Quote: Yes I do not want to lose the sounds of footsteaps.  And yes the X-Fi Titanium is an excellent card.  So a card with an AMP will just make this LOUDER, and for in-gaming with these headsets may not be necessary if I'm understanding you correctly.  If so then it's just a matter of...

Quote:   Hi badbod.  Yes you are correct.  I am plugging them into the front of my DELL XPS 730x that has 2 input connectors (1 mic, 1 headset).  That is for convenience AND the line-in/mic connector on the back of my sound card does not work, but the line out 1, does and I can hear. ...

Thanks "badbod" for your replies.  I don't want to mod them per se, as so for now I've tweaked my audio card settings via the software and the bass is getting a little better now that I'm burning them in.  But the one thing I do NOT want to lose is the positional audio (i..e hearing footsteps of...

Hey everyone.  New to this forum because I came across this thread via a google search and saw this.  Here's my situation.   My PC/rig specs   DELL XPS 730x O/S: Windows 7 (64-bit) SP1 (Service Pack 1) 6GB RAM 2 hard drives (300GB velociraptor @10k rpm; 1 TB @7.2k rpm) Sound...