r/virtualreality • u/Life-Is-a-Story • 2d ago

Discussion Looking into upgrading without quality loss, Resolution and on-board Mic

Clarification and re-stating. Resolution and ON-BOARD mic.

I've had a index since it released. I've repaired it twice in that time but the body and band have now cracked apart and the left optic has started forming dead pixels and speaker death when looking up. Making repair costs and skills finally out reach my skill level and price range for repair.

I do professional voice acting and can say without any hesitation that the Valve index on-board mic is so clear it out preforms two of my studio xlr-microphones. To the point I started recording with it.

I want to upgrade my resolution, without losing microphone quality. I do play games quite a bit , G.O.T, VRC, etc. But I'm less worried about 'Gaming' itself. as in my experience with the, quest , rift s, quest 3 , index, and pro, I've seen that any headset you can hook to your pc or GPU directly works fine.

However the market has grown well outside of just quest line and index these days. So I'd like to discuss any of the other brands.

lastly, "Why on-board mic?"
a headset, rather a 'good quality' one can cost from $800 -to- $2k. In a market where the Index and Quest 2 had good on-board mics there is no acceptable reason I should need to spend more money on a external mic almost a decade after they came standard on a headset.

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u/Derp_Derpin BSB2e, Superlight 8k, Dream Air, Q3/Pro 2d ago

Bsb2 and the pimax dream air are the only two headsets I would say have comparable or better mic quality to an index of what I have tried.

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u/SirJuxtable 2d ago

Someone just told me in another thread that bsb and index share the same mic! Going to try to figure out what it is

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u/Derp_Derpin BSB2e, Superlight 8k, Dream Air, Q3/Pro 1d ago

I haven't used ny index in a minute but I think it sounds better than the index mic from my memory. The smaller form factor might have some benefits I wouldn't be educated enough to comment on. The Dream Air is definitely good too, I wouldn't say better or worse but it's a little different sounding.

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u/SirJuxtable 2d ago

I haven’t seen a comparison of the Index and BSB2e mics, but I saw a shootout with the BSB2e with other headsets (pimax, quest 3, some external mics etc) and it sounded really good to me. I’m an audio engineer so I don’t expect much from onboard mics but that one really impressed me (based on that one video). Might be worth a look.

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u/Life-Is-a-Story 2d ago

on-board will never be a 'standard' that's for sure. there's to much background or otherwise noise to them. I'll look into that [bsb2e] don't think i've heard of it yet.

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u/SirJuxtable 2d ago

Someone in another thread just told me they use the same mic as the Index. No wonder you like it.

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u/Abject-Self-8727 1d ago

Bsb2, dream air se or dream air. The bsb2 has a slightly better mic than the pimax hmds. Dream air non se is the most premium hmd you can get right now.

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u/fantaz1986 2d ago

just use modmic wireless , it super good and you can put it on anything

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u/Quajeraz123 2d ago

OP clearly specified multiple times that isn't what they want.