Fotopaul
100+ Head-Fier
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Well it's money well spent imho if you want Xbox chat without hassle. The sweet thing with the X7 is that you can now very easily adjust the chat volume with the X7 mixer.
You will need a 3.5mm make to to rca male cable to connect from the Mixamp stream out (3.5mm female) to the X7 stereo in (rca) with the Mix amp comes a y splitter cable. Very important that you use this splitter cable to connect your mic signal from your headset (or external mic) you can't just plug in the mic directy into the mix amp as it will not separate the mic in and headphone out from the jack.
Make sure you get good cables, I got a 3.5mm to rca from amazon that was garbage and gave a lot of hiss.
Also make sure you adjust the stream out (on the mixmp) and line in on the X7 to prevent from getting to much gain and noise from the the Mixamp.
I actually use a switch for my Mixamp as it's connected to both my Mac and my Xbox one X. With a press of a button i connect to the Mac and can open the Mixamp software, click again and it connects back to the Xbox. Not that useful now as i don't use the Mixamp for other then chat, and once i set the noise gate and stream out gain i really don't change it. But when i used the Mixamp on its own it was handy to switch to the mixamp software to make the presets for different headphones etc.
Yes you have to feed the chat audio into tthe X7 which you use as your decoder/DAC/headphone amp. As long as you get a high quality cable it will work great.
Then your doing it wrong, where do you take the xbox chat from and how do you feed into the X7 ? The way i explained is not a matter of hit or miss, it works. The only reason i mentioned the cable is bad cables can often be the culprit from static and noise.
Can you use the Android app to do the same thing? Then all someone would need is their (android) phone.It does, so if you have your xbox away from your pc it's not ideal. For me though, I have everything at my desk : X7, PC, PS4, Switch, etc. so it works.
I did some blind AB-Tests with the SMSL SU-8 yesterday, comparing it to my Creative X7 using a passive switch and Virtual Audio cable and my girlfriend connecting the two DACs in random order, so I didn't know which switch setting was which DAC. There was absolutely no difference. I could not for the life of it discern between the two.
The X7 is a very nicely designed product from X7 and a real keeper for me, since it is superior feature-wise and offers tons of connection options. However, I could'nt make out any difference between different Opamps either (Burson V5-i vs AD604)
Scout mode is useless imho and should not be used. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a good DAC/headphone amp just to make it sound like crap. The main benefit of the SBX (for me) is that I get positional audio cues, without sacrificing too much of the sound design in the game.
Besides neither Scout mode or SBX will affect the line in signal to that degree, in fact, I just tested the in line with a soundtrack from my phone and the effect scout and SBX has on the line in signal (opposed to the bitstream coming from the Xbox) is negligent.
Ill post some images and explanation later today.
So I was able to test again today. I swear at one point I had chat audio in both sides of the headphones at some point(my friend agreed with this). But when I tested this time, none of the settings seems to make a difference, I turned SBX/ scout mode, direct mode all on and off with no difference. I change the xbox audio settings, no difference. I went ahead and swapped the red and white RCA cables(mean red into white and vice versa, that did make the chat audio move from the right cup to the left, so perhaps the cable is bad. I can pick up another to test.
Update: So I changed the xbox speaker audio output from Dolby digital to stereo uncompressed and that fixed it, chat in both headphones. Changed it to DTS and it still worked, changed back to Dolby Digital and its still working. The odd thing is it still sounds louder(just chat not game audio) in the right cup. I used the control panel to lower the right side of of the line in and it seemed to turn both of them down, so I am thinking its a mono signal not stereo. Does that make sense?
Update 2: Internet told me I needed to provide the 3.5mm to RCA cable so I bought one on amazon, the one I have been using. But when I opened the X7 I noticed there appeared to be one. I just switched to that one and now my friend sounds louder in my left earphone. Super confused.
Where do you route your chat audio from into the X7 ?
Setiings on the xbox should be as follow:
Speaker Audio
HDMI audio
Off
Optical audio
Bitstream out
Bitstream Format
Dolby Digital