Headphone random conversation

[Zed Clampet]

I haven't used it on my PC I know at one stage almost every output on my PC was steelseries but right now its now showing at all. Just my monitor that doesn't have a speaker, and my speakers.
I knew I had a screenshot

overkill. And yet its nowhere to be seen now.

What I've learned over the last two days is that Windows sound settings are a mess.

 

[Colif]

What I've learned over the last two days is that Windows sound settings are a mess.

I have known that for years now, its why I don't play with my sound drivers. They can be a pain to get right. I don't even bother updating them, if they work already you can break things.

 

[Colif]

It still exists, you just need to know where to look. But if you want speakers, it does get expensive to get good ones.

Soundbars can be good, if you have a reasonable one and link it to a sub or two. Surround systems can be expensive too but price doesn't mean quality.

I am sure there is plenty of snake oil salesmen in the Audio Visual space, plenty of eager buyers who don't know anything.

Bluetooth was sold as the easy alternative but the drawbacks were never mentioned before suddenly everyone has crappy Bluetooth speakers that sound like phone speakers, muddy as hell.

Even I have one and I expect it sounds exactly like it looks

brothers joke Xmas present one year. I never used it.

Wired music is better until BT is actually lossless and doesn't include a mode that swaps back to lossy if the bandwidth isn't high enough. Pass.

 

[TimGarcia1991]

Audio Technica ATH M50X $130.99 on Ebay. Before that I used a Turtle Beach Earforce PLa.

 

[Colif]

I have known that for years now, its why I don't play with my sound drivers. They can be a pain to get right. I don't even bother updating them, if they work already you can break things.

So far I have ignored them completely on my new PC. Sound is looked after by beaming it to Wiim ultra via Bluetooth. How long my ears can cope with headphones is questionable.
even if they are Hifiman Arya... I hear things in videos I prefer not to... plosives. peoples mouth too close to microphones. You don't hear them over speakers. Well, my cheap ones anyway. Funny, these headphones are twice the value of my speakers... it shows.

Might buy a toslink cable and see if I can get digital sound out of PC into speakers. Instructions show it should work... I thought I had the right cable but its not.
If that doesn't work, long term is a pair of Adam speakers I guess. I haven't seriously looked as PC was main purchase this year... sound might have a come back soon.