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I've had both, 900 is better for gaming, period.
Yup. It is much larger sounding overall. This gives you the "you are there" feeling while the 700 sound stage is smaller and less conducive to directional sound.
i have modded several of these headphones. a strip of proper rubberized duct tape works just as well as dynamat. the idea is to control vibration on the cup. with damping and felt removal, the rx700 sounds 1/2 way between a stock rx700 and an rx900
also try metal tape if you want more highs and less bass
That is probably the best budget headphone setup going. For speakers, go with the same sound card and the partsexpress t-amp + bookshelves deal for $58.
Got my RX700s hooked up last night and I have some highly annoying feedback coming through the 700s connected to the Xonar DG. I never heard this with the KCS75 (less sensitive?), but with the 700s I get noise from doing pretty much anything on my computer. Just moving the mouse give me a constant whine, HD access and apparently GPU use can cause the problem as well. It happens with the sound fully muted as well. So either my front headphone jack cabling is super noisy or I need a new PSU or ???.
I don't have another PCI slot to move the sound card to either. The card is in the only exposed PCI slot on my motherboard, directly above the PSU as well.
Found your problem.
But its so damn convenient...
I might try wrapping the front panel cable in foil + tape + ground wire tonight to see if that helps. My PC isn't in a place where it is easy to access the jacks on the backs, and I would still like to use the USB ports on the front panel as well.
Perhaps try running a short 3.5mm audio cable extender from the rear headphone output so you can easly access it... However I'm not sure if DG card has seperate rear outputs for your speakers and headphones.. I'll be getting my DG sometime this week, too be honest I was hoping to use front panel headphone jack... oh well.
I have a 3.5 audio extension cable. The problem is that when my kid uses the PC she needs the speakers, so she just unplugs the headphones. When I sit down to use the PC, I plug in the headphones. The auto jack sensing make this work really smoothly.
It just hit me, I could plug the headphones into the back and she could plug her speakers into the front when needed.
Presuming the Xonar DG lets me use the headphone amp on the rear output...
I hope it will work let us know...
Well the jack sensing only works correctly if the front jack is set to FP Headphone and the back is set to Headphone. With the front set to FP Speakers, I don't get sound in the headphones when I unplug the speakers. Then to "fix" it, I need to manually select Headphone, get sound in the headphones, then when I plug in the speakers and it switches back to FP Headphones.
Aside from this, the Xonar Audio Center blows
sounds like a pain in the ars..
Do you mean "blows" aka sucks?
The front panel static issues, sound like a pretty common problem with some setups/cases... perhaps you are having a problem with your pc case like Antec 300 is having... I might have the same problem with my CM 922's front panel...
Aside some having the front panel speakers labelled as headphones, it does in fact work perfectly fine the way I have it setup now.
I just tried wrapping my front panel cable in foil and electrical tape, then running a ground from the foil to the case. This should shield the cable against certain types of noise. It didn't help, which mean my noise is likely from a shared ground with the USB ports and the headphone jack in the front panel.
Now my PC stinks because apparently I bought the worse smelling electrical tape ever created.
I have a 3.5 audio extension cable. The problem is that when my kid uses the PC she needs the speakers, so she just unplugs the headphones. When I sit down to use the PC, I plug in the headphones. The auto jack sensing make this work really smoothly.
Why not just run the speaker cable to the desk and leave it there along w/the extension, so it's trivial to unplug one and plug the other... Sure it means you have to switch any software settings manually, but it's probably less of a hassle than shielding the front panel cable (and even then it'd probably still sound better). Failing that, I'd have to agree w/others, just replace those front panel jacks.
Altho I've actually been looking for replacement front panel cables too (3.5mm to HD audio plug) and they're not so easy to find, most of the ones I've seen are AC97 (like FrontX's).
Hmm, I'm out of ideas... Sounds like the issue might be with the header where the front panel jacks plug into rather then the cable itself. You could bypass it entirely by running an extension cable from the back panel back into the case but that's kinda crude and it'd complicate switching between headphones and speakers unless you don't mind reaching behind the case to do it.
I am now attempting to fix the problem with a new case. I have this bad feeling that something is grounding out to my current case or that front panel connecter has a wiring problem. Replacing just the front panel connectors is going to cost me ~$30 and may have the same problem. Instead of dropping $30 for a random change that a new Lian Li panel fixes the issue, I order a Cooler Master case.
Get an inline ferrite core on the front audio header. I had the same issues as you did with the front audio header producing noise and feedback even when the audio was low or muted. Ferrite core helped but didn't fully eliminated the noise. By a random act of luck, I was installing a new video card and had to route the front audio cable a different way. This completely eliminated my noise. Previously the cable was running across the video card and then into the mobo header. Now it's routed through the side of the case, out the bottom, then into the header.
Get an inline ferrite core on the front audio header. I had the same issues as you did with the front audio header producing noise and feedback even when the audio was low or muted. Ferrite core helped but didn't fully eliminated the noise. By a random act of luck, I was installing a new video card and had to route the front audio cable a different way. This completely eliminated my noise. Previously the cable was running across the video card and then into the mobo header. Now it's routed through the side of the case, out the bottom, then into the header.
I gotta say I used to be a preacher for the 700s but I just replaced them with Steelseries Siberia V2's and gotta say they outperform the 700 in every way, and more comfortable as well! It has great bass, high trebles w/o screeching, and are lighter! they have a bigger soundstage, and are light w/o feeling they'll break the first time they drop...
I gotta say I used to be a preacher for the 700s but I just replaced them with Steelseries Siberia V2's and gotta say they outperform the 700 in every way, and more comfortable as well! It has great bass, high trebles w/o screeching, and are lighter! they have a bigger soundstage, and are light w/o feeling they'll break the first time they drop...