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ANTLION MODMIC 5: THE BEST HEADSET MIC YOU CAN GET, BUT IS IT WORTH IT?

Why buy a headset when you could just buy a great pair of headphones and a good microphone for the same price? So goes the conventional wisdom in comment sections around the world, every time someone dares to suggest that a gaming headset might not be so bad a purchase. But what if the self-professed audiophiles are right? And what if you could get the same form factor as a headset, but with any top-tier pair of headphones? Wouldn’t that be a better deal? We went hands on with the ModMic to find out.

HAND IN HAND

ModMic isn’t new by any means. Since 2011, Antlion Audio has done one thing and done it well: It’s allowed gamers to take their high-end headphones, attach

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