Awesome write up Nameless, no doubt I was one of the people you had to repeat yourself too.  Not sure if I talked to you about this other day, but I was really disappointed with my purchase of AD700's.  I was disappointed because I sold my G35's expecting the AD700's to be much more accurate...

I understand your point, but I have been using the AD700's for over a month now. Yes, it did improve slightly, but it is still not nearly comparable to the G35's. Personally, I think when I get a sound card things will change. I just want to know if the G35's on board sound still processes...

  Quote: Maybe if you read my original post you would understand I wasn't calling the AD700's sound horrible but the G35's. My only issue with the AD700's is they don't perform as well as the G35's with the same setup/settings.   

Hey Nameless, From what I have read COD4 does not use DirectSound3D it only uses DirectSound.  The whole reason why I created this thread was because I too was baffled why without drivers installed, and surround sound off the G35's were much much more accurate in game and I could pinpoint...

I read the thread you linked me too. Not sure why you posted it though as it doesn't answer any of my questions and I already said the sound quality is horrible.

Hi guys, I have some questions regarding Logitech G35's, I use to own a pair before I sold it and replaced it with a pair of AD700's. I used Realtek ALC883? on board sound.   Now I only used the G35's for playing COD4 promod.  I never installed any of the drivers, I just plugged the...

Well, I guess I have to get a sound card because these AD700's I got are worse than my G35's with onboard sound.

Yea, that is a possible problem, I wish I knew how sound in COD4 really worked. Then I could find the best sound card for it :c

When I had the G35's I tried many different configurations until I was happy, I can't exactly remember if I had it on stereo headset or 5.1 though. How exactly does the windows settings influence the sound?

Ah ok, you don't think COD4 on pc could have made the Dolby Headphone sound muddled?  

That's weird because when I used the surround sound option on the Logitech G35's my ingame sound was completely screwed, I mean it was horrible. With it off I could to a certain extent pin point enemies. Either my settings were wrong with the G35 surround sound on or you are playing a different...

Ok, fair enough. I have another question. I have used Logitech G35's before but found they sounded like muddled when the surround sound option in the drivers was turned on, I also found the sound was clearer if in game I use stereo as my setting. Now to my understanding G35's have dolby...

So Danthrax, if nameless is saying get the Xonar DG because of Dolby headphone, and you are saying the DG will sound better than on-board with dolby headphone off, does this mean that the Asus Xonar D1 or a better sound card would give better in game sound? I am having a hard time finding...

Ah ok, looks like I'll be getting an Asus Xonar DG although I would have preferred a Xonar D1 but it costs more.   Nameless, are you sure that Dolby headphone will actually help? I keep hearing that it sometimes muddles the sound. I want the best possible clarity/direction/accuracy :P

COD4 audio settings only contain a volume slider, kHZ settings (44 kHZ) being the max, sound EQ filter (on/off) and then Speaker config ranging from Windows Default, Mono, Stereo, 4 Speakers, 5.1 Speakers.   So, that seems to be all you can change.