Siigari
New Head-Fier
Hey everybody! I'm new here. I'm totally happy to be a part of your group, and as such I just want to dig into the nitty gritty right at the start!
Some short background, I've been a DJ for close to fifteen years, and have been doing audio engineering for about half that, six to seven years. I also help out at my local church with some equipment suggestions/advice but I'm not sure I want to step anywhere near their boards/equipment! To be fair, they really have a great setup and I might help em out but anyway.
Oh, I'm also a streamer at https://www.twitch.tv/siigari. I'll be using my headphones daily, so be sure to come say hey!
Today I just purchased some Focal Utopia headphones brand new. They're on the way and should be here in a couple of weeks (yey shipping.) I also ordered a Gungnir Multibit and a Mjolnir 2.
Alright, that's all out of the way. Now enter my issues: PC coil whine. My coil whine is about 14-16 dB above the noise floor (-60) and it is most noticeable while gaming, where it screams up by another 10 dB.
I'm running a Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card, running unbal RCA into my Mackie 8-channel USB mixer via TS. So we're running fully unbal from that source. My DJ equipment is balanced in (XLR/TRS), my mic is XLR-> XLR Audient id22, then out TRS->TRS FMR RNC (compressor) then TRS->Insert TRS and finally audio out is balanced XLR to monitors. Headphones are TRS out to tiny nobsound NS-08E headphone amp (it's cute!) and then out to my cans via mini TRS.
My video card is an EVGA 1080 Ti, and my power supply is an EVGA 1500W Classified PSU (Gold+ rated, had it from back in my folding days.)
Alright. Setup out of the way. So I've got coil whine from something. I'd like to isolate and remove it.
Some people have suggested I use an optical USB cable hooked into a powered USB hub, then plug my Gungnir into it via USB?
I'm not sure. I just want balanced outs from my PC so I have a clean, crisp audio experience.
Thanks so much, and I look forward to speaking with you guys more!
Here are some pictures of my setup.
Some short background, I've been a DJ for close to fifteen years, and have been doing audio engineering for about half that, six to seven years. I also help out at my local church with some equipment suggestions/advice but I'm not sure I want to step anywhere near their boards/equipment! To be fair, they really have a great setup and I might help em out but anyway.
Oh, I'm also a streamer at https://www.twitch.tv/siigari. I'll be using my headphones daily, so be sure to come say hey!
Today I just purchased some Focal Utopia headphones brand new. They're on the way and should be here in a couple of weeks (yey shipping.) I also ordered a Gungnir Multibit and a Mjolnir 2.
Alright, that's all out of the way. Now enter my issues: PC coil whine. My coil whine is about 14-16 dB above the noise floor (-60) and it is most noticeable while gaming, where it screams up by another 10 dB.
I'm running a Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card, running unbal RCA into my Mackie 8-channel USB mixer via TS. So we're running fully unbal from that source. My DJ equipment is balanced in (XLR/TRS), my mic is XLR-> XLR Audient id22, then out TRS->TRS FMR RNC (compressor) then TRS->Insert TRS and finally audio out is balanced XLR to monitors. Headphones are TRS out to tiny nobsound NS-08E headphone amp (it's cute!) and then out to my cans via mini TRS.
My video card is an EVGA 1080 Ti, and my power supply is an EVGA 1500W Classified PSU (Gold+ rated, had it from back in my folding days.)
Alright. Setup out of the way. So I've got coil whine from something. I'd like to isolate and remove it.
Some people have suggested I use an optical USB cable hooked into a powered USB hub, then plug my Gungnir into it via USB?
I'm not sure. I just want balanced outs from my PC so I have a clean, crisp audio experience.
Thanks so much, and I look forward to speaking with you guys more!
Here are some pictures of my setup.
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