Astro Mixamp vs Turtle Beach EarForce DSS

If its for PC then you do not need to astro mixamp. You can use it for PC, but it benefits more for console gamers.

For pc I would buy a good soundcard!

Yea if you only have a PC go with one of those sexy asus cards, they have dolby headphone tech built in and normally have amplfiied headphone outputs better than the astro mixamp.  I find it destroys the X-Fi CMSS by a long shot.

The mixamp is a really really awesome device if you own game consoles, easy to hook up, setup and play.  Besides having a built in mixer for voice/game modulation.

The ear force DSS looks so/so.. has the least amount of information and reviewed quiet poorly.

I own the DSS and I was saying in another thread that despite any reviews, it is a wonderful product. I have checked some of these bad reviews online but it appears that the reviewer typically was testing it incorrectly or not getting digital signals out of their test PCs. I purchased my DSS based on amazon reviews, and my experience like these reviews is totally positive:

http://www.amazon.com/Force-Channel-Dolby-Surround-Processor-Mac/dp/B003O0KICS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288029958&sr=8-1

don't forget that to go with dss you need a sound a sound card to process the audio. that means if you play videogames you need EAX processor on the sound card and the soundcard should send a 5.1 signal via optical to DSS. 

For PC DSS is useless if you have a good sound card...

if you have optical out from your current card, the mixamp at 60 USD from the sales forum would be great with your creative 
 

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Originally Posted by ouldsmobile 

Thanks for the responses everyone. It is for the PC, I should have mentioned that in my first post. Sorry. I don't have the option of adding a soundcard unfortunately, no free PCI slot in my PC, hence why I was looking at these external solutions. I picked up a set of Creative Aurvana's(Rebranded Denon's) from a fellow forum member here so I am awaiting their arrival, hopefully they will come in sometime next week if the post office doesn't botch anything up. 

 

Kevin

Thread necro!

I am looking to get a soundcard/DAC that I can use with my gaming laptop. Internal soundcards like the Asus Xonar stuff are definitely out of the question.  The mixamp doesn't seem like a good buy to me, the DSS I do not yet quite understand, so it is not a DAC? Just an amp with Dolby processing? I need something to give me either Dolby Headphone for my laptop or CMSS Headphone is good too. basically I need my directional sound for FPS on my laptop, I'm very critical about this, just using an AD700 out of the laptop's headphone out doesn't cut it for me because I know how it can sound with proper 3D processing on my desktop. 

Both of them mainly designed for optical-in to be used on console. I think you need something like the soundblaster x-fi hd usb or xonar u1.
 

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Originally Posted by Mochan 

Thread necro!

 

 

I am looking to get a soundcard/DAC that I can use with my gaming laptop. Internal soundcards like the Asus Xonar stuff are definitely out of the question.  The mixamp doesn't seem like a good buy to me, the DSS I do not yet quite understand, so it is not a DAC? Just an amp with Dolby processing? I need something to give me either Dolby Headphone for my laptop or CMSS Headphone is good too. basically I need my directional sound for FPS on my laptop, I'm very critical about this, just using an AD700 out of the laptop's headphone out doesn't cut it for me because I know how it can sound with proper 3D processing on my desktop.