chicolom
Headphoneus Supremus
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Check out my laptop's audio board. Pretty impressive.
I wonder if it will drive orthodynamics...
Did you let the battery on the E11 full charge?
Try set the voltage switch to high, it's located under the battery.
Lol, thinking the E11 is actually giving enough power to the Q701. Try harder. The Q701 needs STRONG desktop amps to truly shine. They work fine with little amps, but big amps are where its at for the AKGs. Head-fi has mentioned it countless times.
The only time the E11 should be sufficient is when hooking it up to the Mixamp for gaming. For music and non gaming, you will want amps usually in the $250+ range.
I just double checked, the voltage is set to high.
I tried the combination of the Mix Amp as well for gaming as well The reason I got the e11 was to see if an amp actually improved the SQ of the Q701s, to a noticable degree, before I tried to jump into the more expensive ( and harder to return ) amp category.
$250+ though? Damn. The O2 is only $150, and the E9 is $100 - so neither of those will be good enough either?
Did you check my thread?
If you're going to use both speakers and headphones...are we talking stereo speakers, or surround speakers? If it's the latter, things just got much more complicated since the higher-end sound cards tend not to bother with more than two analog channels.
That's a lot of information that I can't wrap my mind around, and there doesn't seem to be a comparison of the technologies. I currently do not have surround sound, but I intend to in the future. I will be using my B&W 685s and ASW610 with my AVR3312 for now when gaming on the television, and I also have AudioEngine A5+ (and D1 DAC) that I would like to use for gaming. I do not yet have a nice pair of headphones, but I anticipate using headphones just as much as my current setup. In the future, if I want surround sound, would I just use the build in DAC of the receiver through HDMI? (if graphics cards output audio though HDMI, which I do not yet know). I really don't quite know the questions to ask. I just know that audio is very important to me and that I am willing to change my setup to accompany more immersive sound.
I like the idea of running HDMI from the graphics card to the receiver.
HDMI can carry full Blu-ray 7.1 Audio, so 5.1 gaming audio is easy for HDMI.
The one drawback is the Denon 3312 receiver may not support Dolby Virtual Headphone for true headphone surround sound.
The Denon has Dolby Headphone, but that might be Dolby Pro logic only.
If you added an Asus Xonar DX or D1 to your computer, you could run optical from the Xonar to the Denon.
Then you would have Dolby Virtual Headphone 5.1 for when you plug the headphones into the Denon receiver.
But still use the HDMI of any time your not using headphones.
The Denon 3312 receiver's headphone jack might have a high impedance, which is not the best for low Ohm headphones.
I would think the Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro 250-Ohm would be a good choice for headphones.
That's a lot of information that I can't wrap my mind around, and there doesn't seem to be a comparison of the technologies. I currently do not have surround sound, but I intend to in the future. I will be using my B&W 685s and ASW610 with my AVR3312 for now when gaming on the television, and I also have AudioEngine A5+ (and D1 DAC) that I would like to use for gaming. I do not yet have a nice pair of headphones, but I anticipate using headphones just as much as my current setup. In the future, if I want surround sound, would I just use the build in DAC of the receiver through HDMI? (if graphics cards output audio though HDMI, which I do not yet know). I really don't quite know the questions to ask. I just know that audio is very important to me and that I am willing to change my setup to accompany more immersive sound.
I don't want to limit myself to the best headphone for the AVR. I will be using the computer in two locations, and I may find that I prefer the A5+ and headphone solution more accommodating to my needs.
Also, if I ran optical from the Xonar to the Denon, wouldn't relying the DAC in the Denon keep me from achieving Dolby Virtual Surround 5.1?
Anyways, I am so far out of the loop. What is the difference between Dolby Headphone and Dolby Virtual Surround and all the other crazy headphone DSPs? I basically want to know what is commonly accepted as the best method to experience immersive audio for gaming.
Sooo... I feel like the priority is for headphones because if I want to use surround sound, I can use a receiver. Does using a stereo speaker setup work similarly to headphones? Am I right in thinking that surround sound processing should be left to devices besides the computer?