Monitor PC mic input via headphones without latancy

[Valorum]

This isn't exactly a highbrow audiophile inquiry, but I'm facing a problem while talking online via VoIP.

My closed-back headphones end up blocking enough sound that I can't readily hear my voice over what's playing through the headphones, which I don't like. The only option I've found so far is enabling "listen to device" in Windows input devices, which plays the mic input through the headphones, but there's a good 0.5+ second lag, which really messes me up.

Is there an easy remedy to this?

 

[RayDunzl]

Is there an easy remedy to this?

I put my fingers in my ears, and put my hands over my ears, and seemed to hear myself even better in both cases than nude.

Maybe turn down whatever to which you are listening in the phones, until you and they are more balanced? (blasphemous, I know...)

 

[Valorum]

Hah, okay, I should have specified, "is there an easy way to get the mic input to play in the headphones without [noticeable] latency?"

 

[Dimitri]

-Use a headset more "suited" to VOIP
-Use a microphone with a "monitor out" and when you get on a call, unplug your headset from the PC and plug it into the "monitor out" of the microphone.

 

[amirm]

Is there an easy remedy to this?

Gaming headphone/DAC/ADC/amps do this. Just watched this with the dirt cheap Syba Sonic one:

 

[Valorum]

Excellent, thank you. I will read about this.