Okay?
I feel attacked, I'm a 28 yo playing 4x on my own and a I dislike gamer market stuff.
I was speaking from personal experience as a 42-year-old still playing Civ V and Heroes of Might & Magic III.
Wouldn't know about "best buy" as I don't live in trumpland, but single player games are actually pretty huge, thing is they don't need that kind of cheap, tacky, glitzy stuff. Doesn't mean they don't want quality audio hardware, quality controllers, screens and chairs, just not with chintz, oh, and no need for a microphone.
Typically the RCA output has a 100 ohm series resistor. That makes it unsuitable for using it as headphone out. But allows it to not get damaged if you short it out and such.
It's a real shame that Creative just sat on the Aureal IP they bought and eventually killed it off.
I was wondering why positional audio seemed to sort of die off in games. In the past I deemed it essential to have that and 5.1 speakers for full situational awareness in competitive first person games and then games stopped having those 3d sound options and my creative sound card and it's 3d sound drivers seemed to no longer be supported plus my 5.1 speaker system died so I've been on 2.0 for a few years now. For a while I looked for a suitable sound card and multi channel amp to create a new 5.1 system but the options weren't great for me while not being sure if games even do full positional audio any more.It's a real shame that Creative just sat on the Aureal IP they bought and eventually killed it off.
That tech was way ahead of its time and we've only now caught up in the last handful of years.
I remember playing Unreal Tournament 2004 with hardware-accelerated 3D audio for the first time and it felt like I had an unfair advantage being able to pinpoint enemies through walls
Would be interesting to see what immersive game audio would be like now if Aureal kept working on it.
My guess is the lack of reply means this HPA is not suitable for those headphones.
Some games have fantastic 3D positional audio, Battlefield 1 is one of them. If you have a DAC that can be seen by the OS as a 7.1 channel audio device then it will actually output to your DAC on all those channels for positional audio. For different games it's important to know if the game is either outputting to the DAC at 7.1 or if the game is instead doing all it's own virtual surround processing within the game engine itself, which in the latter case you would flip your gaming DAC to straight up 2 channel mode and let the game do all the virtual surround processing....so it's important to know how the game creates & handles multichannel.
What would you say is currently the best game agnostic virtual surround sound solution? Atmos?
Some say Atmos (now repackaged as part of Dolby Access), others say DTS (both have software downloads accessible via the Microsoft Store on Windows 11).
