Digital Trends

Ezonics ESound 5.1 February 25th, 2004 | by Jeff Fila

Introduction

Computer audio and video is constantly evolving and we're currently on the cusp of another evolution. With games becoming more and more immersive on the graphics side, the next logical step is digital surround sound.

While movies have been doing it for years, video games are just starting to support 3D positional audio. There are many 5.1, 6.1 and even 7.1 channel sound cards and speaker sets on the market today, and now we are starting to see surround sound headphones.

The idea of 5.1 channel headphones is a fairly new concept that is getting a lot of exposure lately. Several companies have come out with 5.1 channel headphones, with most of them being an analog solution requiring three separate plugs to carry the signal.

Ezonics is a company that hopes to tap into this new computer audio market with their ESound 5.1 surround sound headphones. The ESound headphones have an MSRP of $149 dollars but we've seen them on the Web for as little as $99.

The ESound 5.1 channel headphones from Ezonics.