PurpleAngel
Headphoneus Supremus
LME49990NA, anyone try these in their Essence STX or ST?
So my X-Fi Forte died and I had it over 2 years so warranty is up and I would have to pay to get it fixed so not even going to bother with that. And I was looking for sound card to get and lots of people recommend this card. I do a lot of gaming and watching movies on my pc and was wondering how this card is with gaming and movies.
I use HD-555 with Zalman Mic for ventrilo etc, anyone have any problems at all while gaming, I mostly play Skyrim, BF3, Saints Row 3 etc basically all newer games and TF2 and CSS.
I also saw Creative came out with new sound cards as well so I am not sure what to do. Going to continue reading through this thread.
It appears the Titanium HD is a better sound card then the new Recon3D (PCI-Express).
But gaming wise?
Still to early to tell if the new Recon3D is a better gaming card, wish there were more reviews on it.
Yeah basically no reviews really on that card. So it's either this Asus card or Creative card but all I hear is creative drivers suck lol.
I know creative card would be better buy but I went from Xtremegamer to X-Fi Forte cause my xtremegamer would snap crackle and pop all the time. Forte was working amazing until it died. And I will be getting better headphones soon so I would most likely need an amp so I just don't know what to do lol :X
Titanium HD is $150 and Asus would be $170 ugh not sure what to do
The Titanium HD does not come with a dedicated headphone amplifier, but seems to do a good job powering headphones with out one.
Also you can hook up an external headphone amplifier and still use all the surround sound stuff.
What headphones were you looking at?
Sometimes the Titanium HD goes on sale with a mail in rebate, final price gets down to $100.
Essence STX for the HD650, Titanium HD for the HD598, provided the Titanium HD has low output impedance.
If you don't know which headphone you want next, you may want to play it safe and get the Essence STX. It will drive any headphone you're looking at with ease, and while its output impedance is objectionable, it will only be a problem with very low impedance headphones or ones with wild impedance curves like the HD598/HD555.
I wish I knew exactly how powerful the Titanium HD is, and what its specs really looked like.
Yeah I think I will get the Essence STX and if anything I could always return it for Titanium HD. Thanks going to order it now
Ordered from Newegg should come Wednesday