Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (Updated: 5/23/2013. MrSpeakers Mad Dog v.3.2 Reviewed) - Page 522

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Originally Posted by NamelessPFG 

 

Oh, for movies? Yes, you can easily do Dolby Headphone through media players. I thought you were talking about gaming, in which case it needs to be part of the audio device driver.

 

Cheap USB S/PDIF output devices may provide a passthrough, but remember that for sources that aren't already encoded in Dolby Digital or DTS, all you get is stereo unless they explicitly support Dolby Digital Live and/or DTS Connect.

The XBMC, for what i read (really can't test it, i will do it in this weekend), can do real time conversion from DTS to Dolby, to pass it by optical.

The games i play on Xbox and Wii. games on PC is only strategy / RTS, that not have surround sound.

Only waiting for the answer from Turtle bleach Ebay seller to buy the items.

Thanks so much for all here for helping me.

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Originally Posted by Naingolann 

New wireless headset from Sony: http://youtu.be/O-eBkK-uUfk

 

Looks cool... :o

I like how the first feature advertised is BassImpact Technology (TM). I am pretty sure I'd end up passing on these. Anything where the first key point is bass rarely meets my sound preferences. They do look nice, I will agree.

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Originally Posted by Mad Lust Envy 

The HE-400 is not really a basshead can. When directly compared to typical audiophile bassy cans like the 990, D7000, Pro 900, the HE-400 is quite obviously missing a lot of the bass presence. It's when the HE-400 is compared to balanced headphones like the DT880 and Q701 that the bass really stands out. So really, presence-wise, the HE-400 is in between a balanced can, and a bassy one. It's really in a good place, to be honest. What is does better than those I just mentioned, is that it does all frequencies of bass justice, whereas the others only do either sub bass, or mid bass justice, so at times, it can compete with those in terms of quantity because it doesn't have a recess in bass anywhere, where those do.
It also never injects bass where there isn't any, but if the audio demands bass, the HE-400 produces it wonderfully. With the D7000 and the rest, there will always be some bass bloat, making them sound unnatural at times.

Can I just say, it has been a crazy month!  I wound up ordering the HE-400s, w/ velours and they were great.  Everything you mentioned about them since getting them, became more abundantly clear when I put them on.  It was a whole lot more open(as far as sound leaking blaring from the back side). I didn't mind though, and the bass was just as described, not too much, not too little, there when it was asked and didn't have a mind of its own. Unfortunately, I had the problem like you had with DT880s, and my jaw was hurting after not too long a use. Bent them as much as I could, fiddled around with placement but it just kept happening. Maybe it's my small head, I dunno. I thought I'd try another set I wanted to try, so I bought the Pro 900s.  And I fell in love with them almost immediately.  After burn in, these things really sounded more natural than I thought a closed set would sound.  It doesn't sound like a closed set to me, and nothing sounded metallic to me(maybe it's the E17, I know you didn't have it when you had the Pro 900s, maybe it's just me).  Not having other sounds outside sneaking into my gaming session was nice too.  Comparing the two for myself I didn't feel like I was losing sound quality as far as gaming goes, music on the other hand was a little different.  The HE-400s were better for that, but that's okay.

FWIW(from a noobs perspective), I think your ranking is spot on, and I too think the pro 900s are quite comfortable.  Bravo! 

I agree with MLE, I miss the Ultrasone bass. :[

Will listen to the Signature DJ soon, Should be Ultrasone's ultra basshead can and the Signature Pro is ******* good, it's like Ultrasone kicked their whole lineup in the nuts while fending off all the bashers. 

Listen to this with your Ultrasone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEawTRfysJE&hd=1&t=2m0s

:D

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Originally Posted by AxelCloris 

 

I like how the first feature advertised is BassImpact Technology (TM). I am pretty sure I'd end up passing on these. Anything where the first key point is bass rarely meets my sound preferences. They do look nice, I will agree.

Knowing it's a Sony product intended for gamers I even doubt about the bass quality of the can in the first place. xD

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Originally Posted by Mad Lust Envy 


http://www.akg.com/site/products/powerslave,id,1340,pid,1340,nodeid,2,_language,EN.html

Smexy.

Well guys my pair of HD558's i ordered shipped today so I expect it here pretty soon.

After I get it I'll let you know my first impressions. I;m curious to see how these will be since I never use audiophile grade headphones.

Also I will be useing them for single player games and music.

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Originally Posted by Itachi HM 
The XBMC, for what i read (really can't test it, i will do it in this weekend), can do real time conversion from DTS to Dolby, to pass it by optical.

The games i play on Xbox and Wii. games on PC is only strategy / RTS, that not have surround sound.

 

Only waiting for the answer from Turtle bleach Ebay seller to buy the items.

 

Thanks so much for all here for helping me.

I wasn't aware of that feature...on the other hand, I only have XBMC on my Xbox as my dashboard of choice, and I generally leave my SU-DH1 connected to it, which is capable of DTS decoding.

Why stick to strategy games on the PC and leave everything else to the consoles? Just curious...if you were going to bring up FPS/TPS, then I regard the PC as the go-to platform for that if you've got a system with enough graphics performance for PC gaming.