Brahma
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The "Shit I just bought" thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Noodleface
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I think you would look hilarious is all.. plus that audio fidelity is lost when the dude on the other end is using a $5 headset
Brahma
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LOL. I didn't think of that. I think I will ask my buds tonite wtf they are using for headsets/headphones. Bastards. Here I am spending all my hard earned money on sounding like Barry White on the mic for them, and I come off sounding like fuckin Mickey Mouse.
What you say is exactly why I bought this mic. It was fuckin silly having my old mic right in my face. The mic actually is nowhere near me now. Maybe 3 feet away, but does a pretty good job of picking my voice up and eliminating background noise.
Brahma
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Get the 598's and I will GIVE you a Titanium HD. Long as you pay for shipping of course.
Noodleface
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And don't get me wrong, I am completely jealous of your audio equipment. I just think it would look funny is all.
gogusrl
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Because I'm connecting through pppoe and from what I've seen it can't handle more than 300-400 mbps. I was planning on grabbing one to do some tests but when I saw this offer I couldn't refuse it.
Routing on it is going to be a background thing compared to what I have planed. I can swap in an Xeon E3-1230 v2 and a M1015 HBA and pass-through it for ZFS and other goodies. Can't wait to do some benches between RouterOS and pfSense on x86 at 1 gbps.
Nola
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I'll jump on that. Shit I'll PayPal you the shipping money and you send that bitch down here to Louisiana.
Man your son is so big now. I remember the last time I saw him he was literally a baby.
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Nola
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Works ever greening. Our researchers had these Dell Precision 7400's that got upgraded to Alienware systems. Got on for 250$ with dual quad core Xeon processors, 24 gigs of ram and a 4 500gb drives. Tossed in a shelved gtx 8800. It's my new esx box, but also media server and smb for the house. We have 4tb of storage attached, I just need to figure out if I even bother running backups or just deal with raid.
Pretty sad that box was about 8 grand or something like that when it first came in, now it's basically junk for the matlab junkies.
Edit: it's also now my room heater and power bill maker
Pretty sad that box was about 8 grand or something like that when it first came in, now it's basically junk for the matlab junkies.
Edit: it's also now my room heater and power bill maker
brekk
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I've been telling my roommates to stop spending money on overpriced crap headsets, buy some real headphones and a dedicated Mic.
I'm running sennheiser 518s through an Asus Xonar DG. It's a cheap soundcard but it has a built in headphone amp and I don't need crazy 5.1 processing.
I'm running sennheiser 518s through an Asus Xonar DG. It's a cheap soundcard but it has a built in headphone amp and I don't need crazy 5.1 processing.
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Brahma, have you used any other USB DAC/amps? I purchased a Fiio E10 with the hopes that it would get rid of the tearing in some of my games(explosions in SC2 are some of the worst), but that didn't work. Furthermore, I didn't really see a difference between the E10 and whatever onboard sound I was using before. Do you think that Schiit combo would make an improvement in either of categories?
FYI, I'm using Senn HD595's. And I've verified the tearing on other headphones that have never even been used on my desktop previously(practically brand new).
FYI, I'm using Senn HD595's. And I've verified the tearing on other headphones that have never even been used on my desktop previously(practically brand new).
Brahma
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I'm not a DAC guy, sorry. I game too much.BUT...
DAC's don't improve sound quality. A DAC is a DAC. Once you get your sound out of the case, and away from the internal noise, you are fine. Yes there are some bad DAC's, but your E10 is pretty good, and spending another 500 bucks on one isn't going to help. Now AMPS are a different beast. They will improve sound quality a ton depending on your headphones of course. But not help tearing. And that E10 doesn't have enough juice to distort your sound.
Tearing in sound from what I remember is the soundcard and like your video card being on the same IRQ. Which won't apply to you, assuming you disabled the onboard. Make sure to disable any other communications devices you aren't using also.
Or some other program is fucking up your sound. Like Skype or Vent. Go thru the normal elimination processes to figure out what it could be. Sorry I can't help more.
Grab a soundcard anyway man! You will be happier.
DAC's don't improve sound quality. A DAC is a DAC. Once you get your sound out of the case, and away from the internal noise, you are fine. Yes there are some bad DAC's, but your E10 is pretty good, and spending another 500 bucks on one isn't going to help. Now AMPS are a different beast. They will improve sound quality a ton depending on your headphones of course. But not help tearing. And that E10 doesn't have enough juice to distort your sound.
Tearing in sound from what I remember is the soundcard and like your video card being on the same IRQ. Which won't apply to you, assuming you disabled the onboard. Make sure to disable any other communications devices you aren't using also.
Or some other program is fucking up your sound. Like Skype or Vent. Go thru the normal elimination processes to figure out what it could be. Sorry I can't help more.
Grab a soundcard anyway man! You will be happier.
Brahma
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