Creative X-fi + headphones?

[14k]

I was thinking of getting the X-Fi Xtreme Music (the others are a bit too expensive).

However, is it possible to use speakers and headphones at the same time? Is it possible to connect the card to the headphone ports on the front of my Antec Sonata II care? I just think it would be very annoying unplug and plug (switch) my headphones in all the time. (I don't have digital speakers with a headphone socket)

 

[zagood]

No, that's the one thing that really bugs me about this card. I'm lucky, I have an additional headphone socket on my speaker volume control.

The X-Fi I/O panel has a headphone jack, but this version doesn't come with it, and doesn't have any other outputs that you could plug into a case headphone port.

-z

 

[zagood]

Ugh. You can buy it seperately:
http://us.creative.com/products/product...ategory=1&subcategory=16&product=14659

Better to just get the Platinum for $50 more than the Xtreme.

-z

 

[Ika]

maybe you can try getting a splitter feed to your card, then having one end to your headphones, the other end to your speakers. that should work. i'm not sure if it degrades sound quality though.

 

[14k]

Bah, maybe I'll just leave it then. My case has a door, and only one drive bay left (want it for something else eventually) so the fatality or platinum is a no go. The elite pro version is too expensive, and the xtreme music I guess is too clumsy..

.. unless I get some new speakers? Would I have to go digital. What are a good value digital set with headphone out on the speaker control?

 

[TrevorRC]

Sound cards from Creative can NOT output digital [well, they can output, just not encode, AFAIK. Please correct me if I'm wrong.]

You'd be better off investing in some nice headphones, then grabbing a new sound card when the prices come down to reasonable levels. [Currently WAY too high IMO, I'm getting used to the price of Audigy 2's And with the 2->2ZS/A4 mod, I see no reason to buy an X-Fi right now.]

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: TrevorRC
Sound cards from Creative can NOT output digital [well, they can output, just not encode, AFAIK. Please correct me if I'm wrong.]

You'd be better off investing in some nice headphones, then grabbing a new sound card when the prices come down to reasonable levels. [Currently WAY too high IMO, I'm getting used to the price of Audigy 2's And with the 2->2ZS/A4 mod, I see no reason to buy an X-Fi right now.]

It can output digitally, it cannot encode to digital compression formats

 

[Rubycon]

I know someone that uses IEM's and runs the LFE channel into a special motor that's mounted to the chair that shakes it between 3 and 19 Hz. :Q

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
I know someone that uses IEM's and runs the LFE channel into a special motor that's mounted to the chair that shakes it between 3 and 19 Hz. :Q

They're called bass shakers

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
They're called bass shakers

Actually these aren't like the ones you buy but the principle is the same. At least that's what I thought until I saw seatbelts. :Q

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: guoziming
maybe you can try getting a splitter feed to your card, then having one end to your headphones, the other end to your speakers. that should work. i'm not sure if it degrades sound quality though.

This is what I ended up doing.
Works fine for me, but that's rather subjective so it might be a big issue to someone else.