Random Accessories Thread

[Zed Clampet]

All of my peripherals/accessories claimed that they needed to be connected directly to the computer as opposed to a USB hub. For some reason, I bought into that, and it created an absolute cable nightmare because I have my monitor, keyboard, DAC, controllers, mouse, half keyboard all on a lapdesk that I move around as necessary.

Yesterday, after spending time unraveling my mess of cables again, I decided to ignore them and connect everything to a powered USB hub that I attached to the lapdesk. It is working out so much better, and I haven't noticed any problems.

 

[Colif]

Occasionally my mouse or keyboard will disconnect randomly. Its not often enough to make me move them both onto PC as it is too far from where I sit. Are we meant to use extension cables instead?

or use wireless receiver plugged directly into PC and hope its range its good enough.
I mainly have my kb plugged in as its wireless transmitter range is too short.

 

[Zed Clampet]

or use wireless/Bluetooth and hope the receiver has a long enough range to reach to PC - then you run into possible latency problems

This is one of the reasons I don't use wireless headphones. I had some that connected by bluetooth and the sounds always lagged behind what I was seeing on screen. It was probably just a problem with that particular headset, but between that problem and wanting to use a DAC, I haven't bought wireless since.

 

[Colif]

its a blue tooth thing, I get the same if I use my Wiim streamer as the output for my PC via Bluetooth. Its the main reason I prefer wired speakers on my PC. I would also get it if I attached my Focal Headphones to my PC and played a game.

Bluetooth latency doesn't matter if its only music. hence some dongles can be bluetooth and stream from your phone.

wireless headphones get mixed up with bluetooth ones. Its hard to know what latency they have. Gaming headsets tend to have USB Dongles to speed up communication with consoles/PC whereas ANC headphones don't.

I don't use wireless headphones as the quality of the music they can provide is lower than wired. Even if I do have a pair of Focal wireless headphones, I rarely use them. If I could redo one purchase it would be them... they good headphones, I just never use them.