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Sennheiser HD555

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dr0be

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I was thinking about buying some Sennheiser HD555's soon to play with my 360.

I know that if you use headphones and still want to use the standard 360 mic you have to put the settings to output all voice through speakers and wear the mic around your neck.

I have a pair of icemats and plugged them in and set the voice to output speakers only but the voices were so low I could barely hear anyone talking, the voice volume was maxed.

Is this different with the HD555s anyone know? Because I dont want to buy them and have them have that problem.
 
Maybe you should get a headphone amp instead of getting another pair of headphones?

I don't have a 360 and I've been confused about how all the headphone stuff hooks up in the past too 😛

How do the headphones hook up to the 360 again?
 
I'm not really a headphone guy, but if the problem is that your signal is too weak to drive headphones, an amp would give you more power to drive headphones.

I'm just going to shut up in this thread though since I'm not sure if this is the best course of action for you since I haven't tried it myself.
 
You're not really going to get any better answers. It sounds like the problem is that the line-level output from your X-Box is too weak to drive your headphones, and if that's the case, it absolutely will not change with the HD555s - they will be just as quiet, if not more so. The best solution to this would be to get a cheap headphone amp (i.e Boostaroo, CMOY, PA2V2, etc.) to amplify the signal coming from the system. Those amps probably won't do anything appreciable to the sound besides make it louder.

Of course, the problem may also lie with the setting on the X-Box itself, and I don't know anything about that. It might help to ask this question on a console forum rather than a PC forum.
 
Do you have those plugged into the controller or to whatever you have processing the sound (like a reciever)? If its the latter then I don't know what to tell you, but if its the former then I would say plug your headphones not into the controller (just the mic, although I'm not sure if you can have just the mic with the Icemats) but into whatever you have handling the sound.
 
This is how its setup sound wise with the 360.

The RCA cords coming out of the 360 (red/white) are plugged into This then I plugged the icemat headphones into the front input (green) on the logitech converter. The sounds was great, awsome surround sound, but the only deal was that people talking was so quiet when action was going on.

Those HD555's are used by alot of people in halo 2 with no problem, so I dont know if its my icemats I tried, or its just a deal with the 360 with voice being lower.

Even when theres nothing going on in the game the volume of peoples voices are significantly lower than if I was wearing the mic headset
 
You know, it may be that the voices are being played on the other channels more so than on the centre channel, which is what you're listening to. Have you tried plugging your headphones into the other jacks to see if that changes anything?

If that's the case, I think you could probably fix it with a basic RCA to minijack cable.
 
Originally posted by: Trippytiger
You know, it may be that the voices are being played on the other channels more so than on the centre channel, which is what you're listening to. Have you tried plugging your headphones into the other jacks to see if that changes anything?

If that's the case, I think you could probably fix it with a basic RCA to minijack cable.
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How is he listening to the center channel?
 
Try plugging in a pair of cheap earbuds (or, if you happen to have the box of a pair of headphones, find the lowest impedance pair of headphones you can find and plug those in). The lower the impedance, generally, the louder the headphones will sound.
 
If your tv has a line out try that. It might not be any better , but its worth a shot. Also as far as surround goes im no expert; however I think youd be better off with the icemats than the hd555 (specifically for the xbox). I dont think the 360 can simulate virtual surround for stereo headphones like a pc with a good soundcard can. Although for multiple different uses the hd555 should be much better than the icemats especially on a pc with virtual surround.

Edit: I just realized the line out on a tv is probably stereo only.
 
I bought a Y-adapter from radioshack today to convert the red/white RCA into 1/8" thinking that that was my problem, but the voices were louder, but still unhearable at times.
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
How is he listening to the center channel?
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Well, that's not quite what I meant - I realized that what I said was a little off after I posted, but I didn't have a chance to go back and correct it. What he is listening to is just the front right and left channels because he's only plugged in to the corresponding jack on the adapter. I thought that the voice output might be stronger on the other channels, but it looks like that wasn't quite right either.
 
Originally posted by: Trippytiger
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
How is he listening to the center channel?
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Well, that's not quite what I meant - I realized that what I said was a little off after I posted, but I didn't have a chance to go back and correct it. What he is listening to is just the front right and left channels because he's only plugged in to the corresponding jack on the adapter. I thought that the voice output might be stronger on the other channels, but it looks like that wasn't quite right either.
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It seems like he's basically going to get the same sound from any jack he plugs into with the adapter except he might be getting dual mono on the center jack.

I would assume that the 360 would be sending a stereo downmix of all channel information out its analog outputs so he wouldn't really be missing anything.
 
Yeah, I went to radioshack and bought a y-adapter to remove the logitech adapter and turn the RCA red/white into 1 input and the voices were improved, but was still hard to hear.

Im guessing thats as good at it will get.
 
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