demuli
New Head-Fier
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Setup:
Sennheiser HD-600 headphones
Yamaha RX-v673 / RX-V620RDS av receiver
AMD 7950 GPU / Onboard realtek / X-Fi titanium sound card
550W Corsair PSU
Windows 8
Foobar2000 w/ WASAPI
Currently getting the best sound by connecting headphones directly to the sound card rather than the receivers. Maxing bass from creative drivers and EQ'ing bass up from foobar. Any other combination results in less bass and less clarity. I have no idea why. The newer receiver, the 673, through HDMI sounds good and clear in certain games and has nice surround sound, but again completely lacks in bass in Dota 2 for instance. The receiver doesn't let me up the bass too much. If I use pure direct mode, it sounds like a C-cassette (like everything else if I don't pretty much max out the bass). In Black Ops 2 the sounds are good through HDMI, however. Music lacks bass, however. Movies sound the best out of any other combination, though.
My older receiver has more bass settings to fiddle with and generally sounds better in games. I still need to EQ the sound with drivers or Razer's headphone surround program (definitely doesn't improve sound quality), but atleast I can get some bass out that way. To use Dota 2 as an example, if you have a tower destroyed and there's hundreds of tons of stone coming down, it needs to rumble, not crack like a tree branch.
Playstation 3 sounds good through HDMI, or optical for my old receiver for that matter. Makes me think I need a new sound card. Can someone offer me help on how to set this thing up? Should I take the 673 back and get a Asus STX sound card with a headphone amp? What is the problem with the PC being so shy with the bass? Oh yeah, and my budget is about 200€, so don't tell me about 1000$ amps. I expect a ride to the moon with that kind of money.
Sennheiser HD-600 headphones
Yamaha RX-v673 / RX-V620RDS av receiver
AMD 7950 GPU / Onboard realtek / X-Fi titanium sound card
550W Corsair PSU
Windows 8
Foobar2000 w/ WASAPI
Currently getting the best sound by connecting headphones directly to the sound card rather than the receivers. Maxing bass from creative drivers and EQ'ing bass up from foobar. Any other combination results in less bass and less clarity. I have no idea why. The newer receiver, the 673, through HDMI sounds good and clear in certain games and has nice surround sound, but again completely lacks in bass in Dota 2 for instance. The receiver doesn't let me up the bass too much. If I use pure direct mode, it sounds like a C-cassette (like everything else if I don't pretty much max out the bass). In Black Ops 2 the sounds are good through HDMI, however. Music lacks bass, however. Movies sound the best out of any other combination, though.
My older receiver has more bass settings to fiddle with and generally sounds better in games. I still need to EQ the sound with drivers or Razer's headphone surround program (definitely doesn't improve sound quality), but atleast I can get some bass out that way. To use Dota 2 as an example, if you have a tower destroyed and there's hundreds of tons of stone coming down, it needs to rumble, not crack like a tree branch.
Playstation 3 sounds good through HDMI, or optical for my old receiver for that matter. Makes me think I need a new sound card. Can someone offer me help on how to set this thing up? Should I take the 673 back and get a Asus STX sound card with a headphone amp? What is the problem with the PC being so shy with the bass? Oh yeah, and my budget is about 200€, so don't tell me about 1000$ amps. I expect a ride to the moon with that kind of money.