I own the Dt990 headset (open).
I wanted to buy a sound card now, but I always hear two opinions.
1x Where it says "gaming" is not good.
Others say they are good.
I looked for this one out of here because it is also quite popular.
That's great from China, but it doesn't always have to be gaming written on it
Chinaboller? How long has Creative been a Chinaböller?
It's all about gaming that my headset can be fired. Steps etc. Audible.
Umm why did you buy open studio headphones then?
Well, it doesn't matter if your mainboard doesn't manage to control the 250Ohm things cleverly, buy a DAC without gaming and download a software EQ such as APO Equalizer. There you can then adapt everything to your needs.
So I use the Creative Soundblaster X G6 myself, and yes, this word "gaming" annoys me too. But this sound card already has good sound.
But there are advantages and disadvantages.
Let's start with the advantages:
This sound card is Plug & Play capable and can also be used immediately under Linux without installing a driver. (At least this sound card worked immediately for me under Linux Mint)
The X button has RGB lighting and all possible colors can be set with the Creative Connect software
It makes good sound
Aux audio playback and set EQ can then also be used without a PC, and is practical for people who would like to use the DT990 Pro on their mobile phones. You only need a power bank for power supply and aux audio cables for aux connection.
Unfortunately, there are a couple of disadvantages:
The sound card does not always run stably under Windows and the sound just crashes from time to time.
If you want to play with midi keyboard via FLStudio, many will not be happy. Because the latency is unfortunately not better. And it's even worse: ASIO4All just doesn't work at all or the sound is not played back at all.
Very very bad microphone input. Monitoring with extreme latency (even worse than the old Creative Soundlbaster). But Aux is at least latency-free. Fortunately, I'm not affected because I prefer the Behringer mixer and RodeNT1A. That means, when I want to talk into the microphone, I connect the Aux cable to the Behringer mixer. Because at least the Aux sound is good.
But this is an external sound card with an integrated headphone amplifier.
The SoundBlasterX G5 and G6 are pretty good, you can use them for this. They make a decent sound and, above all, have enough power. From the internal Creative SBX AE5 and co. On the other hand, you should rather keep your fingers off.
Nope, this is not a sound card. You can't put it in the PCIe slot. So it's not a card. Google for sound card.
The sentence it crashes means don't buy.
But should crash, Windows.
Have a link ready?
Creative was never known for being good drivers. But if it keeps crashing, no idea. I haven't read anything yet.
Not exactly, what exactly do you need? Just an amplifier or a USB audio interface?
For headphones only. Otherwise I have the Shure mv7 on the mixer.
But if the rumor is there, there's usually something to it.
So it rarely happens. For me this sometimes happened once or twice a month after extreme use. And if the sound card crashes, then you just have to restart the PC in the worst case and then the thing works again.
Yes, but that's just a USB sound card with an integrated amplifier. In other words: If I connect the sound card, Windows will be recognized as the new sound card. If there wasn't a sound card chip on it, how else would sound come out via USB? Bluetooth headphones are also integrated into a sound card chip so that your smartphone or PC can recognize the Bluetooth sound chip in order to reproduce sound from headphones.
It was clear to me that you only need something for headphones. But do you only need an amplifier or an interface that you can connect to the PC with USB?
But if you already have a mixer, just use it. Then you don't need an extra device.
I don't think you fully understand how electronics work. There's no such thing as a sound card chip. There's an audio IC on the things. This audio chip is also on sound cards. A sound card is only a card if it is also a card. Everything else is called an audio interface. They're not cards. Providers of cheap interfaces also call them cards in the title because they want to reach as many customers as possible. However, providers of high quality hardware would never write a card in the title if it is an interface.
And that this interface can be connected with USB has nothing to do with the audio IC or the sound card chip you invented. It's a different chip. A USB peripheral controller. This chip tells the PC, or rather the host controller, what it is and what it wants. Then the PC gives audio to the part.
This is of course shown in a very simplified way. There's actually a lot more involved and significantly more components and chips are built into an audio interface or a card than an audio IC and USB controller
