Hi guys. I've got a pair of he500's that are missing one of the headband screws, and have some surface rust on the headband arms. Aside from that, they are in perfect working condition, and include the hard clamshell case, and a custom 6ft cable from best in the verse. I have the default velour...

May have to throw the he-400 into the discussion now.

My friend is coming from a pair of hd 598's, but he finds them a bit muffled/vieled?   He's looking for a more immersive feel, and wants clarity, soundstage, depth, immersion. Isn't too fussed about booming bass.   He has also tried the ad700x, and found them too thin sounding, and empty.  ...

Thanks for the info on the mixamp. Had no idea it overrides the soundcard DAC. As for the settings I have tried those. And I use very similar settings. I will try reinstalling the drivers, but I already did have the unified drivers. Using those settings I have to turn the mixamp to about 50-60...

As far as I know. Many other people have uses tgese headphones with the same card without volume issues. And inseed. When I run my mixamp through it it makes the mixamp quieter. Surely Asus wouldn't intend for this soundcard to be unusable with standard headphones? My real problem here is I...

Hi. I have always had the xonar connected to the power supply through the 4 pin. I will try disabling realtek drivers. (Have now tried this. It did nothing to the volume.) I have been plugging my headphones into the xonar card itself. Not into a header. When I say the headphones are louder...

As the title says. My xonar DX is producing very quiet sound through ny headphones. Pluggibg the headphones into the motherboard makes the sound several times louder. Even running my astro mixamp through the spdif port and the headphones through that isn't nearly as loud as just plugging my...

 The eq settings that the mixamp has, particularly the lower end boost function is nice in a pinch.

About a year ago, I bought the astro a40 2013 bundle of headset and mixamp, along with an asus xonar dx soundcard. The bundle was a good price at the time, and I thought the mixamp would be useful in future. However I am now planning on an upgrade to a pair of ath ad700's, and have a couple of...

My astro headphones have virtual 5.1 when used through optical. Then upscaled and processed by the amp to 7.1. So in the soundcard it is set to the headsets audio of 5.1, then the mixamp does the rest. I was wondering if this would lower overall quality when used with stereo headphones like the...

In that case, how does setting 8 audio channels work? I know with my mixamp it upscales to 7.1 virtual channels ddl by doing some processing.

How do DDL and PCM compare? 

About a year ago, I bought the Astro a40 2013 bundle to get the mixamp, and an "OK" headset to see me through until I got more into competitive fps. I'm ordering a pair of the ad700's due to the overwhelming acclaim of it's positional audio for the price. However, I still have this mixamp, and...