5 . 5 x 6 , Id guess <| sep |> Mizzix would probably be bored by all the talking about 20 minutes after arriving and start messing with the microwave just to see what would happen . Zada would probably break at least one serving dish trying to share food with a small army of her friends that show up out of nowhere near the end of dinner . Moral of the Story goblins don ' t make good house guests . <| sep |> And there are even cheaper gaming headsets available on Amazon , as low as $ 15 . They even come with the separate audio and microphone 3 . 5 mm plugs to hook into your sound card . But no , you bought a gaming headset that plugs into a USB port because it ' s so much more convenient . This means you blew $ 40 you apparently can ill afford to waste on a headset where you are stuck with whichever choices were made in the headset ' s DAC by the electronic and software engineers , and it ' s not handling fullduplex signals as cleanly as you had hoped . Fullduplex , by the way , describes signals that go in opposite directions simultaneously . A typical landline telephone is a good example of thisyou can speak into your microphone , and the party at the other end can speak into his microphone , and the signals go to the opposite party at the same time . Even today ' s cellphones , try as they might , are not as ideally as fullduplex as we would like them to bethis is why when both parties speak at once , you may miss part of what the other party said , and vice versa . Moreover , in telephony , it ' s important that you be able to hear your own voice as you speak . This is why , all the way back to the days of wooden phones mounted on walls , telephones have incorporated a device dubbed by Ma Bell as a Network , a small resistor network that mixes part of what your microphone picks up back into the audio you are listening to . The choices made in designing the network in the DAC of your headset are producing an audio problem you cannot readily fix with even more hardware and software . Additional hardware and software that could easily cost you more than purchasing a different headset so you can do your damn job . But no , I must be the idiot , of course .