- Aug 27, 2013
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Not sure where to post this so thought this was the best place.
Years ago I bought the astro a40 and mixamp for my laptop, the soundcard on the laptop sucked and I used it as an external soundcard for gaming when travelling.
Anyway, i don't travel much anymore and my main PC at home has a creative titanium HD soundcard. When gaming I am not sure what is the best way to set up my headset. Should I use the mixamp?
Creative has their own proprietary cmss-3d software for headphone surround sound, I could just plug the a40 headset direct into the card via the 3.5mm Jacks and use that.
Although I've been experimenting with my spare astro mixamp that I have. I plugged it into the titanium HD optical out and turned on Dolby Digital encoding as the mixamp can decode it. It now sends a Dolby digital signal via optical to my mixamp which works.
Question is, am I losing quality by using the optical out with Dolby instead of 3.5mm Jacks using cmss-3d? Or am I going to receive better quality surround sound when gaming turning on Dolby digital and using the optical out?
Years ago I bought the astro a40 and mixamp for my laptop, the soundcard on the laptop sucked and I used it as an external soundcard for gaming when travelling.
Anyway, i don't travel much anymore and my main PC at home has a creative titanium HD soundcard. When gaming I am not sure what is the best way to set up my headset. Should I use the mixamp?
Creative has their own proprietary cmss-3d software for headphone surround sound, I could just plug the a40 headset direct into the card via the 3.5mm Jacks and use that.
Although I've been experimenting with my spare astro mixamp that I have. I plugged it into the titanium HD optical out and turned on Dolby Digital encoding as the mixamp can decode it. It now sends a Dolby digital signal via optical to my mixamp which works.
Question is, am I losing quality by using the optical out with Dolby instead of 3.5mm Jacks using cmss-3d? Or am I going to receive better quality surround sound when gaming turning on Dolby digital and using the optical out?
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