Gamers, What's Your Audio Set Up?

By the way, if you ever feel you want to solve the channel balance issue down the line then you could send it in to Mend It Mark who will do a video on it too, only just thought about that, he'd probably love figuring something like that out too. I left the balance adjustment on whatever it was that i found sounded central so you are probably hearing good balance if you're using 4.4mm but if it drifts in future then just re-adjust as needed in the audio settings menu. This only affects headphones, not the rear outputs.
 
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By the way, if you ever feel you want to solve the channel balance issue down the line then you could send it in to Mend It Mark who will do a video on it too, only just thought about that, he'd probably love figuring something like that out too. I left the balance adjustment on whatever it was that i found sounded central so you are probably hearing good balance if you're using 4.4mm but if it drifts in future then just re-adjust as needed in the audio settings menu. This only affects headphones, not the rear outputs.
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I thought it sounded centered when I first plugged it in and thought "it's fixed itself!" then I found the setting where you had it + 8.5 to the right lol I have dialed it back a little to 6.5 or so which sounds centered to my ears.

I am hoping it isn't a hardware fault, like one of the R2R ladder chips failing hence the imbalance but rather a software glitch.

OVerall, I am happy with it leaving it like that, there is plenty of headroom left so it isn't a problem, considering it cost a mug of tea :D
 
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I suspect it might be one of the capacitors, if it is then those are easy to remove and replace, if it's the R2R then if you have the skills to desolder then they too can be replaced, an IC needs finer tools though. Diagnosis on what would need some reverse engineering and additional scopes/tools, that is where Mend It Mark would be perfect.

I used one of those websites to check which value was most central by the way, not music as music isn't controlled enough for setting balance!
 
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I suspect it might be one of the capacitors, if it is then those are easy to remove and replace, if it's the R2R then if you have the skills to desolder then they too can be replaced, an IC needs finer tools though. Diagnosis on what would need some reverse engineering and additional scopes/tools, that is where Mend It Mark would be perfect.

I used one of those websites to check which value was most central by the way, not music as music isn't controlled enough for setting balance!
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Alright, put it back to 8.5 :)

This is probably the most accesible/convenient place for it that is near my desk at the moment. The 1.5m cable reaches but not much slack, I might get a 2m one later on..

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Swap the placement with the DX5 *spits*
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It's too big (That's what she says!) on my desk, it's about half the depth of the desk so will take up like 25% of space.

Besides, it's in good company, the 3 books at the bottom collectively is worth more than the amp. :eek:
 
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Raymond Lin said:
It's too big (That's what she says!) on my desk, it's about half the depth of the desk so will take up like 25% of space.

Besides, it's in good company, the 3 books at the bottom collectively is worth more than the amp. :eek:
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Definitely to big Raymond, send it off to me :D
 
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Alright, put it back to 8.5 :)

This is probably the most accesible/convenient place for it that is near my desk at the moment. The 1.5m cable reaches but not much slack, I might get a 2m one later on..
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If all else fails, there is ample room on my desk :D.

Very jealous though, would have been what I went for with more spare dosh but ended up throwing £3k for my RTX 5090 in the end back in early March. Plus picked up an LG G5 on launch (which is ridiculously good now they fixed everything) so doing alright for new tech so far this year :).

I've had motherboard sound for so long that the DX5 II just sounds incredible to me but obviously at this price point, it's not perfect. Updated firmware earlier and definitely needed to dial back the volume a little bit as well!
 
Mine was on 13.0 (13.9 now) when it arrived. I just left it on that until tonight.

I was dragging and dropping the .TOPPING file out the zip file straight into the drive and it didn't like that at all. Didn't pick it up. Had to save the folder to my desktop and then copy and paste it from the folder into the DAC. 30 mins of my life I'll never get back.....
 
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Mine was on 13.0 (13.9 now) when it arrived. I just left it on that until tonight.

I was dragging and dropping the .TOPPING file out the zip file straight into the drive and it didn't like that at all. Didn't pick it up. Had to save the folder to my desktop and then copy and paste it from the folder into the DAC. 30 mins of my life I'll never get back.....
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I did it first attempt on the Mac Mini. I was surprised how easy it was.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I did it first attempt on the Mac Mini. I was surprised how easy it was.
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Yeah it's a bit weird it didn't like it directly from the zip file. I thought I was doing something stupid so read the instructions properly and I was following them. Then did exactly the same thing after unzipping the folder to my desktop and it instantly ejected and reconnected with the update screen on the digital display. :confused:

Probs gone down -5 to -4 db since the firmware update to get roughly the same level so like -24 db / -25 db. Previously it was -20 / -21
 
No, it makes us enjoy the games more, especially ones with proper decent audio production.

Play Hellblade series for example on "gaming" headphones vs the kind of stuff discussed here, world of difference.
 
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