Back again with my noob questions..I started a new job and quite frankly it sucks not being able to use they very amazing essence during the day. I was thinking of maybe reselling it and getting a usb capable dac and amp to take back and forth to work/home. At work I use a stationary laptop with...

Ahh that would make sense as to why it has no optical input then...kind of a bum deal. I am seriously considering the mix amp though, not just for the surround. I have a really big issue with how low voice chat is when you use any other headphones but the standard 360 ones...ability to use your...

Yes, it has digital input, although I haven't thought to try it. Really I don't need the greatest quality ever for a videogame, I was just wondering if there would be a significant difference or not. I guess I can see for myself...thanks everyone.

Yes, I know it's digital...I guess what I mean is I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to get a different card with an spdif input + amp. For me, I would be using the card itself to process the sound. Just want to know if there's some huge difference between the line input I'm using now and an...

I have a Xonar essence and I love the hell out of it for music, but one thing that irks me about it is no SPDIF input, only output. I regularly play games on my Xbox360, but I'm using the line input on it right now. If I set it to HiFi mode, this is still pretty good...I get all the little...

Quote: Originally Posted by audionewbieyao The drivers pretty much fixed all my previous problems. If you want bug free device, I suggest you stay with onboard stuff, they're the best. Where did you find the new ones? I looked today on support.asus.com and it still only gives me...

I had another question about the card...since it says in the specs it outputs 24bit...should I enable the bit depth in foobar to be 24 instead of the default 16? Not sure if that's what bit depth is or not.

Quote: Originally Posted by Brando Could somebody with the Essence stx please run dxdiag and tell me if it works or not? Please list your motherboard and OS in your post as well. It blue screens and restarts when I try just like when I try to play FEAR. This is in windows xp 32 bit. The...

Quote: I should mention that with the current driver, I'm having issues getting the MIC IN working. Not a big deal as I have onboard for that, but I would like to get it resolved eventually. Anyone else having issues with MIC IN? I'm running vista x64 sp1 In the GUI make sure...

Nice I got them for about 235 with shipping...I got upgradeitis after a few days of the HD 555's...but im selling them to a friend so it all worked out.

Yes those are the ones...I was going to buy another pair new at 280 but some ass bid sniped me at the last second.

I really want to get this pair of Sennheiser 650's that I see, but the problem is that the guy says there's been about 300 hours of use on it. My question is do you think this will affect the headphones positively or negatively? They aren't that much cheaper than a set of new (about 50-100...

Alright, I guess I'm sold. I might try to find one on the used board as the $400 I see just from a google search seems kind of high, especially when I saw in the used board that someone sold one for $220. Quote: That's interesting, I've never seen outputs rated in terms of impedance. At...

Actually I just did a side by side w/ onboard and my sound card and I guess the bass is fine on it. I am just used to the onboard's bass which I noticed after the side by side is very "bloated" where as the sound cards is quick and tight. So I guess there is enough bass, I'm just not used to...

So I bought the HD555 recently (about a week ago) and I'm pretty impressed with it. It's my first non crap Walmart headphones so they are definitely a step up. My only problem with them is there seems to be a severe lack of bass, or more accurately the sound seems somewhat flat in a way. Kind of...