dwthewhiteness
New Head-Fier
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Hello all. I recently purchased a pair of HE-500 headphones, and am looking to get the best from them in all my applications. I'm currently setting up my video game systems (Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U) to my station and in looking at how to connect headphones I've noticed that my console monitor (an LG W2753V) has a headphone output jack. So I've connected my consoles via HDMI for video and then have sound being output through the headphone jack to some headphones.
My concern is this: there is no way that whatever DAC is present in this monitor (a $400 one with no speakers or any other audio capabilities) is at all on par with the ones that exist in my consoles. I am also worried that Dolby or DTS encoding or whatever gives positional cues won't be rendered by the monitor when it decodes the signal to send to the headphones. Maybe I'm wrong and the monitor's DAC is perfectly fine, that's why I'm here to ask all of you.
SHould I stay away from the monitor and connect the headphones directly to the consoles' audio outs (after going to an amp, of course), or am I fine with staying hooked up.to the monitor? Is there any disadvantage of degradation of quality that I'm incurring my going through the monitor rather than the consoles directly? Thanks for the help!
My concern is this: there is no way that whatever DAC is present in this monitor (a $400 one with no speakers or any other audio capabilities) is at all on par with the ones that exist in my consoles. I am also worried that Dolby or DTS encoding or whatever gives positional cues won't be rendered by the monitor when it decodes the signal to send to the headphones. Maybe I'm wrong and the monitor's DAC is perfectly fine, that's why I'm here to ask all of you.
SHould I stay away from the monitor and connect the headphones directly to the consoles' audio outs (after going to an amp, of course), or am I fine with staying hooked up.to the monitor? Is there any disadvantage of degradation of quality that I'm incurring my going through the monitor rather than the consoles directly? Thanks for the help!