It's been a while since I've posted in this thread but I'm kind of over the whole virtual surround thing now.    I'm using a Fiio E10K and HD 598s/AKG K550s on my desktop and an Astro A40 Mixamp (old version) for my consoles.    I have a lot of issues with the mixamp though, and since I...

So I've got my eyes on a new laptop, specifically the Acer Aspire S7-392 and I was thinking it would be nice to get surround sound from it for movies.   It comes with Dolby Home Theater (presumably V4), so I guess I'd use that as a HRTF? Is it any good compared to a hardware implementation?

  Hmm, I'd been intending to get an X-Fi Titanium HD for use with my HD 598s and Schiit Magni but according to this that's not the best idea?   Anyone else have experience with SBX?

Hey I don't know if any of you guys watched the AMD GPU conference, but they announced that their new cards will support "AstoundSound" on a hardware level.   Never heard of this tech before but the demos sound pretty great.   http://astoundsound.net/technology.php

Just learned that Razer has their own virtual surround implementation now.   http://www.razerzone.com/surround   Apparently it creates virtual 7.1 a la Dolby Headphone.

  Interesting, I don't suppose you'd be able to tell me what the cheapest one is?   The Realiser looks like an incredible piece of engineering, slightly out of my price range though.        Quote:   What I've decided on is an X-Fi Titanium HD to a Schiit Asgard to a pair of...

I just found out that the Wii U only supports LCPM over HDMI.    Not that I have any plans on getting one but I can't think of any way that headphone users could get surround sound from that.   Hopefully the PS4 keeps Toslink. 

Quote:   It seems that the SU-DH1 is impossible to find these days and the Astro A40 Mixamp doesn't support DTS, is that a big deal for gaming?   Would there be any point to using an external amp with either of these?

Thanks for your reply.   It's not that I want to use them simultaneously,  but I want both of them connected to my PC at the same time so I can switch between audio outputs without swapping cables around.   I was thinking if I didn't use an external DAC, I could connect a heaphone amp...

I have kind of a ridiculous query. Would I be able to use 2 Creative X-Fi Titanium cards in conjunction with one another?   I.e. If I had one of them configured to work with:   Sound Card ---> External DAC (via S/PDIF) ---> External Amp ---> Headphones   And the other configured...