WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
So after reading into headphones and that they have better SQ than headsets etc I decided to get me some good headphones
And seeing as an onboard soundcard is probably not enough, I bought a dedicated soundcard as well.
- Superlux HD 668B, with velour pads (Velour is AWSUM! )
- Asus Xonar DGX
They sound good, and def better than my headset. Still have to fiddle with settings on my soundcard to get the most out of them in BF3 for instance and I still have to burn the headphones in.
From my experience with Xonar cards you pretty much have to customize the EQ to get the most out of it, in my case the "valley" curve since I play a lot of metal/electronic. Left at default (flat) settings my STX sounds like shit, extremely dull and muddy.
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
My experience is that that was rather the case of my (Sennheiser) headphones rather than sound card. Speakers sound amazing while flat. Headphones as well. But the cans really come to life with a lighter v/m-curve. The speakers get ruined with a curve.
I will fiddle around with the settings a bit Probably will have to make a couple of settings for music/games
Sennheisers tend to be pretty flat/laid-back by design and need a little boostie in the treble department for those seeking a slightly brighter sound. I've got mine amped slightly (32-64ohm setting) to liven things up, a little amping definitely helps even for low-impedance cans like HD558.
Can't really comment about speakers because I haven't really heard very many flat-response monitors, you're probably right about speakers not needing a curve. The closest thing I have to monitors are Microlab Solo 7c's serving as my stereo home theater speakers powered by an AudioEngine D1 - since it's a driver-free amp there is no EQ to speak of, I simply bump-up the speakers' treble knob a bit and they sound alright.
Meanwhile my PC speakers (Corsair SP2500's) seem to have been built with exploding entire houses in mind -_-
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
Picture? Not sure I remember what you have... or are you the one with the Adam Audio speakers? In that case, I hate you and hope you die so I can steal them.
No, but seriously, Adam Audio speakers are NICE. They look and sound FANTASTIC.
Never mind, just saw the pic in your sig links to your build, just some Audioengines.
You may continue living! :P
Out of curiosity, why 64GB of RAM? For my work I used some powerful PC's for video-editing with 16-24GB of high speed RAM. 16GB of RAM already felt like an overkill when working on full HD projects. So I gotta ask, what are you running that is using all that RAM?
I can only think of playing 2 games simultaneously that you both record while editing a full HD movie, that or you are running Norton Anti Virus.
MSI HD 7970 OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI
Intel Core i5-3570K
ASRock Z77 Pro4 Intel Z77
Samsung Green 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Corsair Obsidian Series 550D PC case
Samsung 250GB SSD
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB
Intel Core i5-3570K
6GB DDR3
ASUS HD 7850
Samsung 500GB SSD
+ X360 .
um mainly cause when i switched my mobo and cpu recently *i posted my old cpu/mobo by mistake my current is 3970x on a asus rampage iv extreme the 2600k is what is pictured*
but when i switched my cpu/mobo i upgraded my ram at same time and got a steal on 64gigs vs 32gigs both are way overkill but my whole machine is overkill
idk if you noticed but SB-E is a whole different animal that SB, about all they really have in common is overclocking procedure, makes me curious about IB-E given that it's getting almost a year and a half of extra dev time over IB, much longer than the 10 months of extra dev time between SB and SB-E
thinking about it, IB cores with HW performance and enterprise L3 and stability, along with rumors of Titan-2 and HD9970, we'll be seeing some pretty awesome setups in this thread
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze