Thurso
New Head-Fier
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Was hoping someone here could shed some light on a problem I'm having. I'm a noob when it comes to anything audio related. I bought the x-fi titanium HD a bit ago. http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Blaster-Titanium-Internal-SB1270/dp/B0041OUA38/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353881322&sr=8-1&keywords=x-fi+titanium+hd
I've been really happy with it sound really good on my crappy headset. I read that it was a good card for headphones which is what I use virtually all the time for music / gaming.
I wanted to get a good headset to go along with the card and read up on different ones I saw that the Sennheiser HD 598's got really good reviews and people raved about the sound.http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-598-Headphones-Accents/dp/B0042A8CW2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353881327&sr=8-2&keywords=hd+595
I also read that my soundcard doesn't have a headphone amp so I've been messing around with an amp that my father gave me called the sansui 2000x he owned it in the 70s and it is still is really good condition.
The problem is my crappy headphones don't sound that great on the amp, sure everything is a little more vibrant and loud but the quality sounds decreased. I figured it would sound amazing with the new headphones. That was until I got them... They sound better than the headphones I have a little bit in terms of quality... but the treb sounds really muddy when I turn it up with the 598s.. I'm amazed they sound this bad after all of the awesome reviews I've been reading and got to thinking could it be something with the amp that I'm using? I have it going into the headphone jack in the sound card to a red and white RCA in the back of the amp. Could that be messing with some of the quality coming from the soundcard that maybe the amp isn't meant to handle?
I tried hooking these headphones into my ipod to see if it was specific to my computer but they sound the same on my ipod yet when I put them into my amp on my computer they sound even worse than hooked up to an ipod. I guess I just don't like the sound of them.
I've always heard that using an Amp is better than not using one but with my new and old headset they sound worse with this amp vs straight into the soundcard.
I'd welcome any help, since I'm clueless.. I really appreciate it thanks a ton.
I've been really happy with it sound really good on my crappy headset. I read that it was a good card for headphones which is what I use virtually all the time for music / gaming.
I wanted to get a good headset to go along with the card and read up on different ones I saw that the Sennheiser HD 598's got really good reviews and people raved about the sound.http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-598-Headphones-Accents/dp/B0042A8CW2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353881327&sr=8-2&keywords=hd+595
I also read that my soundcard doesn't have a headphone amp so I've been messing around with an amp that my father gave me called the sansui 2000x he owned it in the 70s and it is still is really good condition.
The problem is my crappy headphones don't sound that great on the amp, sure everything is a little more vibrant and loud but the quality sounds decreased. I figured it would sound amazing with the new headphones. That was until I got them... They sound better than the headphones I have a little bit in terms of quality... but the treb sounds really muddy when I turn it up with the 598s.. I'm amazed they sound this bad after all of the awesome reviews I've been reading and got to thinking could it be something with the amp that I'm using? I have it going into the headphone jack in the sound card to a red and white RCA in the back of the amp. Could that be messing with some of the quality coming from the soundcard that maybe the amp isn't meant to handle?
I tried hooking these headphones into my ipod to see if it was specific to my computer but they sound the same on my ipod yet when I put them into my amp on my computer they sound even worse than hooked up to an ipod. I guess I just don't like the sound of them.
I've always heard that using an Amp is better than not using one but with my new and old headset they sound worse with this amp vs straight into the soundcard.
I'd welcome any help, since I'm clueless.. I really appreciate it thanks a ton.