Plantronics Gamecom 777 Headset Brings Dolby Surround Noise

Surround sound headsets for gaming seem like a hot topic these days: after Razer's announcement yesterday about the upcoming Megalodon, we now came across this Plantronic's new surround in a pair of cans, the Gamecom 777. Much like the ASUS Xonar U1 USB sound pod that we reviewed here a few months ago (and unlike the competing solutions from Creative, including the HS-1200 X-Fi headset), the Gamecom 777 uses a combination of Dolby's Pro Logic II surround decoding and Dolby Headphone technologies to deliver 5.1 surround to a pair of headphones.

What we find interesting about the Gamecom 777 is that it looks like they're trying to offer a more general-use pair of headphones by making the Dolby processing engine a separate (USB-powered) component that detaches from the rest of the unit. Pull out the plugs and you have a set of stereo headphones that – oddly enough – has two headphone jacks that we guess you'd use for other music sources. We're just not sure when you'd have a system that accepted two headphone jacks, or whether the Plantronics' headphones sound good enough to make them a good choice for music lovers. We guess we'll see in September, when the Gamecom 777 hits the streets for $99.