It will be plugged into a Soundblaster Z, which has a built in head phone amplifier.     Any experience with the AKG K550  for gaming? Decent soundstage for a closed HP for FPS games?   Also anyone ever tried the Sennheiser G350? If I was able to get away with the sound leakage of a...

I did.  The vast majority of them are open headphones unfortunately.   A actually bought the Aurvanas based on that thread, but unfortunately the ear cup size is way too small for me.

Just starting out here and been reading the various threads on the site.  I am looking for good closed headphones with good sound isolation that I can use with music and games (fps, rpg, basically all types).   I purchased the Creative Aurvanas and they sound great, but I guess my head and...

OK cool. Thanks alot for the info!

  Any particular reason he prefers his onboard over the ZxR?  I honestly have not noticed a huge difference and only bought the SB Z as I thought I would need it to power my headphones properly. As it is, I don't think I needed them as I need to keep the volume on 7% when using the headphones...

OK thanks for the info. I assume that when I want to listen to music, I would then need to revert the Windows speaker settings to stereo? Is there any way to automate this process as I play games with both 2.1 speakers and the virtual surround in headphones.   Seems like a lot of going back...

Actually the only thing I don't like about the SB Live Control Panel is that I can't set volume settings for the headphone profile that are different from the speaker. Not sure if thats normal, though, for all cards.

No, not at all. Some quirkyness in the control panel, but otherwise I think its fine.  Then again, I do not know much about computer audio and was concerned after reading the first post in this topic.

I am a confused as to the proper way to setup virtual surround sound on my Creative Aurvana headphones with a Soundblaster Z sound card.    What I have done, but not sure is correct:   1. In the SB Z control panel, I set the speaker configuration to headphones.   2. In the SBX Pro Studio I...

I recently upgraded my computer from a built-in realtek to a Soundblaster Z card. I chose this card because of the built-in HP amplifier.   After discovering this topic, I see that Nameless suggests steering away from this card and I am wondering if I made the wrong choice.  Are these bad...

OK thanks

What if an adjoining bedroom to the space I am in has a open door?

Normally I listen to music all day ranging from george winston to pearl jam on my computer speakers.  At night, I also sometimes play FPS and other types of games on the computer.   Temporarily myself, and my family, have moved into a smaller apartment and I wanted to get headphones to not only...

Sorry for bumping this, but really looking forward to getting new headphones. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi All,   Terrific community here. Been reading up on here but still need some recommendations on a good, comfortable, closed, and over-the-ear headphone. I  purchased the Creative Aurvana headphones two days ago and though they sound great to me, the ear cups are just too small for my ears...