I can't stand going into Best Buy anymore. I am big into computers and although I buy most of my stuff online now from newegg.com or a similar site every so often I like to go out and look at things on the shelves or once a Blue Moon I might actually find something equal to the price I'd buy it...

I've read most 5.1 headphones are gimmicky.

when I use Q-tips I only clean around the opening to the canal (I guess that's what its called). I never stick them any deeper than that because I'm worried about damaging something and/or hurting myself.

I have dolby headphone support with my Nvidia Purevideo dvd decoder. I'll give it a try later and let you know what I think. Usually I keep the settings on 5.1 and use the Creative control panel.

I call sickest thread of the year so far.

Quote: Originally Posted by halcyon CMSS 1 and 2 have this effect on me too. CMSS3D on the X-Fi is a real generic HRTF implementation though. That is, a real headphone based virtualisation implementation. It works ever so much better than CMSS1 or CMSS2 on Audigy series, although not...

this isn't rocket science.

My Audigy 2 ZS doesn't have a seperate headphone jack so I usually unplug the corresponding speaker cable and switch back and forth that way. With my old crappy headphones I use to plug them into the headphone jack on my 5.1 Logitech's but figured it kills the quality so with my new cans I...

Quote: Originally Posted by maarek99 It shouldn't matter what is selected in windows control panel. Actually I find when the Windows control panel is not on 5.1, my headphones sound horrible no matter what I set the Creative cp to. In CS:S the in-game setting synchronizes with the...

definitely post pics so I can see what you are talking about. would this mod apply to the hd555s? although I don't think it would be smart to do considering I just got them...

well I am a major newb to this forum and perfectly happy with my recently purchased hd555s but I have to say when I first heard the term veil, not knowning what it meant or which headphones it applied to, my instant reaction was it must be a negative thing. On the other hand, if "veil" would...

Quote: Originally Posted by luukas Didn't Carmack agree to Creative's terms to avoid any further hassle? Meh, stupid software patents. Even worse though that a huge company like CL uses them to strongarm those who don't give a damn about EAX etc. Quake 4 has EAX builtin and that...

how much should they be?

so why do they call it a veil? why not just say they sound different lol i am newb...

so what's the truth? two conflicting opinions so far...