Picking sound card mostly for gaming - Page 3

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Originally Posted by foshow 

any of you guys considered the sound card from HT Omega? I have the Claro Halo and it did well for me during those days I was using it.. If a PCI card is a problem then I believe they have the eClaro for PCI-E usage.

For gaming

@ Roller: yeah, I used it for gaming, watching movies and listening to music on my pc. Most of their sound cards have a swappable OPAMP and I had my 4 opamp upgraded to the sound of my liking. You can check out their site (http://www.htomega.com/) to see the specs of their sound cards and compare it to the others if you wish to.

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Originally Posted by foshow 

@ Roller: yeah, I used it for gaming, watching movies and listening to music on my pc. Most of their sound cards have a swappable OPAMP and I had my 4 opamp upgraded to the sound of my liking. You can check out their site (http://www.htomega.com/) to see the specs of their sound cards and compare it to the others if you wish to.

I know of the HT Omega, just that for gaming purposes, it doesn't really have any of the feature set required for gaming. Overall, it's a quite high quality card, but not for gaming.

Actually, don't laugh...  I'm using Bose quiet comforts 2s right now with the Creative Soundblaster X-fi Titanium HD and it's putting out some great sound (after you tweek the EQ a little).  The titanium card sends 7.1 around your head.  Amazing sound with my CD's ripped at 320.  Big difference coming off of the onboard sound card on my motherboard.  Creative Soundblaster has been the leader in computer sound technology since they invented sound cards back in the late 80's early 90's.  I have had probably 8 soundblaster cards from way back starting with my Intel 486 pc with the original soundblaster (then on to live, autigy, Autigy 2, etc.).  They all worked flawlesly with great sound.

I don't know if I need a headphone amp/dac right now because it sounds great but if I upgrade my headphones I may need one.  Maybe when I upgrade?  I'm looking at upgrading to the Denon D2000 or D5000.  Not sure what yet.  Maybe the Senn HD650s but not sure about the open ear design on those?