Creative X-Fi

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: niggles
So just wondering the entire thing with the X-fi is the ability of it to simulate surround sound with 2 simple speakers. What this means to me is that I can stop using my Zalman 5.1 headphones and switch to some nice Sennheisers. I'm just wondering, if I felt like using my logitech USB microphone headset will that be a problem. I guess the question really is can USB headphones produce this effect even though they are not plugged directly into the sound card. Can this effect be passed accross the bus? Not sure how it is achieved so any help on this would be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to be plugged into the X-Fi to get the surround headphone feature.

Nope, I have my comp and sound card running through my denon 3805 receiver and get the surround effects. I use my denon AHD-750 headphones and my Sennheiser HD-465 and the effects are definately there. I close my eyes and run the sound test which is a helicopter going around and I can hear all sides and the rear.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: niggles
So just wondering the entire thing with the X-fi is the ability of it to simulate surround sound with 2 simple speakers. What this means to me is that I can stop using my Zalman 5.1 headphones and switch to some nice Sennheisers. I'm just wondering, if I felt like using my logitech USB microphone headset will that be a problem. I guess the question really is can USB headphones produce this effect even though they are not plugged directly into the sound card. Can this effect be passed accross the bus? Not sure how it is achieved so any help on this would be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to be plugged into the X-Fi to get the surround headphone feature.

Nope, I have my comp and sound card running through my denon 3805 receiver and get the surround effects. I use my denon AHD-750 headphones and my Sennheiser HD-465 and the effects are definately there. I close my eyes and run the sound test which is a helicopter going around and I can hear all sides and the rear.

You connect to your 3805 with USB?

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: niggles
So just wondering the entire thing with the X-fi is the ability of it to simulate surround sound with 2 simple speakers. What this means to me is that I can stop using my Zalman 5.1 headphones and switch to some nice Sennheisers. I'm just wondering, if I felt like using my logitech USB microphone headset will that be a problem. I guess the question really is can USB headphones produce this effect even though they are not plugged directly into the sound card. Can this effect be passed accross the bus? Not sure how it is achieved so any help on this would be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to be plugged into the X-Fi to get the surround headphone feature.

Nope, I have my comp and sound card running through my denon 3805 receiver and get the surround effects. I use my denon AHD-750 headphones and my Sennheiser HD-465 and the effects are definately there. I close my eyes and run the sound test which is a helicopter going around and I can hear all sides and the rear.

You connect to your 3805 with USB?

My bad, I misread the USB bit.