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Headphoneus Supremus
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Pardon me, I thought we were talking gaming here, not music listening.
That said.... not sure where you're getting this notion that Windows playback is horrible. This very, very far from my experience. There is also absolutely no difference in playback from Win XP and Win7 to my ears. I'll leave it at that as this is a gaming thread.
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That said.... not sure where you're getting this notion that Windows playback is horrible. This very, very far from my experience. There is also absolutely no difference in playback from Win XP and Win7 to my ears. I'll leave it at that as this is a gaming thread.
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Personally I have my music on the PS3 in lossless, I output that to the line in port of my PC soundcard and play via the PS3 music player....so the soundcard interprets the audio signal instead of my television.....and I have my headphones plugged into the soundcard also....and plus the Windows audio is bypassed obviously as are the many media players of varying quality and EQ's - the difference to my ear was phenomenal. Everything else being exactly the same playing the files through Windows media players is unbelievably poor and muffled. Especially on Windows XP. It's not as bad on Windows7 but still pretty terrible. Compared to that, setting it up so the PS3 plays the music instead the difference is you feel enveloped in the sound almost like you're in the studio. It's so crisp and clear because it's not being drowned by the shoddy that is Microsoft. Sometimes I think the only thing they do right is marketing and cornering markets for themselves, they're also not the most likeable as companies go - they riff from every competition going rather than innovate for themselves and yet they cannot stand it when someone imitates them. Anyway I assume the 360 is equally as good for audio playback under the same circumstances. Also not sure how people would get on using Mac's or Linux - I just know Windows audio playback absolutely stinks.