My theory is the reason why it setup like it is, because they see the only people who uses the DSP with headphones, are those who are going to game, which why the only option to do it is with the Headphone (vr 7.1) option, which also make it apparently is the option to route it thru line out. The only way around this to use stereo is to use either Stereo or Direct Stereo as an speaker output setting. While it does give you the option to send it thru the line out, it's only for the Headphone VR 7.1 DSP output.
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(Looks like Creative updated AE-5 drivers five days ago?) It would be nice if Creative would fix their crap. Or alternatively dac&headphone amp all in one with TOSLINK in. So as it stands it looks like external headphone amp would give the best flexibility. AE-5 seems to support headphone mix through the line out too. I quite often use the smart volume setting when watching youtube or tv shows and it works really well. Annoyingly, it's impossible to output headphone mix through the line out (it might go out through SPDIF).ĪE-5 supports untouched stereo through the headphones but for some reason they forgot that someone might, just might want to use pure stereo but with DSP (like the built in EQ and smart volume). So, I'm not sure it sounds right that way (HD 595 do not need amping though - I use them through line out). I'm not sure if it's just the amp quality or what but if I set it back to 2.0 the sounds stage seems narrower than through the line out. The problem is that for some stupid reason the headphone out forces Windows speaker setup to 5.1 and that already kills the pure audio quality. I plan to get HD 700 soon and it might not work well through the Zx's line out (it might though.) and I wonder about getting external amp. The 32bits+ in this case are used for higher resolution internal processing which results in less aliasing, handy when changing volume level digitallyĬhances are the extra bits in your recording will be padded with zeros.
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There are 32bit internal DACs and some that can output 32bit as well.Īlso software that can handle 32bit or 64bits. We are not there yet which is why there is no 32bit media and no plan for it.
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Cheap equipment tends to have an output around 110dB, good equipment (start of decent high end) around 120dB and the best equipment is around 130dB, not close to besting 24bits.Īlthough the s/n ratio doesnt determine whether you will like the sound so you need to make sure of that.ģ2bit recording needs a noise floor of near -192dB to make full use and 140dB+ approx to make any use. You can still get a benefit just under the noise floor but we are not able to make use of 24bit in full.Įach bit needs -6.02dB signal to noise ratio range to be fully heard (assuming your ears can do it as well), these can be added up to give an easy result.Ģ4 bits has a noise floor of around -144dB. Most DACs you buy cannot deliver 24bit because the lowest end bits get lost in the noise floor.
There is little point recording in 32bit btw, it will waste space.