Quote:  OpenAL mostly (especially for Vista). Creative's HRTF is fine with me, and again going from 128+ source objects to 5.1 sound and them downmixing to binaural doesn't seems to be a good idea. Direct transformation (3D sound objects -> binaural audio) seems more reasonable. Basically...

Quote: The soundcard comes first in my case: fast OpenAL etc. I'll have a look at wireless monitors. Thank you for your advice!

Quote: Thanks for the link, this look interesting. I am OK with wires behind my desk, so only headphones are a problem. As for convenience vs quality, the funny fact is that all the wireless phones with a digital input have Dolby decoder etc. instead of just stereo. I mean my SB/video...

Quote: Isn't Clip+ a MP3 player? Battery etc. is not a problem, the choice is :) My source a (relatively) new gaming desktop (SB is X-fi Fatal1ty). I want something wireless with digital input and digital transmission, so I was thinking about Pioneer DIR800c, Sony DS6000 and Sony...

Quote: This is going even more farther from headphones, but OK :) BT2.0 is 3Mb/s in theory. More than 2Mb/s in practice. That's twice more than one needs for uncompressed 16 48 stereo. And _original_ 802.11 is not really Wi-Fi (802.11 legacy was released around 1997, Wi-Fi Alliance...

Quote:   That was exactly my point :) Since the transmission is digital, its quality does not depend on the carrier (as long as losses are not too high). 200KB/s is somewhat less that 1mbit/sec, that is bandwidth of (ancient) fast infrared and original 802.11. As for digital, I tonally...

Quote: I just want to avoid that digital to analog to digital conversion. After all, uncompressed 16bit/48kHz stereo is about 200KByte/sec, anything can do that.  

Quote:   RS180 do not have digital input (no optical for sure, and manual never mentions SPDIF. Also digital RF should have the same quality as IR (i.e. defined by codec).

Hello everyone! I want to by wireless headphones for gaming mostly. I have X-Fi Fatal1ty in my desktop, so my idea is something with digital input and digital transmissions (i.e. no unnecessary digital-analog-digital conversion). Dolby etc is not really important -- input is going to be...