Dolby Headphones? Opinions?

[ROBSCIX]

Hey guys, I have seen a fe pairs of these combination Dolby Decoders and headphones. The decoders I seen will decode Dolby Digital Prologic II and DTS I believe over either Coax or Fibre. This unit I think uses the Dolby headphones technology. The decoder has a jack for the headphones so you don't need to use the included sub par units. I have done some research and it seems there are only a few pairs that are resonably priced. There is the set from Thrustmaster:
http://gear.ign.com/articles/583/583114p1.html
which look alot like the now gone HC technologies unit
and there is also a set from Creative labs.
http://www.creative.com/products/pro...&product=11430
I know alot of guys around here use headphone amps and such. I was just curious if anybody has tried these decoder units. Anyone own any of this gear or have any opinions?

 

[g_hause]

I had the Pioneer infrared DH rig. When I hooked my HD650 into an x-can v3 I never turned it on again. Good 2 channel beats 6 simulated channels any day.

 

[puiah11]

I had one of these a while ago

http://www.audiocubes.com/product/JV...e_Adapter.html

It worked ok but it's in my junk box now. Once I get a optical out for my computer I'll hook it up again and see how it sounds. You could just get a sound mixer board and then mix the SL and SR into the L and R with different volumes. I tried this once and it was pretty cool.

Here's the thread I wrote under the handle yobo on avs.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=682628

Nice think is you can just use and ol pair o cans and get the DH stuff.

Some high end receivers have dolby headphone but they cost bank. This standalone unit does it all itself. Also the US version doesn't have optional wall power so make sure to get the japanese model off of audiocubes if you want to bite on the product.

It bosst the volume about 5-10 dB. Pretty neat. Only reason I stopped using mine is because I haven't gotten a digital out for my pc box yet.

A lot of other people offer stuff like AKG wireless dolby. Panasonic and Sony both offer some products but I forget the model number. Some companies offer headphones with 8-10 drivers. I think the dolby headphone option is pretty much the crown of the solutions. Plus, Suber Bit DVDs sound awesome on DH1. The problem is not many DVDs have DH tracks like T3.

For SACD or DVD Audio I haven't tested it b/c I don't have anything other than CDs.

Hope that helps.

 

[ROBSCIX]

Yeah, That helped alot...I was just looking for different opinions on these devices.

 

[lini]

I've got one of those Thrustmaster thingies somewhere: not really a bad piece of electronics, but I'm not sure whether I'd really recommend it - especially as Creative's X-Fi CMSS 3D Headphone seems to work better than Dolby Headphone for me....

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini