Blu ray pc surround sound advice?

wakayoda · 20 Jan 2010 at 21:03

I'm soon getting the OCUK blu ray drive and was wonding what sound card + speakers to get, the logitech ones http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-052-LG&tool=3

I am using windows 7, I've heard about emulation issues with some cards an I am eager to avoid this

Cheers

Uriel · 20 Jan 2010 at 21:40

Budget for speakers and soundcard?

Bear in mind that the player software that comes with most Blu Ray drives is 2.0 channel only. You may have to pay extra for 5.1 or 7.1.

wakayoda · 20 Jan 2010 at 21:56

£150 budget for speakers and sound card

Or as an alternative these 5.1 headphones http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-003-PT
paired with this card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-004-AS

?

Uriel · 20 Jan 2010 at 22:40

USB headphones generally don't work with soundcards, as they have their own sound device built in.

The Xonar D1 has Dolby Headphone, which is designed to emulate surround sound (very well I might add) over standard stereo headphones. I would highly recommend Goldring DR50 or DR150 with the Xonar (I used to have a Xonar D2, which reportely sounds very similar).

The main issue is the headphones will sound immensely better than the speakers. Unless you have friends round, I suspect that you might not bother with the speakers.

ojrules · 21 Jan 2010 at 19:30

be careful with 5.1 surround sound headsets: some people are quite critical of them and i'm one... you'd be much better off going stereo

Azuse05 · 22 Jan 2010 at 21:18

Agreed. If you can't imitation surround use the headphone effect on the soundcard.

AgedIdiot · 23 Jan 2010 at 23:16

Uriel said:
You may have to pay extra for 5.1 or 7.1.

True but

Got the Lg BlueRay/Hd H20L about 6 mnths ago - it came with Power DvD

and 2 speaker sound.

Did not want to spend a fortune so just got on with it.

Anyway when the software was installed it included an ET call home bit to look for upgrades which ran from time to time and 'updated' itself.

No problems ... except it now runs 5.1

- one of the updates must have included it . Suddenly dawned on me that the sound was not only coming from the front (no idea as to how long it may have been running

) and having checked realised had got a nice upgrade.

Do not often get good luck like this so thought I'd share - Just goes to show good things do happen (But certainly would not expect it)