- Jan 28, 2014
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Good Morning, I will describe this problem in more detail.
I recently purchased and received a set of Tritton Pro+ 5.1 Surround Gaming Headphones with Mic. I also purchased an Asus Xonar DSX 7.1 surround sound card, (my current Mobo will not support the four jacks necessary).
My headset is now working, however, I do not believe that I am receiving true 5.1 surround, for two key reasons:
1) The audio seems a bit quiet, and the inline volume controller does not seem to allow for individual adjustment of the other speakers except the front one.
2) I am led to believe that true dolby surround is required to run off digital, whereas I am simply running through 4 x analogue audio jacks.
The setup is simple. I've fixed my Soundcard into my PCI-E x 1 slot on the m/b, and the Headset comes with a Digital to analogue adapter, but no converter (I thought I would be given a Tritton Decoder box, but evidently not!), which splits into 4 x 3.5 pins:
green
orange
silver
pink
So this is analogue input. However, I know that the sound card also has an SPDIF port, where I can plug in a Toslink (Optical) cable I have lying around. So my question is in two parts, I apologise if this is confusing:
1) By using these four audio ports (analogue) will I still get true 5.1 dolby surround?
2) If I wanted to go digital (which I do), where would I plug this cable into on my headset, I'm thinking that I would need a DAC converter (if so, how would this connect up)
I'm kind of new to audio side of things, more of a GPU man myself, so I apologise if this is badly written.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks
Volta13
I recently purchased and received a set of Tritton Pro+ 5.1 Surround Gaming Headphones with Mic. I also purchased an Asus Xonar DSX 7.1 surround sound card, (my current Mobo will not support the four jacks necessary).
My headset is now working, however, I do not believe that I am receiving true 5.1 surround, for two key reasons:
1) The audio seems a bit quiet, and the inline volume controller does not seem to allow for individual adjustment of the other speakers except the front one.
2) I am led to believe that true dolby surround is required to run off digital, whereas I am simply running through 4 x analogue audio jacks.
The setup is simple. I've fixed my Soundcard into my PCI-E x 1 slot on the m/b, and the Headset comes with a Digital to analogue adapter, but no converter (I thought I would be given a Tritton Decoder box, but evidently not!), which splits into 4 x 3.5 pins:
green
orange
silver
pink
So this is analogue input. However, I know that the sound card also has an SPDIF port, where I can plug in a Toslink (Optical) cable I have lying around. So my question is in two parts, I apologise if this is confusing:
1) By using these four audio ports (analogue) will I still get true 5.1 dolby surround?
2) If I wanted to go digital (which I do), where would I plug this cable into on my headset, I'm thinking that I would need a DAC converter (if so, how would this connect up)
I'm kind of new to audio side of things, more of a GPU man myself, so I apologise if this is badly written.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks
Volta13
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