Headphones....

[cpals]

This wasn't really a hardware question so I'm asking it here. I got the Sony MDR-V6 headphones a little while ago and they're really nice. I put on different ear pads and they feel and sound great. Well, anyways, I got in on the Staples deal for the Santa Cruz sound card and today while I was listening to music and looking at the sound card options I realized that my headphones say "Digital" on the side of them. Now, I thought this meant that I could plug the into my digital soundcard output and could listen to music that way. For some reason it doesn't work like I thought it would... any ideas? I tried using the versajack as the digital output.

Are my headphones not digital or is my soundcard not meant for digital headphone output?

 

[fatbaby]

mines say "for digital"

hmmm...me would like the answer to this as well

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[cpals]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
mines say "for digital"

hmmm...me would like the answer to this as well

bump

Uhh... yeah, that's what mine says. They still play via the analog output, but the digital doesn't "seem" to work.

 

[amnesiac]

The "digital" on the side of the headphones is likely just marketing and design, inferring that you can get high quality sound appropriate of digital devices...in other words, slightly higher fidelity than the baseline.

The "digital" is in no way meant to infer that the headphones come with a built in DAC (digital-to-analog converter) which is what you need when you output to an analog device.

So to answer your question, no, the headphones will NOT work with digital outputs. That's strictly for plugging into amplifiers with digital in, where it is then converted to analog out.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea it probably started when cds first came out. i've seen "digital" on the side of headphone packaging forever. its made to optimize "digital" quality haha, if its been on there so long it must do something for sales poor stupid peeps.. gah

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
yea it probably started when cds first came out. i've seen "digital" on the side of headphone packaging forever. its made to optimize "digital" quality haha, if its been on there so long it must do something for sales poor stupid peeps.. gah

hahah when I read the first post I started to laugh. Hahah. . . some people these days. If it doesn't work and you're not doing anything wrong then maybe it wasn't designed that way. Hahah . ..

 

[AU Tiger]

The digital out on the Santa Cruz has to have something on the other end of the cable that can convert the digital signal to sound. Headphones don't have the ability to do this.

 

[cpals]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
yea it probably started when cds first came out. i've seen "digital" on the side of headphone packaging forever. its made to optimize "digital" quality haha, if its been on there so long it must do something for sales poor stupid peeps.. gah

I didn't even know that it had the text on the side of the headphones when I bougth them nor did I care. I purchased them because of good reviews... So because I thought they might have been digital I'm stupid now?

Do they make any headphones that are digital? Don't they have Dolby Digital headphones?

 

[Maverick]

Do they make any headphones that are digital? Don't they have Dolby Digital headphones?

Yup Sony makes them too. I think they go for around $500-$700 though!