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Interesting posts @Digfox!
I actually know very little about headphones and external DACs, but I'm definitely interested. I've always stuck on the amp and speakers side of things.
What's curious about the PS5 is that it looks like Sony are focusing on a proprietary 3D audio standard. I wonder what the conversion into more standard amp formats will sound like, and how much, if anything, you'll be missing.
If you really do need the official headphones they offer to fully access the format, that would be kind of insane - because I'm sure they sound pretty good, but they're obviously going to be a very long way from audiophile quality. It's also a bummer if you've already invested in great speakers or headphones.
No matter what will happens, personally I'll end up using my amp and speakers, just because I didn't upgrade that long ago and love the sound of them. Interested to see what I'll lose by doing that though.
Originally posted by Team Andromeda'IF' you spend thousands, you wouldn't look to use headphones
Just not true at all. People absolutely do spend thousands of pounds on headphones and specialised DACs and amplifiers for them.Last edited by wakka; 21-06-2020, 20:00.
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Originally posted by wakka View Post
Just not true at all. People absolutely do spend thousands of pounds on headphones and specialised DACs and amplifiers for them.[/COLOR]
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Originally posted by Team Andromeda View PostI like to see headphones that cost more than the ultimate speaker set up myself. My floor speakers cost more than the PS4 it's self
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Any speakers worth their salt will cost more than a PS4.
I really don't know why I'm bothering, because this line of conversation is insanely stupid, but here you go, a 5 second Google reveals some that cost nearly £4k:
STAX SR009S Reference Electrostatic Earspeakers from Audio Sanctuary. UK's Authorised Supplier Of Stax Earspeaker Systems
You can find some more expensive ones yourself if you're interested. It's totally valid (and interesting, to me at least!) to be into high end headphones, and I have absolutely no clue why you're having a go about it. It just kills interesting conversations on the forum when you do this.
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Originally posted by Team Andromeda View Post
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Originally posted by wakka View PostAny speakers worth their salt will cost more than a PS4..Last edited by Team Andromeda; 21-06-2020, 20:51.
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I don't know about all this fancy gear which cost more than I will ever have to spend on toys... But I've enjoyed the 3D audio offerings on Xbox so far for headphones (Dolby Digital and Windows Sonic or whatever it was called). I've got a fairly decent set of noise cancelling over ear cans and I used to just be lazy and use Bluetooth to the from my TV but wiring then up to the controller and using these codecs is something else.
I'm no audiophile but it's pretty amazing depending on the game implementation.
If Sony is doing tempest like this for all games on PS5 and MS pushes DTS:X or similar for headphones then they'd good enough for me.
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