Technology Explained What sound setup do you have for your PC?

[shifttymike]

Sound on desk. JBL Bar 2.1
This thing sounds so good!

Interesting, I tried a fairly small TV soundbar on the desk and for reasons I can't explain, it did not work well. It seemed to sound best when you were at least 2m away from it. It was fatiguing as a PC speaker. YMMV obviously, might have been the speaker configuration or something idk.

 

[pɐlΛ‾pɐq‾ƃᴉq]

Interesting, I tried a fairly small TV soundbar on the desk and for reasons I can't explain, it did not work well. It seemed to sound best when you were at least 2m away from it. It was fatiguing as a PC speaker. YMMV obviously, might have been the speaker configuration or something idk.

When you have a chance, go demo a unit. It really is impressive. Wireless sub can be tuned for delay depending on where you place it. Mine sits under the desk

Link

Edit: I initially bought this for the TV but plans have changed.

 

[Some_Guy21]

One of my best purchases this year.

Logitech Z533 Multimedia 2.1 Speaker System with Subwoofer

Shop Z533 Speakers. Features dynamic bass, integrated control pod, front facing subwoofer, 60 watts RMS, 3.5mm aux, RCA inputs and outputs, and headphone jack

www.logitech.com

Really a lot of bang for the buck as they say.

 

[crackOlicious]

Use headphones when I'm gaming. For anything else I use a very old 2.1 Divoom speaker set from the mid 2000's

Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

 

[ThatGuyJD]

(Don't show the guys in headphone nuts thread this thread, they will make us all embarrassed)

@PandaAttack1 @Spaffy

 

[Sly]

Z906 on my onboard Z390 Master soundcard, need to change it out to a proper one
Headset are some cheepy work Jabre ones. Don't really game with headsets that much these days.

 

[PandaAttack1]

@PandaAttack1 @Spaffy

You rang?

 

[ThatGuyJD]

You rang?

I just thought as the founding post to the audiophile thread you'd want to at least shed some light on your sound setup.

 

[Toy Machine]

-Fx-Audio-DAC-X6
-SHP9500's

Currently plugged into an i3 laptop lol.

 

[DuncanBH]

I got a Logitech G51 5.1 from late 2000's that I found stored away at a mates house never been used. Impressive for its age

 

[Oj0]

Creative Sound Blaster Zx sound card
Pioneer VSX-515 amp
Sony SS-D40 bookshelves + Yamaha YST-SW012 sub

Oh, and sound activated lasers mounted to the ceiling in each corner.

 

[orange_jo0se]

Old Logitech x-530, set up in 5.1 for movies, music and other entertainment, then a set of corsair hs70's for gaming.

The 5.1 setup is more than enough for my room, plenty of bass.... mostly use it to watch movies and tbh that's where is shines, music sounds pretty average

 

[bythecantloads]

Creative Sound Blaster Zx sound card
Pioneer VSX-515 amp
Sony SS-D40 bookshelves + Yamaha YST-SW012 sub

Oh, and sound activated lasers mounted to the ceiling in each corner.

Mirror above the bed as well?

 

[Oj0]

Mirror above the bed as well?

Er, no?

 

[pɐlΛ‾pɐq‾ƃᴉq]

Er, no?

big disappoint

 

[Spaffy]

@PandaAttack1 @Spaffy

Logitech Z680 & Corsair Void Pro headies.
Sorry nothing amazing.

 

[ViVceptioN]

Nothing amazing tbh

Mostly my Corsair Voids
If I'm in the lounge I'll just use the built-in TV speakers xD If I want to feel the music in my body I switch to my google home speaker.
And my phone for my Youtube videos, I live alone, no one will hear

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

Does anyone have experience with running a surround sound system off their pc via TOSLINK cable?
Or is the normal aux route better? i.e different aux cables for each channel?

 

[Crouchinglee]

Mine used to be on the pc but shit changed

PC soundcard: Phoebus
Speaker setup: Sony HT DDW 1600
Earphones: Sennheiser Game Zero

One day I will join the big boys with their earth shaking home audio

 

[baasgene]

I currently still rock :

Denon X2200w AVR
Monitor Audio Bronze 6 (Front)
Monitor Audio Bronze 2 (Surrounds)
SVS PB-1000 Pro Sub

I use my second HDMI port on the Nvidia to push the sound, it's PCM then so works like a charm.

Since I'm satisfied with my rig, this will be my next purchase but not this year. Still focusing on other things currently.

Sound X Shop

Sound X Shop | Sound X Perience Shop Online Today

www.soundxshop.co.za

I have Sennheiser HD600 headies but I don't do headphones anymore since I stopped playing online. My system makes better music than a HD600 anyway.

 

[bythecantloads]

Interesting to see people running amplifiers and AV Receivers with their pc builds. It obviously adds to the quality, but it also adds heavily to the price.

 

[Darkxeon]

Eris E 5 presonus audiobox

 

[goldfritter]

Does anyone have experience with running a surround sound system off their pc via TOSLINK cable?
Or is the normal aux route better? i.e different aux cables for each channel?

This depends entirely on what you want to connect the toslink/aux cables to.

If you are running the surround system off an AVR, then it is likely that the AVR will have better DAC than the PC, so the toslink is better (provided the PC outputs a format that the AVR can receive, but that shouldn't be an issue).

If you are using some other way to power the speakers then it's likely that the different-aux-cable route is your only option, since you'll need to pass an analogue signal to the speakers somehow.

If you happen to have an AVR that has individual RCA or aux inputs per channel, as well as toslink, you can even experiment and see which sounds better. But overall I would probably recommend letting the AVR handle the DAC duties.

You can maybe also run HDMI from the GPU to the AVR... I haven't tried doing it that way but if the PC sees the AVR as a sound device that might work too. Then it would be the same as (or better than) the toslink route as the PC would be passing a digital signal to the AVR.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

This depends entirely on what you want to connect the toslink/aux cables to.

If you are running the surround system off an AVR, then it is likely that the AVR will have better DAC than the PC, so the toslink is better (provided the PC outputs a format that the AVR can receive, but that shouldn't be an issue).

If you are using some other way to power the speakers then it's likely that the different-aux-cable route is your only option, since you'll need to pass an analogue signal to the speakers somehow.

If you happen to have an AVR that has individual RCA or aux inputs per channel, as well as toslink, you can even experiment and see which sounds better. But overall I would probably recommend letting the AVR handle the DAC duties.

You can maybe also run HDMI from the GPU to the AVR... I haven't tried doing it that way but if the PC sees the AVR as a sound device that might work too. Then it would be the same as (or better than) the toslink route as the PC would be passing a digital signal to the AVR.

Reason I want to go with the toslink route over HDMI is because my board supposedly has a pretty decent dac built into it.
ESS Sabre something or another...

 

[Toxicdust]

For PC:
behringer HA400 DAC
Senheiser HD569
Gigabyte 1440p Screen with some speaker in to switch form headphones to lazy mode

TV:
Hisense HS218 Soundbar

Mobile / Laptop:
Jabra Elite H85

 

[DominionZA]

Sound Blaster Z into Harman Kardon Soundstick 3. Sounds flipping awesome.

 

[goldfritter]

Reason I want to go with the toslink route over HDMI is because my board supposedly has a pretty decent dac built into it.
ESS Sabre something or another...

If you go toslink then you are bypassing your board's DAC anyway. Toslink is a digital signal, not analogue. If you want to use the board's DAC then aux is the only way to go.

That said, there are still benefits to using offboard DAC - mainly that you usually have much better shielding from noise. I also suspect (but am not 100% sure) that even entry-level AVRs have better DACs than even really good mobos. But I might be wrong.

 

[Oj0]

Does anyone have experience with running a surround sound system off their pc via TOSLINK cable?
Or is the normal aux route better? i.e different aux cables for each channel?

TOS that Link. Seriously, optical is outdated. Analogue lives on, but TOSLink has all but vanished. HDMI > S/PDIF.

 

[yourang]

Corsair Virtuoso

For now, will get better mic etc, when I start streaming

 

[Andrew_Smith]

Previous:
Speakers
Logitech Z623
Logitech Z906

Headphones
Corsair Vengeance 1400
Corsair VOID Wireless RGB
Sennheiser HD 439
Sennheiser Game Zero
Sony WH-1000XM3

Current:
Speakers
Creative A250

Headphones
AKG Type-C Earbuds

Next CUD will definitely be new sound for the ears - maybe something like the Sennheiser PXC 550-II Wireless.