In the past I have owned the Razer Barracuda HP-1 head phones and the Razer Barracuda AC-1 sound card. While primarily using them for gaming, I did occasionally use them for movies as well as music. I found that while gaming, sometimes the sounds would seem to be backwards meaning what you should hear in front of you you would sometimes hear behind you. Also, the pesky microphone on the Razer Barracuda HP-1 is horrible. It does a really bad job at picking up your voice (especially in applications such as TeamSpeak and Ventrilo) and it has a tendency to come off every now and then since it is removeable. All in all, I was not very happy with either the headset or the sound card. Since then, I have moved to a Creative X-FI card and bought myself a good pair of Sennheiser HD959 headphones and a desktop microphone. This setup seems to work much better however there is much debate as to whether or not a headset can provide you with the same quality as a really good pair of headphones.