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Abarb, as you may have read elsewhere I recently purchased a pair of Sennheisser HDR160 wireless 'phones and they're a piece of cake to set up. Never mind all that confusing claptrap you've quoted above, all you need to know is 'They work and they sound good'. Nuff said 
Mine sound great with games, as I've commented elsewhere and, I believe, in this thread.
I have the 3.5mm stereo audio socket at the front of my case connected to my Auzentech Prelude soundcard and when I plug the headphone receiver into the socket it mutes the rear onboard soundcard sockets. Which means if I wanted to leave a set of 2.1, 5.1 or 7.1 loudspeakers connected for 'normal' use, I could.
One word of advice though, use rechargeable batteries and the Sennheisser's mains adaptor charging lead to keep them charged as normal cells - even the most powerful Duracell batteries - don't last very long at all, they lasted about a day and a half for me, that's one AAA cell in each earphone.
Footnote: Mine don't have that automatic volume thingie, I have volume controls on the receiver, headset itself and the soundcard's software. Since I've been using the headphones though I haven't had to adjust the volume once and as well as a variety of games I've also watched a couple of films using them.
I note the RS180's cost £170.00, my humble HDR180's cost a mere hundred smackers. Both prices taken from Richer Sounds.
Mine sound great with games, as I've commented elsewhere and, I believe, in this thread.
I have the 3.5mm stereo audio socket at the front of my case connected to my Auzentech Prelude soundcard and when I plug the headphone receiver into the socket it mutes the rear onboard soundcard sockets. Which means if I wanted to leave a set of 2.1, 5.1 or 7.1 loudspeakers connected for 'normal' use, I could.
One word of advice though, use rechargeable batteries and the Sennheisser's mains adaptor charging lead to keep them charged as normal cells - even the most powerful Duracell batteries - don't last very long at all, they lasted about a day and a half for me, that's one AAA cell in each earphone.
Footnote: Mine don't have that automatic volume thingie, I have volume controls on the receiver, headset itself and the soundcard's software. Since I've been using the headphones though I haven't had to adjust the volume once and as well as a variety of games I've also watched a couple of films using them.
I note the RS180's cost £170.00, my humble HDR180's cost a mere hundred smackers. Both prices taken from Richer Sounds.
