Just got a pair of goldring ns 1000's, is it best to connect direct to the rear inputs on my Xonar DX soundcard, i have a set of creative i-trigue 3330 2.1 speakers with a desktop mounted volume knob with a built in headphone jack, not the best speakers tbh.
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Tbh Marsman, the creative speakers arent great, i bought them on a tight budget, the volume knob is terrible, feather touch it and it moves, hence i have it turned up full and leave it. Ive tried the NS100's direct to the xonar, (very short standard cable), cant do FP audio as my case is pretty large and the FP audio cables dont stretch that far. Im gonna have to get an extension cable for the headphones to the sound card. But so far im pretty impressed with the sound from them but i cant move to far .
I'm baffled why the NS1000's don't have a flush with the casing socket, like the DR50/100/150's.
You can buy extension cables for PC front case audio. Akasa HD Audio extension
You can buy extension cables for PC front case audio. Akasa HD Audio extension
There are plenty of 3.5 to 3.5 cables that would fit but don't ask me which plenty on kenable.
I use a male to female extension but wish I'd sourced a straight in cable just need to find out if it's narrow enough to fit in the headphones input I think someone said a certain belkin one is narrow enough but god knows exactly which one it is.
have you put the battery in btw ? if you feel like the bass is lacking slightly buy an e5 amp around £15 I find this signature much better more punchy deeper bass meatier sound stage.
I wouldn't bother with front audio if I were you unless the front panel cable is a shielded one or you are prepared to add ferrite clamps or rings.
I use a male to female extension but wish I'd sourced a straight in cable just need to find out if it's narrow enough to fit in the headphones input I think someone said a certain belkin one is narrow enough but god knows exactly which one it is.
have you put the battery in btw ? if you feel like the bass is lacking slightly buy an e5 amp around £15 I find this signature much better more punchy deeper bass meatier sound stage.
I wouldn't bother with front audio if I were you unless the front panel cable is a shielded one or you are prepared to add ferrite clamps or rings.
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I have the same situation setter. I have a desktop speaker volume control that I plug my headphones (HD555s) into, as I cba to bend down and reach behind the PC each time I want to insert / remove my headphone jack from the sound card. My X-Fi has no separate headphone jack as all the outputs are taken up by the cheapo Creative 5.1 speakers.
Can you explain why? Are you quite sure that quality is significantly affected, as I tried plugging it directly into the sound card instead of into the speaker jack and noticed no difference.
Can you explain why? Are you quite sure that quality is significantly affected, as I tried plugging it directly into the sound card instead of into the speaker jack and noticed no difference.
Managed to find an extension cable to enable me to connect to the rear output on the soundcard. Does sound a lot better than the speakers desktop connector. The battery is also installed in the headphones, also gonna order myself an e5 amp. Tbh the desktop speakers i have are pretty poor, hopefully gonna replace them soon.
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Does the soundcard play through the speakers when you disconnect the headphones from the extension lead or do you have to disconnect it at the soundcard jack?
Ive just removed the speaker jack from the connector on the soundcard and inserted the heaphone extension, not really bothered about having to swap between connections as i prefer to use headphones for gaming/music. Only really use the speakers on the odd occasion for watching dvd's/blu rays.
then you are deaf
it's a massive difference to me if you ran them from the speakers headphone out via the e5 amp then it might be liveable but all I do is have my case on a desk next to my monitor sideways so the rear of the case is pointing toward the side of the monitor makes swapping around stuff far less painful
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then you are deaf
I have a desk with a neat shelf for the tower, so I need another solution to plonking it onto the top of the desk.
Googling around seems to suggest that I can effecitvely whistle for it with my current X-Fi Xtreme Music card
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