mcegan
New Head-Fier
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I have a Xonar essence and I love the hell out of it for music, but one thing that irks me about it is no SPDIF input, only output. I regularly play games on my Xbox360, but I'm using the line input on it right now. If I set it to HiFi mode, this is still pretty good...I get all the little nuances usually. But there's no surround. If I use Dolby headphone + Prologic II, I get the surround effect, but the sound is kind of echo'ey and a lot of details are lost it seems.
Now I always see people go on and on about how great optical is for gaming sound, but of course these are from people that have no clue about how audio should sound (haha, im probably one of them, since I'm asking this). Now I'm not really sure how much better optical would make the sound (without DH/ProLogic) since it already sounds pretty great. Would it make any difference with the surround sound effect? Obviously this is still just "fake" surround given it's just a headphone but what kind of a difference would it really make? Would it sound "clear" and not echo'ey? Is optical just a bunch of fluff or something more?
Now I always see people go on and on about how great optical is for gaming sound, but of course these are from people that have no clue about how audio should sound (haha, im probably one of them, since I'm asking this). Now I'm not really sure how much better optical would make the sound (without DH/ProLogic) since it already sounds pretty great. Would it make any difference with the surround sound effect? Obviously this is still just "fake" surround given it's just a headphone but what kind of a difference would it really make? Would it sound "clear" and not echo'ey? Is optical just a bunch of fluff or something more?