Q6 Max with Hacker Mint official keycaps
- is no lightweight though, you won't be able to easily pick it up with one arm gripping just one side lol.
You mean 3.5mm jack, right?
I think when Microsoft brought out the Xbox One Wireless Adaptor on Windows 10 (the first one) that was when the Xbox standard was supported fully, including audio. But I might be off. Somewhere I have a cheap Turtle Beach Seires X Recon controller that has one of their audio adaptors built in, including a headphone amp that can get quite loud for a controller. So that Gamesir G7 Pro (looks lovely btw) might have some audio improvements in it.
Sony did release an official Wireless Adaptor for the Dual Shock 4 but didn't sell that well I believe (way before Sony PS PC ports were a thing) and the Dualsense is limited on PC vs PS5 and this might include some of the audio/haptic functions. Although I believe these functions work over USB and not wireless.
I've not tried the new Switch Pro 2 controller but that now has a 3.5mm audio jack in it too.
Kind of nice its become a standard, even for PCs. So any PC being used in the lounge and you have that option. I suspect it all needs more work and indeed battery life, audio codec and chipset could all be upgraded for PS6, please.
So been doing some testing just now and well all I can say it's very very very impressive, enough to fool anyone into thinking it was a dongle DAC or something if listening blind. The soundstage/imaging are actually very good. It's the kind of sound signature difference to the X9 as what different amps are to each other if that makes sense? It plays HEDEGARRD - Ratchets exactly as you would expect with thumping bass extension, there is no sibilance or brightness in the upper mids either which was the most surprising part. I was not expecting this, was expecting some kind of muffling of dynamic range or soundstage that was too compressed, but nope it's a nice open and detailed sound.
So whatever the amp/DAC inside is, it's doing a fantastic job.
There is obviously the limitation of loudness, it can only get to about the same loudness as the X9 does at -38dB in high gain mode via the balanced outputs. That is still fairly loud, but not head shaking loud as I normally listen at around -28 to -30dB if I'm really getting into the music.
Another limitation is video audio sync delay, it feels like it's a few ms behind the video when comparing directly to the wired connection watching youtube stuff, but realistically unless I was scanning for it, I'd probably be fine. It's in games where it's a wasted effort as the audio latency is too noticeable, fire a gun and half a second later the audio comes out lol. Maybe this works best on consoles but wirelessly on PC it's a no-go for gaming, but as a portable DAC for headphones seems perfectly usable to me.
The other thing is turns out Windows has built in room correction, using the Windows driver for the audio device on the controller, I see this option:
Who knew...
