Does anyone have experience safely washing the pads? I want to prep mine for sale but I'm afraid to damage the memory foam. The foam itself is still nice and firm after around 2000-3000 hours of use.

  Quote:   Quote: I'll look into the A700X's and HP100's, thanks guys.

The Beyers look pretty nice for competitive gaming, not sure I'd like how it sounds for general use though, especially since I'd be frequently switching between the K7XXs.  All Beyerdynamics certainly look very comfortable, though.

Have those, they're just not working out for me in the comfort department(weight and overall bulk). I'll generally opt to use the K7XX's and crank the volume louder than I should.

What do you guys think of using the DT770s with some EQ (equalizer apo) to lower the bass when "competitive" gaming? Seems like a winner based off Madlust's review.  I'm trying to find a comfortable closed-back to compliment my K7XX's for gaming when it's noisy and they seem to fit the bill if...

Quote: That's something I wish I knew more about, the output impedance of various headphone outs in particular. I know the Titanium HD is around 36 ohm, and the Xonar STX around 10 ohm.  I think most Xonar cards are 100 ohm. One card I'd like to know the output impedance of is the...

Hi Brooko, thanks for the post. I did try that trick and it does work as expected. My issue is the latency with Stereo Mix is too high and it drives me nuts. I'd take less-than-optimal SQ over 100ms+ added latency any day when it comes to anything fast paced or for rhythm games. I take it you...

There's some CMSS3D / Dolby Headphone encoded comparisons on youtube... listen for yourself. Here's one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ApNLMmeAs I found a thread with recordings comparing the two in many games but can't find the link now.   Found it...

Yeah, card seems fine otherwise. Finding so many conflicting answers on whether or not this is supposed to work when googling around.   I'm getting the feeling it only works on CA20K2 based cards, ie: Titanium HD and Auzentech Forte.

Quote: Finally got my X-fi Titanium (SB0880) after 2.5 weeks.. USPS to Canada takes forever.  I tried this and it only works in "Audio Creation Mode", in which there is no CMSS3D. Only tried it for a bit but CMSS3D sounds pretty much the same as X-fi MB2... perhaps a little more seamless...

You can try this http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Latency_Test I just tried it out with a headset mic listening to my headphones. Realtek headphone out = 200ms Realtek headpohne out with X-fi MB2 CMSS3DH on = 250ms uDac via Stereo Mix = 315ms uDac via Stereo Mix with  X-fi MB2 CMSS3DH...

Quote: I think he means RCA. Any idea if windows allows you to set SPDIF to 5.1 with a Dolby Digital Live or DTS connect audio device? That's the only way I'm seeing CMSS3DH or Dolby headphone working over SPDIF. My motherboard has neither.

I couldn't tell a difference between stereo mix and just my uDac alone in games, but I don't have golden ears either.  The difference between my motherboard's headphone jack and the uDac however, is very apparent.  The latency is a dealbreaker for me, though. 90ms is very noticeable to me. If...

Thanks for this guide, helped me a lot. I was completely oblivious as to how good surround emulation was on headphones until recently. I tried some Doom 3 with X-fi MB2 and it's unreal.   If anyone's interested in the Stereo Mix lag, I crudely measured it at about 90ms, recording a beep from...