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  1. NamelessPFG

    The Nameless Guide To PC Gaming Audio (with binaural headphone surround sound)

    From a gaming standpoint, it depends on which surround implementation you like better and what games you're playing. I've spent enough time with both that, for me, the GSX 1000 sounds better with software 7.1 mixed games in terms of sheer positional accuracy (something I've never said for any...
  2. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    To cut it short: I think Sennheiser just got everyone beat on virtual 7.1. Well, maybe save for the Smyth Realiser, but let's be realistic now - that thing's out of the budget of most people. The positional cues in Destiny 2 seem clearer to me on the GSX 1000 than my X-Fi Titanium HD, which is...
  3. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    I thought the PC350 didn't have the flip-up-to-mute mic boom and had the mute switch and volume control in-line rather than on the headset itself, actually. Maybe the Special Edition lifted those features from the PC360 - and on that note, I was actually trying to figure out if there was any...
  4. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    Good to hear that it works! It seemed like nobody else was watching, so I hardly got any feedback about it, chat or otherwise. While Twitch doesn't seem to be giving me the promised 60 FPS I wanted to stream with on my second monitor, if the audio cues are going through, clearly it's working...
  5. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    Okay, I admit my plans to stream got considerably delayed for a litany of reasons, not least of which was troubleshooting a little "backwards audio" issue last night, but I think I'm ready to go now - at around 6:30pm Eastern, compared to my original estimate. Don't worry about missing out...
  6. NamelessPFG

    The Nameless Guide To PC Gaming Audio (with binaural headphone surround sound)

    Guess who's back after a very long hiatus. This place wasn't exactly good for my bank account, I had nothing new to write about (let alone rewritten the existing guide outright), Ossic still hasn't delivered what they promised us Kickstarter backers... ...but I wound up being in the very...
  7. NamelessPFG

    Gaming options, sound car or external DAC

    I actually fed the GSX 1000 into the aux input on my X-Fi Titanium HD so I could record the 7.1 mixed output for anyone to listen to, and that's when the high noise floor suddenly struck me. It's not obvious when using a headset directly, but a sound card with decent line-in will ruthlessly...
  8. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    Oh, right, I should've linked that! It's, quite unsurprisingly, https://go.twitch.tv/namelesspfg I probably won't be streaming for several hours yet; 2am here on the US East Coast, I should rest up a bit. I don't know when I'll start, but it'll probably be in the afternoon. 2pm-4pm Eastern...
  9. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    All right, I'm done with work for tonight, and the weekend's finally here. Who's down for a Destiny 2 stream soon? I'll set it up so that you all can listen to the Sennheiser GSX 1000's virtual 7.1 mix in action. I may stream other games, but Destiny 2's the main one on my mind since work and...
  10. NamelessPFG

    Destiny

    Okay, I'm easing myself into this game a bit. Had some issues on launch day since I was getting weird freezes for a second or three every minute or so, and then the Windows 10 Fall Creators' Update dropped the next day. Had to sort out a lot of system-level stuff. Thankfully, the game runs fine...
  11. NamelessPFG

    LG V30

    Well, these past two posts are interesting. I did note that my Note 8 seemed to sound better out of the gate than my Note 4 (both are their respective US Snapdragon variants), but I obviously don't expect V-series or dedicated DAP quality out of it. (Note that I have yet to actually audition a...
  12. NamelessPFG

    LG V30

    Speaking of the Qualcomm DAC, I thought back to this little tweak over on XDA-developers and wondered how much better a typical Qualcomm-equipped smartphone (prior to SD820, anyway, won't work on that or later going by recent posts) would sound with it set up...
  13. NamelessPFG

    Destiny

    To be fair, Destiny 1 never had a PC release, with some very questionable excuses by some of the devs given. It wouldn't have been possible prior to the second game. I didn't have a PS4, either, so I had to play the first game's open beta on PS3. It was playable, but I was yearning for proper...
  14. NamelessPFG

    LG V30

    No sweat, just know that all-caps is often interpreted as shouting in forum conversation. I like using italic and bold formatting to convey emphasized tones of speech without sounding too loud about it, if the forum or messaging system permits it. At any rate, I'm just glad to see that the...
  15. NamelessPFG

    LG V30

    Teardown: Hey, I didn't see anything on iFixit regarding the V30 and still don't. Ease up. Hell, I didn't know JerryRigEverything did teardowns in addition to scratch/bend tests until recently, so iFixit was always my go-to source regarding teardowns of new tech (barring the times when they...
  16. NamelessPFG

    LG V30

    I can't say I'm fond of the V30 dropping the removable battery and IR blaster (things I quite liked on my Note 4 and commended LG for retaining on the V10 and V20), but if this video's any indication, they at least had some foresight about not attaching cables directly to the fingerprint scanner...
  17. NamelessPFG

    Destiny

    Well, I did something I don't usually do for new AAA games these days: pre-ordered Destiny 2 with a modest discount, just because I have a few friends who were really into the first game and are also going into the second, thus guaranteeing some good co-op in the times to come. I probably...
  18. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    Don't worry, you and the others didn't scare me off or anything. I just found out what I wanted along this crazy audiophile journey and had to keep out of here for my wallet's sake. Otherwise, I'd probably still be sinking hundreds, if not thousands into Stax setups, maybe with a Smyth Realiser...
  19. NamelessPFG

    Gaming options, sound car or external DAC

    CMSS-3D Headphone from a proper hardware-accelerated X-Fi card in Game Mode, usually. The main exception is if I fire up my retrogaming box and boot into Win98SE for certain old games that don't like modern computers and versions of Windows, then it's Aureal A3D in headphone mode. Too bad...
  20. NamelessPFG

    Are people using sound cards or dac's? What is the general opinion?

    Strictly speaking, any digital audio source needs a DAC somewhere in the chain before it hits the drivers, and then your ears. Sound cards just have internally mounted DACs and ADCs (because they have to handle mic input too), among other things. Anyway, I use an X-Fi Titanium HD in my main...
  21. NamelessPFG

    Mad Lust Envy's Headphone Gaming Guide: (8/18/2022: iFi GO Blu Review Added)

    Look who's back after a very long hiatus... I've got some stuff to review now, even if I haven't rewritten that very old PC gaming audio guide like I wanted to. It'll take me a while to form my impressions on the new gear, though. Wait. Back up a moment. You have the Ossic X en route...
  22. NamelessPFG

    Gaming options, sound car or external DAC

    Personally, I feel that virtual surround is indispensable and critical for my gaming enjoyment, but that's because it works on my ears and head without needing anything too exotic. You said it doesn't work for you, so chances are the only things that might work well are hideously expensive...
  23. NamelessPFG

    Best gaming mice

    I used to use a G502, since it was close to perfect for me, but then an interesting-looking Kickstarter popped up. Now I've had a new mouse for a few months, and more recently, a new keyboard to go alongside it. My setup's starting to look like some kinda Kickstarter battlestation, only missing...
  24. NamelessPFG

    Keyboard-Fi

    I've returned here since I think I've found my next keyboard in the months to come: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/294674098/freestyle-edge-the-ultimate-split-gaming-keyboard   I've been wanting a split keyboard for a while, and this looks like just the ticket, with the early bird...
  25. NamelessPFG

    Are you a console or PC gamer?

      I'm not happy about the exclusivity thing, but thankfully, with Oculus Touch finally out, we're starting to see feature parity between the two camps.   It's not quite there yet in that two-sensor, opposed-corner tracking isn't reliable enough for my liking with Rift + Touch, though. I'm...
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