Gaming on Pioneer SEDIR800C's (Noob)

[Rogueblowtorch]

Hi all,

Stumbled upon this forum and have been lurking for a little while, lots of great information. I'm looking for a decent pair of wireless surround phones for around $250, from what I see the Pioneer SEDIR800C's are well-liked by their owners while a number of similarly priced wireless phones fall short of expectations. I want to use them for gaming primarily, and I'm wondering what the best input to use would be, and whether I would need a separate sound card should the motherboard's inputs be inadequate. I'm using this link for information on the transmitter's inputs:

http://www.onecall.com/ProductDispla...=1121#FID_1797

(I know I can get it much cheaper, this link just had the most information)

My motherboard has 7.1 channel sound on a separate detachable riser card with the pack of multicolored 3.5mm inputs (yuck I hate being noob). It also has SPDIF in and out in red and yellow respectively. From the link I read that the transmitter for the headphones has Optical Digital, Coaxial Digital, and Analog Line In. What's the best connection to use for my purpose and why? Also, would buying a separate Audigy Pro 2 ZS soundcard be a better idea?

Thanks for the help!

 

[sgrossklass]

You could connect the S/PDIF out (electrical, I guess?) to the matching digital input (would then be coaxial, needs an adapter cable from 3.5 mm mono to RCA) on the headphone base station.

 

[Rogueblowtorch]

Thanks for the response, would I still have full surround sound by just using the SPDIF port? I was under the impression that I needed something that would combine inputs from 3 of the 3.5mm ports (for 5.1 surround).

 

[sgrossklass]

Good point. The digital input would probably mainly be interesting for AC3/DTS then, with analog outputs on the comp being needed for "normal" multichannel sound. You can try your onboard sound (remember muting all the unused inputs), if you shouldn't be satisfied with that head over to the Computers as Sauce, err, Source forum and consider the usual suspects in multichannel cards (Revo 5.1, Prodigy 7.1LT, Aureon Sky/Space, possibly Fortissimo IV and whatnot).

 

[Helter Skelter]

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Originally Posted by Rogueblowtorch Thanks for the response, would I still have full surround sound by just using the SPDIF port? I was under the impression that I needed something that would combine inputs from 3 of the 3.5mm ports (for 5.1 surround).

No you would not. Almost no consumer soundcards have the capability to encode Dolby Digital or DTS (which is of course what you want if you're going to be using Dolby Headphone for gaming). The exceptions include be the onboard sound of certain nForce2 motherboards utilizing nVidia's Soundstorm chip, and sound cards utilizing the C-Media CMI8768+ chip, like the Turtle Beach Montego DDL.

You probably want the Turtle beach card, since if your source can't output a DTS or DD5.1 signal, you're stuck using Dolby Pro Logic, and that's not really surround.

As for the SE-DIR800C, it's a great little unit. I use it with the aforementioned Soundstorm and quite like it. The included wireless headphones aren't incredibly great for music, but for games and movies they're excellent.