You'd use the G6's optical out and send the signal out to the Hel through an optical cable. The advantage would be that the Hel is a stronger amp if your headphones aren't powered well by the G6 but only a few will really have this issue.

It can't power speakers Creative have a headphone and speaker amp available you can see it in MLEs picture on the previous page I believe its X7 and it used to retail at around $300.

I mean it measured really well at ASR. I think its very competent especially for gaming where you don't see the best quality recordings or audio engineering (although I do think that's slowly improving).

Out of curiosity do you prefer the Schiit stuff over say something like Topping?

I think he's saying use it as a DAC and pair it with an atom or a stronger amp for your headphones. A question for you I have is do you get enough power from the G6? Have you compared it with a stronger amp to see what it would sound like?

If you want it for the playstation mainly and want to be sure it will always work for it buy the blue. Warranty is a big deal too I think too many things stack for you and buying the blue makes sense. If you were in the US it would be easier to sell it if later on the xbox one didnt work for...

PC38x sound like they'd be right up your ally. As a weird but cheaper solution, which I love, is the kph30i with the grado pads. Both good solutions the mic on the 38x will be better certainly but man do I love the kph30i with the grado pads for $30 I don't think you can beat that value they...

Direct mode does work on the G6 and I only use that with tempest exclusively. None of the lights except for the red volume one should be on when it is active on the G6 with the PS5.

Just run it in direct mode dude there's no way you won't notice a difference. No lights should be on, on the side of the G6 and turn on tempest in the PS5 settings and calibrate it through that water flowing thing so its right to your ears. I use it with my Elex and its quite a noticeable step...

This is essentially exactly what I was trying to say as well in my middle paragraph, and yes I don't want to add anymore VSS I only want the equalizer to work as that would allow me to apply a Harmon curved eq to my headphones on the playstation, which I would like to try out without the added...

Haha a lot of acronyms in there was a difficult read but that is how I am planning on eventually using the soundblaster with the xbox through my TV's optical port. Have you purchased an extended mini-optical cable that you like? Also does the DD light mean anything on the PS5 console outside of...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. How many channels of audio would you need for a headphone? Tempest takes stereo audio and adds the VSS emulation that any other engine such as dolby atmos would add to it. From what I understand you don't get 7.1 channels as that doesn't make sense with...

Sony certainly allows Tempest 3D audio through the USB I am currently using the SoundblasterX G6 for that. Microsoft I am very disappointed in especially since they had very consumer friendly practices with most of their business model this seems like a cash grab.

Good review for the Penrose. I liked the Mobius when I owned it but if I'm being honest I expect more in the build department at that price point. I think if wireless isn't something you absolutely need I wouldn't choose it over the PC38x. I'm waiting on my G6 as I think the combination of that...

Maybe exchange it if you still can. For me personally I’m not very sensitive to mistimed audio on Bluetooth so it works awesome for me that way with my iPad/iPhone I don’t know how it is on Android since I think Apple uses AAC codec.