Quote: It has! For me, Dolby Headphone is an immense improvement over DHTV4 and Pro Studio. I may pony up and get a better DAC at some point though.

Alright, So after using the Phoebus, Z, and DGX, I can confidently say I like Dolby headphone the best. DHTV4 and Prostudio felt gimicky to me, and there was an instant difference for me. BF3 ounded much better in Dolby Headphone mode, with no other processing.   I will be returning the Z.  

I picked up the DGX, and am installing it now. Installing the Unified Xonar C-Media Driver  

Quote: I'm not sure what you mean, Creative just released the Z series.

Quote:   To answer you earlier questions, the M-Stage got here today, so its already bought. Im copying my post from Nameless' thread:   ****Eh, so my M-Stage came today (Wasnt expecting it) which caused me to have a mad dash to Microcenter before they closed, and they only had the...

Quote: Eh, so my M-Stage came today (Wasnt expecting it) which caused me to have a mad dash to Microcenter before they closed, and they only had the Creative Z, not the DGX, like I want. So i bought it and brought it home. Currently have it set up like: Z->Front line out-> RCA-> M-Stage->...

Quote: Thats awesome, And I will def try the DGX-Mstage-Annies. The M Stage is already bought.   The thought about the receiver is that i could do GTX570 HDMI Out -> marantz receiver < M Stage-> Annies                                                                                    ...

Quote:     Okay, so you have confirmed that DH does infact use an encoded 5.1 signal. That was what i was asking, and not sure if true. I have also suspected that if you give the marantz receiver a stereo signal it would try to use dolby pro logic give you a (not as good) DH signal.  ...

Quote:     This is how I understand it too. I was going more along the lines of using the DH from a sound card like a DGX, then just using any old receiver/DAC with an HDMI input to convert it to stereo.   Although I guess what you said would be easier, wonder if the Marantz...

Quote: Certainly   and WRT your thoughts on HDMI, that's a whole 'nother biscuit. I am wondering what would happen if you connect your sound card to the Video card, if you could pass any DH processing, or 5.1 out through the HDMI.

re: DTS:X   The DTS Headphone:X experience first requires surround content to be encoded as a DTS-HD bitstream, with the room information embedded in the stream. Next, DTS Headphone:X (embedded on a PC, tablet or phone) calibrates the headphones. Finally, the reference data is decoded and...

Quote:   Yes I wrote about the Phoebus a while back.   For you or anyone else that cares, i will reiterate my thoughts so far:   My old Logitech G35 used Dolby Headphone, and i loved it. I was going to get the Xonar STX when my annies came because I could have picked it up at...

Quote: The Phoebus doesnt have DH, it has Dolby Home theater V4, and I don't like it very much.   Right now I am using Phoebus-> Optical out with the DHTV4 processing-> Old Pioneer receiver-> Headphone out.     M-Stage is on the way.   I was going to return the pheobus and get...

Yeah but then I need a DAC.. which was the plan originally  

Well I understand that, Just going off the theory that the M-stage would drive the headphones better, and it is already bought, I would like to use it as well.