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Sound Info needed on Analog and Digital

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eno

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Hello,

I just ordered a new pair of Sony head phones that read "Digital" on them. I have a SoYo K7V Dragon Plus with on-board 5.1 . Basically my sound is shallow and sounds bad(with the new head phones).

I have noticed on my other computer when I try to use the digital cable in the analog jack the sound on the main speakers come out very similar. It sounds shallow and very tweatish. When I use my analog cable the sound is warm and solid. So I take it that there is a analog signal going out of the card meaning of course , I need the analog cable to get good sound out of my speakers.

Now back to the computer with the new headphones. I have been using Technics headphones that are a cheaper line but sound great. Now in my main stereo in the other room these new sony's blow the technics away in sound , but in the computer room hooked up to my Klipsch 4.1 headphone jack( same jack the Technics were in) my sound is now shallow like the wrong signal is trying to go through them. I think there is a analog signal trying to go into them since my old Technics sound good and the new ones sound like garbage. So I need some input on the whole Analog and Digital area in computers.

Let me know if you need any other info to understand my situation. Thanks




ps Some would say " Just use the old ones", but I know how much better they are in the stereo room and I want that quality in the computer room for games.
also I need both computers to have Headphones so I can play head to head with out distraction, plus I be damned if my new set is going to used on old comp
which I never game in.


Thanks

-eno

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no headphones that i know of have a built in DAC. the v6 is one of those. they just say digital on them for no reason.. they are analog. i would bet that the reason they sound different with the digital cable is becuase the digital cable has a 75ohm (per digital coax spec) impedance whereas the regular cable will have far less. with the regular cable, the headphones will get more power and will be more cold than with the analog cable.

*all headphone jacks are analog*

i bet that the klipsh headphone jack is not supplying enough power to the v6s (very good set, btw), and the technics did not require so much power. but then the v6s are easily drvien by portables with thier wimpy aimps...

[edit]digital coax is 75ohm isnt it? or is that component video?[/edit]
 
Yeah Sony just puts digital on headphones as a marketing gimmick, most people will see the word digital and automatically assume its a high quality set. i think the other reason that they put digital on it is because they are meant for digital audio devices such as a cd player or mp3 player or maybe even a computer. nontheless it makes no difference whatsoever, since the digital signal is converted to analog anyways when they are outputed to your headphones.
 
So you don't think there is any settings that would be needed changed to help sound in the sound card area?






Sony Mdr V-6 at etronics.com for 56$
 
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