As a gamer, I am mostly interested in positional sound/audio features for headphones. I have experienced Dolby Headphone, CMSS-3D, and SBX Pro/Surround. Thus far, I find SBX Pro/Surround to have the best positional sound, but mostly because of a single advantage SBX Pro/Surround has over Dolby Headphone. The advantage is the lack of echo and reverberation that Dolby Headphone produces. Right now I use ASUS Xonar DGX with UNi drivers and improved 7.1 Shifter profile that does a great job of properly and accurately spreading positional cues and while it does help with reducing that annoying echo, it doesn't eliminate it or reduce it far enough.
I can get Sound Blaster Z that supports SBX Pro/Surround, but its not optimal with its 22ohm rating for my 64ohm Sennheiser HD-280 Pro headphones. I've already inquired about it in a different thread and know that it wouldn't be a big problem, but it would not be optimal either.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Dolby Home Theater v4 (DHT v4) and Dolby Advanced Audio v2 (DAA v2) ? I have an onboard Realtek ALC892 soundcard that has 2ohm rating and would be perfect for my headphones. It supports those 2 technologies - DHT v4 and DAA v2. Both of these technologies seem to support surround sound 5.1/7.1 virtualization just like Dolby Headphone. I have some questions about them:
- What is the difference between DHT v4 and DAA v2 headphone virtualization? Do they sound similar?
- Is either of them accurate enough to produce positional cues like Dolby Headphone? With Dolby Headphone, I can easily spot where the sound is coming from and it does create a big advantage when you can hear where the enemy's footstep sounds are coming from! I need the same exact degree of accuracy to be coming from either of these 2 technologies for them to be of any use to me.
I believe I saw thread around here (can't find it now) discussing DHT v4, but for a different card. There was a mention that DHT v4 was like Dolby Headphone, but it was not producing artifacts. What artifacts does Dolby Headphone produce? Is it the echo I was talking about earlier? This leads me to the most important questions:
- Does either DHT v4 or DAA v2 produce surround sound without any echo or with only a tiny amount of echo?
- How does DHT v4 and DAA v2 compare to SBX Pro? I recall seeing somewhere that SBX Pro/Surround is just a re-branded THX TruStudio Pro!!! Is that true? Does anyone have any experience with THX TruStudio Pro/Surround? How does it compare to Dolby Headphone?
I would appreciate feedback from those who actually tested these technologies and know about the Dolby Headphone's annoying echo and about SBX Pro's/Surrounds' superior positional audio/sound.
Thanks a bunch for reading my post!
I can get Sound Blaster Z that supports SBX Pro/Surround, but its not optimal with its 22ohm rating for my 64ohm Sennheiser HD-280 Pro headphones. I've already inquired about it in a different thread and know that it wouldn't be a big problem, but it would not be optimal either.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with Dolby Home Theater v4 (DHT v4) and Dolby Advanced Audio v2 (DAA v2) ? I have an onboard Realtek ALC892 soundcard that has 2ohm rating and would be perfect for my headphones. It supports those 2 technologies - DHT v4 and DAA v2. Both of these technologies seem to support surround sound 5.1/7.1 virtualization just like Dolby Headphone. I have some questions about them:
- What is the difference between DHT v4 and DAA v2 headphone virtualization? Do they sound similar?
- Is either of them accurate enough to produce positional cues like Dolby Headphone? With Dolby Headphone, I can easily spot where the sound is coming from and it does create a big advantage when you can hear where the enemy's footstep sounds are coming from! I need the same exact degree of accuracy to be coming from either of these 2 technologies for them to be of any use to me.
I believe I saw thread around here (can't find it now) discussing DHT v4, but for a different card. There was a mention that DHT v4 was like Dolby Headphone, but it was not producing artifacts. What artifacts does Dolby Headphone produce? Is it the echo I was talking about earlier? This leads me to the most important questions:
- Does either DHT v4 or DAA v2 produce surround sound without any echo or with only a tiny amount of echo?
- How does DHT v4 and DAA v2 compare to SBX Pro? I recall seeing somewhere that SBX Pro/Surround is just a re-branded THX TruStudio Pro!!! Is that true? Does anyone have any experience with THX TruStudio Pro/Surround? How does it compare to Dolby Headphone?
I would appreciate feedback from those who actually tested these technologies and know about the Dolby Headphone's annoying echo and about SBX Pro's/Surrounds' superior positional audio/sound.
Thanks a bunch for reading my post!