PC & Console (Simulations Sound) Help Needed!

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I'm continuing my search to find a way to have my PC & XboxOne Sound coming through my Headphones simultaneously (so for example I can listen to music on the PC while listening to the game on the Xbox through the same Headphone at the same time), so far I have tried the following;

I started with the Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D (Headphones in Device, USB from Device to PC & Optical from Device to Xbox) it worked, but after a few months the Device started having many problems (it would cut itself off/restart itself/kill all game sound completley, forcing the game to be restarted to get the sound back).

next I tried the Astro MixAmp Pro (same setup with the Headphones in the Device, USB from Device to PC & Optical from Device to Xbox) again it worked but I immediately noticed how poor the sound quality was on the PC (constant hissing when turning the Volume past half way) & when playing Guitar throigh the PC it sounded horrendous.

I'm picky about sound but I have no idea how to set it up :P I wondered if theres an easier way I might've overlooked, like getting a decent Sound Card for the PC & hooking it all up through that. maybe its something Im doing wrong (like using the wrong cables). or maybe I need to invest allot of money in a really good piece of kit (I honestly have no idea) So if anyone knows of a way to achieve the goal please help!

Thanks for your time
any thoughts/suggestions are welcome :)
 
So USB from PC to device and optical from XBox to device and headphones plugged into device?

That's two digital sources that need decoding at the same time and then mix the two stereo audio streams.

I seriously doubt you'll find anything better than the MixAmp to do this, it's not something ordinary mixers are made for.

Couldn't you just run an optical cable to your optical input on your PC, turn on monitoring and then just use the music player's volume control to match volumes?
All seems a bit too complicated to me :D
 
I'd do what rids suggested, although you'll need a sound card to do it, as motherboards don't have optical input, only output.

A soundblaster Z has optical input, so you could get one of those and connect the Xbox to the input with an optical cable, and play the sound from the console through the sound card.

If you don't have room for a sound card, then you could get an external one. I think the Creative X-Fi Soundblaster 5.1 Pro has optical input as well as output.
 
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Thanks for posting guys, the music thing was just an example, another would be that I preffer to use TS3 on the PC while gaming on the Xbox

also that way of hooking it up is the only one ive ever tried, I dont really care what wires are needed or how its all hooked up as long as the goal of hearing both at the same time in 1 pair of headphones is achieved :D
 
Why would that be any different? You're taking an audio feed via optical from the XBOne and then audio from TS3 on the PC and just using the Windows mixer to mix them into one stream, same as if you were gaming and playing music.

I may be wrong but except for the MixAmp I don't think there is a device out there that does what you want to do, so using the PC & sound card is the only other option.
 
Thanks (I misread the end of your first post, my mistake) that porbably would be a simplar way that I didnt think of (like I said im useless with sound/tech in general :p ) it would be easy enougth to get the volumes right, Ill have a look around for decent Soundcards with Optical when i get home from work tommorro (doing 10 hours shifts right now so kinda sucks :( anyway thanks for posting rids57 :)
 
Wonder if you could get 2 X spdif to rca adapter (£10 each amazon)
Then hook them up to a cheap mixer like the Behringer 802

No idea how it would sound.
 
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