Can anyone else confirm that it is "real" virtual surround or "made up" virtual surround? This is pretty important for gaming...
Also when talking about those audio formats, I meant to ask if Silent Cinema only works with some specific kind of surround inputs
for example:
It may be only possible to enable Silent Cinema when the sound input is DTS and not when it is a bit streamed 5.1 input or whatever other surround input is possible.
Or perhaps it is even more tricky and it is possible to always enable Silent Cinema, but it only does something with specific sorts of sound input.
You definitely put Yamaha back on my radar though. I need to buy a new AV amp anyway for my speakers and I was more thinking about Onkyo or Pioneer, but both seem to completely lack any real Headphone Surround.
In my eyes (or ears) there is a big difference between a headphone surround that uses a stereo sound as input (This is what I call "made-up". For example: CMSS-3D Surround and probably many others where it is not so clearly specified- - I suppose also Pioneers "Headphone Surround" falls in this category?) and a headphone surround that uses a surround sound as input (This is what I call "real". For example: Dolby Headphone, CMSS-3D and perhaps also Silent Cinema)
And perhaps your TV supports one of these surround techniques?
That is indeed what I heard from some people about the HD598 and why I have my doubts about this headphone.
However I am more afraid of the DT770 Pro 80 for it's "too strong" bass. As Mad Lust Envy said about them "Too bad it's too wild in bass for hardcore FPS gaming. The finer details are prety much sucked out because of the bass.". This scares me even more then a lack of bass, also for music....
Also for the DT990, I actually fear the too strong treble more then the weak bass of the HD598. A too strong treble may become uncomfortable after awhile.
But the really important question here is my question nr 2, which wasn't answered so far:
is it possible to "fix" the too weak bass from the HD598 with an equalizer (software or hardware)?
or does this have downsides / side effects?
I understand. It is just because I need to buy a AV amp for my speaker setup anyway, that I prefer finding an all-in-one solution.
However I am not even close to figuring out if that is the best (for sound quality - in gaming, movies and music - and being practical - I prefer not going through tons of setting windows when switching between speakers and headphone).
For example, I was thinking that if I let me AV amp do the headphone surround stuff, then I may not have to change any settings on my computer when switching between speakers and headphone (in both cases it will be set to 5.1 sound)