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ATTN: People who own a sound card that supports Dolby Headphone, I have a question...

post #1 of 6
10/31/11 at 1:39pm
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Sometime in the future I plan to buy a sound card which supports Dolby Headphone. Can your sound card be configured so the Line-out has Dolby Headphone enabled? Right now I have an old go-vibe amp which I plan to use. Later on I'll build my own amp when I upgrade my HD555. For this reason I don't want to be stuck using the on-board headphone amp of the sound card.

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post #2 of 6
10/31/11 at 2:26pm

No, Dolby Headphone is not available with the line-out. You get (IIRC) Dolby Virtual Speaker instead, which works a little bit different but features the exact same amount of terrible.

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post #3 of 6
10/31/11 at 2:35pm
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Which sound card do you have?

 

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post #4 of 6
10/31/11 at 3:19pm

Essence ST.

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post #5 of 6
10/31/11 at 3:21pm

I think its depend on the implementation. As for what I know, the Xonar ST/STX doesn't support that while Xonar HDAV1.3 seems to be ok (from the manual, i don't have it ==) etc
 

 

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by fufula View Post

No, Dolby Headphone is not available with the line-out. You get (IIRC) Dolby Virtual Speaker instead, which works a little bit different but features the exact same amount of terrible.

well the "terrible" is so useful to me..
 

 

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post #6 of 6
10/31/11 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by MrKazador View Post
Sometime in the future I plan to buy a sound card which supports Dolby Headphone. Can your sound card be configured so the Line-out has Dolby Headphone enabled? Right now I have an old go-vibe amp which I plan to use. Later on I'll build my own amp when I upgrade my HD555. For this reason I don't want to be stuck using the on-board headphone amp of the sound card.

If you build your own external headphone amplifier with a digital input and the amp has Dolby Digital 5.1, you could then run a digital cable from a sound card with a digital output to the external headphone amplifier.

 

If you bought a Asus Xonar Essence STX and added $30 worth of quality op-amps (operational amplifiers), you could use 99% of the headphone out there and they would sound great.

So why the external amplifier?
 

 

 

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