Jiggerjuice
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I have an Onkyo HT-R510 receiver. It has speakers plugged in at 6.1 surround. It has speaker-mode surround sound modes, but when I plug my headphones in, I can only seem to find two headphone modes - Direct and Stereo, both of which seem to be in PCM mode. I don't really even know what PCM mode means. I'm assuming stereo is just left/right channels, but don't know what Direct means - Onkyo user manual doesn't really help in explaining.
Receiver is connected via my motherboard Realtek optical out, so TOSlink I guess. The optical output has what feels like a plastic tube that moves digital to the receiver. So the receiver must have a DAC otherwise I couldn't possibly get stereo analog...
So... if Direct means direct optical from the source, does that mean I need a... Dobly 3d something or another plugged in inbetween my receiver and my headphones?
Or how do I get my receiver to output 3d surround in 5.1/6.1 into my headphones? Would it have to be via the motherboard itself, meaning some Realtek drivers that support 3d? Or would getting a soundcard that optical outs into the receiver give me 3d sound in Direct mode?
So many confusing things... All I want to do is spank face in BF4. Right now it's just a huge mountain of sound with no directionality at all.
Receiver is connected via my motherboard Realtek optical out, so TOSlink I guess. The optical output has what feels like a plastic tube that moves digital to the receiver. So the receiver must have a DAC otherwise I couldn't possibly get stereo analog...
So... if Direct means direct optical from the source, does that mean I need a... Dobly 3d something or another plugged in inbetween my receiver and my headphones?
Or how do I get my receiver to output 3d surround in 5.1/6.1 into my headphones? Would it have to be via the motherboard itself, meaning some Realtek drivers that support 3d? Or would getting a soundcard that optical outs into the receiver give me 3d sound in Direct mode?
So many confusing things... All I want to do is spank face in BF4. Right now it's just a huge mountain of sound with no directionality at all.