it will still just be my own opinion.
The price difference would be like $30 extra for the tygr, plus the microphone you can get like a Blue Yeti for around $50-$60 or if you wanted a Dynamic Microphone the Samson q2u brand new is $60 you can find them cheaper though.
I have to chime in on this and say this is very false. Yes, the tygr is a warm headphone however, it isn’t so bassy that it it’s in the way of sounds. It images and soundstages perfectly in competitive. It gets beaten by the DT 880 of course but that’s due to the added brightness(and straight up neutral bass) much like the DT 990 can beat the tygr in a good scenario, granted 990 is a bassier headphone than the tygr.
I would think it may be safe to assume the $50 shp9500 could best the pc38x honestly… maybe not in imaging but in everything else and musicality yeah. Then again, dunno till I get the headset.
$175-$180 around the same if you buy 3rd party off somebody. The headphone almost never shows up being sold on it’s own and seems as though people keep the headphone in their collection more often than not. Not to mention it always goes out of stock.
Bad selling point, agreed.
There might be, considering the holidays are right around the corner.