I have bf4 for pc. It does not have a headphone surround mode built-in that I could find.
Might be just a console thing? But why go to the trouble and expense to create a feature, then strip it from a PC version? Double check!
I have bf4 for pc. It does not have a headphone surround mode built-in that I could find.
What you guys think. Mint condition HD700 for $350! How are those for gaming anyways? Thanks!
Might be just a console thing? But why go to the trouble and expense to create a feature, then strip it from a PC version? Double check!
Might be just a console thing? But why go to the trouble and expense to create a feature, then strip it from a PC version? Double check!
great Thx for answering. I saw it for sell but was debating on each one I should buy. Fostex TH600 or that for music and gaming!Oh I liked 'em, and that's a good price. You get that thicker HD6xx sound in the mids without the veil, less brightness (and detail) than the HD800 (though still some people really notice a treble spike, I personally got used to it quickly compared to the Beyerdynamic spike which bothered my ears more and more). Decent soundstage, but not as good as AKG if both are amped with quality.
It's not a baby HD800, it's something different in sonic character yet shares some awesome styling from the flagship (looks cooler imo).
idk, some type of licencing issue? How strong is the evidence that it exists on the console version? I found on pc, the speaker config controlled 2.0 vs 4.1 output, and speaker type controlled equalizer and dynamic range compressor ( also evidenced in this dice slide http://i.imgur.com/gydJNq7.jpg ). When I checked headphone + surround, I noticed 4.1 was still being output by the game, which indicates no special headphone surround mode in the game. I also checked with headphone+surround+dolby headphone and noticed no echoes characteristic of double headphone virtualization. The game sounded pretty similar on home cinema, hifi, and headphone.
For BF4, the names changed. However, if you set it to headphones and surround, it has the same channel crosstalk the previous game had. DICE has never come out and explain what the audio-settings did, and the popular consensus that makes the most sense is that enhanced stereo was added into headphones setting. Otherwise, it would be irrelevant next to HiFi (meant for two speakers) and Cinema (meant for more than one) as it would have no characteristics the other two didn't have already.
It seems the home cinema setting is maximum dynamic range with no EQ, and all the other settings differ by having less dynamic range or an EQ applied. This description was made in an interview: "For each of these settings, we define a window of dynamic range in dB, (which is smaller for TV speakers than home cinema), a compression setting (TV is mildly compressed, home cinema is not), and a master EQ setting (TV has bass cut and a high boost, home cinema has no master EQ applied.)" from http://www.waves.com/ben-minto-on-game-sound-design.
So speaker type affects equalizer and dynamics, and speaker config effects 2.0 vs 4.1 output, and those are the only changes you can make afaik.
So I was two-thirds right on those settings. However, the headphone setting has been understood as "Enhanced Stereo + Headphone" from BF3. If you switch it to the 4.1 setting, you'd be sending the surround into the mixamp. If you set up the stereo setting with headphone, you'll get their enhanced stereo setting that has channel crosstalk that BF3 had. That is the experience I had on the console, anyway, and it shouldn't be any different from the PC release (which I have switched to earlier in the year.)
So I was two-thirds right on those settings. However, the headphone setting has been understood as "Enhanced Stereo + Headphone" from BF3. If you switch it to the 4.1 setting, you'd be sending the surround into the mixamp. If you set up the stereo setting with headphone, you'll get their enhanced stereo setting that has channel crosstalk that BF3 had. That is the experience I had on the console, anyway, and it shouldn't be any different from the PC release (which I have switched to earlier in the year.)
I'm not really sure what enhanced stereo was. I've found different people independently saying it made gun shots louder, so it makes me think it was also a dynamic range setting of some type. I've also seen it described as crossfeed or as virtual surround. I did play a round today with headphone+surround+dolby headphone and home cinema+surround+dolby headphone, with the windows mixer at 5.1 both times, and found the experiences very similar. If the headphone setting was going for a unique sound, I wasn't picking up on it.
I was asking in general but Mostly about the Shell/Cup wood from TH900 would fit on the TH600?The drivers are different. With different magnetic resistances. Not sure what swapping would do.