Asterra
New Head-Fier
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I just got my hands on a pretty nice subwoofer, and I plan to make use of it. For the sake of gaming, I still basically only use headphones, but can definitely see the advantages of having bass that one can feel in addition to hear. Same deal for movies.
Little did I know that this was going to turn into a major ordeal.
I thought I had two choices: Use the line-out from the Xonar Essence ST in tandem with the powered headphone output (not ideal since it would simply pass everything, rather than, say, the audio specifically intended as LFE), or use the onboard (Realtek) audio's LFE channel. Apparently, neither will work. This far from cheap soundcard can apparently only handle one output at a time, even though the second output is just a line-out. And most bizarre of all, if I enable the Realtek output in any capacity whatsoever, the Xonar Essence ST's audio ceases.
Since this is utter BS, I'm pretty hopeful that someone has a suggestion. And no, using the Realtek for headphone audio is not a solution. ;p It's underpowered and suffers from considerable noise bleeding; I paid $200 for a soundcard specifically to circumvent those issues.
Little did I know that this was going to turn into a major ordeal.
I thought I had two choices: Use the line-out from the Xonar Essence ST in tandem with the powered headphone output (not ideal since it would simply pass everything, rather than, say, the audio specifically intended as LFE), or use the onboard (Realtek) audio's LFE channel. Apparently, neither will work. This far from cheap soundcard can apparently only handle one output at a time, even though the second output is just a line-out. And most bizarre of all, if I enable the Realtek output in any capacity whatsoever, the Xonar Essence ST's audio ceases.
Since this is utter BS, I'm pretty hopeful that someone has a suggestion. And no, using the Realtek for headphone audio is not a solution. ;p It's underpowered and suffers from considerable noise bleeding; I paid $200 for a soundcard specifically to circumvent those issues.