Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide (w/ Dolby Headphone): Updated: 2/19/2012 (petition added) - Page 242

Has anyone here played Crysis 2?  It's got pretty cool audio.  When you activate the suit the voice that comes from it is supposed to sound like it's coming from a helmet your wearing - kind of sounds like it's coming from behind you.  Also whenever you turn the suit functions on and off you get pretty deep bass rumble that sounds cool.

I assume Crysis 1 is the same, I need to download that and play it next time I get money.

I just keep finding these things

I'm not even looking for them.  

He's coming out with a desktop amp design with a 1/4 inch plug soonish, like in February, and it can also can integrate a DAC.  

And more playing Dirt 2 using Rapture3D has convinced me that rapture 3D is really good.  

Hey MLE, is the bass on D7000 too much for music like this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJ_SLojrsI

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I can't make a guess about that because my current system doesnt have bass at all.

I'm thinking of buying d7k and titaniumHD soundcard off amazon but im not really sure if they'll even ship to europe...somewhere on the site I read they will ship electronics with priority shipping that costs 30€ and somewhere they said they won't ship electronics outside US.

MMMM Volbeat so tasty. I wonder if the D7000 are just plain fast enough to handle Anders bass lines. I would hope for that price it would though.
 

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Originally Posted by Mavekovis 

Hey MLE, is the bass on D7000 too much for music like this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oJ_SLojrsI

 

thankss

 

I can't make a guess about that because my current system doesnt have bass at all.

 

 

I'm thinking of buying d7k and titaniumHD soundcard off amazon but im not really sure if they'll even ship to europe...somewhere on the site I read they will ship electronics with priority shipping that costs 30€ and somewhere they said they won't ship electronics outside US.

I was wondering if I buy a soundcard with DH and run that through an amp/dac will the output still be able to be surround sound? I was planning on just going the xonar dg with Beyerdynamic DT 880/AKG Q701 (lets just assume a Fiio e9 + d3 for the sake of argument).

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Originally Posted by LilBuck 

I was wondering if I buy a soundcard with DH and run that through an amp/dac will the output still be able to be surround sound? I was planning on just going the xonar dg with Beyerdynamic DT 880/AKG Q701 (lets just assume a Fiio e9 + d3 for the sake of argument).

Once the soundcard converts it to dolby headphone, you have keep the signal analog.  Dobly headphone is strictly an analog signal and is tied to the analog stage of whatever device (mixamp, soundcard, reciever, etc)  . You can't chain DACs together.  You can amp your soundcard, although you may not need to.

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Originally Posted by chicolom 

Once the soundcard converts it to dolby headphone, you have keep the signal analog.  Dobly headphone is strictly an analog signal and is tied to the analog stage of whatever device (mixamp, soundcard, reciever, etc)  . You can't chain DACs together.  You can amp your soundcard, although you may not need to.

That just isn't true.  Do they not make cards that actually let you do that?  If so they're just screwing you over because there's no technical limitation that prevents it.

After its processed by the dolby headphone DSP its not any different from any other 2 channel signal.  The D in DSP is digital.  Its not some complicated analog circuit.  The 6 or 8 channels of surround sound are converted in a 2 channel signal digitally and then fed to a DAC chip whether its in your soundcard, receiver, or mixamp.   Besides there not being an option in the drivers to actually do it there is no reason it couldn't be output as 2 channel PCM over S/PDIF to the DAC or your choice.

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Originally Posted by maverickronin 

That just isn't true.  Do they not make cards that actually let you do that?  If so they're just screwing you over because there's no technical limitation that prevents it.

 

After its processed by the dolby headphone DSP its not any different from any other 2 channel signal.  The D in DSP is digital.  Its not some complicated analog circuit.  The 6 or 8 channels of surround sound are converted in a 2 channel signal digitally and then fed to a DAC chip whether its in your soundcard, receiver, or mixamp.   Besides there not being an option in the drivers to actually do it there is no reason it couldn't be output as 2 channel PCM over S/PDIF to the DAC or your choice.

Technically a card could convert the stereo 5.1 Dolby Digital into dolby headphone (stereo) and then bypass the analog out and keep the stereo signal digital, thus letting another dac turn the digital stereo dolby headphone signal into analog.  I don't know of any that do that though. 

I thought it was a licensing thing where the card is paying dolby for the tech and in return dolby want the device to tie the DSP to the analog out to prevent people getting the DH signal digitally and outputting  other devices.

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Originally Posted by Mad Lust Envy 

I don't see how DH can turn back to basic stereo. For all intents and purposes, a converted Dolby Headphone audio signal will just read as stereo for every device after it. Or am I missing something here?

I was just saying that theoretically you could go 5.1 Dolby Digital  > stereo Dolby Headphone (still digital signal)> output DH processed digital stereo signal to another DAC to convert to analog stereo.

I don't think you could remove the DH processing from a signal though...