i have no idea if they're better... but i do know they're insanely crazy and loud with music... my friend was playing cs in his room, and i was in the living room (which is pretty far, they got a big house), and all i heard from there was HEAD SHOT!!!, FIRST BLOOD! DOMINATING! and a bunch of gun shots, and everytime a grenade was thrown the floor vibrated. It was crazy! and the volume was only about 3/5 up..... and that remote is so easy to work with. And when i walked in his room while i was playing... it was like i was actually in that game
and with the money you saved buying it, like i said.. you could get the platinum x-fi and things would so incredibly good and real.. he only had the lowest of x-fi... i can't imagine the clarity on the platinum