

Both male and female voices sound better when recording through it's mic, and it's also a bit easier to make out what people are saying through the Sennheiser earphones. If you're looking for a step up, I'd go with the Sennheiser PC-36. That's a rarity for headsets, which tend to have awful microphones. You could use this headset to do basic voiceovers for instructional videos, YouTube, podcasts, etc., without being made fun of for audio quality. The LX-3000 sounds more like a mic should. The LX-6000 also has a considerably inferior mic, which is bandwidth limited and makes you sound more like you're talking on a decent quality cell phone. i.e., when you're not speaking, the LX-3000 is less noisy than the LX-6000 overall. However, that comes with a higher amount of self generated noise, what audio engineers would call a high "noise floor", which this doesn't have. Noise reduction wise, though, the LX-6000 has some additional circuitry this doesn't. It also has nice big earpieces, which can be good if you're seeking a bit of isolation from your environment for listening. It's one of the few where the boom goes goes right IN FRONT on your mouth, where it should for the best quality. However, the LX-3000 has the second best mic out of the 5 headsets I tried above, as well as several gaming headsets I've gotten to use over the years (including Turtle Beach and Sony).


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