Quote:   They aren't the most comfortable headset, but not bad.  the clamping force is slightly tight for my preference, and the pleather earpads can get warm.  I have a medium sized head and can use it for ~2 hours without noticing them too much.  I guess it depends on your tolerance.

Quote: strange.  I had no pairing issues either.  I had my TV's headphone out plugged into the 3.5mm input on the dongle, and the dongle was plugged into the ps3. 

Quote:     The 3.5mm input on the dongle worked just fine for me when I used the ps3 to power it.  Or are you saying the optical out still won't work if the dongle is plugged in no matter what?

Quote:   yeah, the more I listen, the more I agree that Sony's VSS is a few notches below Dolby Headphone.  I can tell where sounds are coming from, and it gets the job done for the most part, but it's not as immersive or easy to distinguish directions as DH.   I'd like to eventually...

Quote:   are you still experiencing sound drops with the 2013 Mixamp?

I'm not an audiophile (I just like to lurk here), so take this with a grain of salt, but here are my initial impressions from testing them out for the first time last night:   So far, I'm quite satisfied. The surround sound simulation worked fairly well with BF3 and Infamous 2. I could...

Since you have plus, you can let it auto patch overnight. You just need to open the game, cancel the patch, and exit the game to get PS+ to recognize it. As long as you have ps+ auto updates turned on ( somewhere in system settings), it'll install the patches overnight.

Because of the problems with the 2013 mixamp I may just have to order the wireless a30 bundle. Too bad they don't sell the 5.8 mixamp anymore individually

Denon, pioneer, and newer harmon kardon receivers have have their own implementation of headphone surround sound. Maybe no one uses those with headphones enough to talk about it, or those versions suck. I don't know.

Does anyone know how well Onkyo's "Theater-Dimensional Virtual Surround" works with headphones? I've seen it listed as a feature on some of their receivers.

Have you guys with the 2013 Mixamp had any audio dropout troubles?  It sounds like the usb cable they provide might be partly to blame for such issues?

Quote:   Unless I'm missing something, you're not going to get true 5.1 sound through stereo rca cables.  It'll just be upmixed to Dolby ProLogic.

well, that went fast:  

Any idea when the Plyr 1 will be out?  It sounds like that will come with a virtual surround sound device of some sort.

Quote:   Nice!  Has anyone here compared these with the Samson SR850?  Since they are similar prices, I'm not sure which I should get for Movies and gaming.  From their individual reviews, it's sounds like both are fairly well balanced,  so I guess it comes more down to which has the...

Hmmm CAL for $60 or Samson SR850 for $53? I assume the sr850 have better soundstage?

Wait, so Silent Cinema gives better positional audio than Dolby Headphone now?

I'm very close to doing the same thing. But which is better, DSS2 or Recon3D?

Get a Bluetooth mic and duct tape that sucker to your headphones. :D

now Astro is saying mid-December for the standalone mixamp.  this is getting ridiculous.   Maybe I'll just give up waiting and get the DSS2.  I'll be mostly using a bluetooth mic for chat anyway.  Although it would be nice to have wired chat as an option (not to mention official dolby...

Quote:   Considering that they originally said Mid-November, and pushed into December, I suspect they are trying to work out some of the supposed quality issues first.  Who knows.  

As far as availability, Astro's Twitter said "early December" in a reply to someone on Nov. 30.

You can still get Dolby digital 5.1 with optical. Would LPCM 5.1 really be that big of a noticeable difference in quality with Dolby Headphone? I'm guessing no.

Quote: yeah, it works pretty well!

Other than the controller feedback, do you hear any hiss or buzzing? Can you test it on a ps3 too?