I have a sony headset and this headset is great, however if you are a serious gamer and want to be able to hear absolutely everything and have enough money I highly advise you to save $100 or $150 more for Astro A40s, $250 sounds like a lot of money but you won't regret, the sony headsets are good for the price but there are other headsets out there that provide better sound quality (true 7.1 surround sound) and are also better for everything, if you don't like wired headsets then go for the Astro A50s. You will find Sony headset extremely useful when you first get them but after awhile you'll see yourself saving up for better headset like me, and if you wanna know if sony headsets allow you to sound whore yes it does, way better than the PX21, only downside is that when there's a lot of noise going on you might find it hard to hear footsteps, also if you play cod the distance you hear people planting or defusing bombs is very poor regardless of how much noise is going on, but everything else like reloads etc sound fine from a short distance. Also stay away from turtle beaches, specially the PX21, everyone I've known of has broken it even if they take care of it including me.