People using Headphones for PC Music?

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Howdy,

Is it just me, but setting your Soundcard to headphones setting makes the sound complete pony!

When I set the sound to Headphones on my Audigy 2 and my current x-fi the sound is awful, its sounds like the music is in a box? Why is this? I have to set it to 2/2.1 speakers for it to sound good?

And its not my headphones, I have Sennheiser HD590's and they set me back £150 notes when I bought them a few years back!

I just don't know what creative do with the headphone setting, but its really poor!

Is this just me?

 

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I personaly have a set of surround sound headphones and have them and 5.1 setting and they are the dogs doodads

What cans have you got? And if you don;t mind me asking, how much they set you back?

 

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With headphones like those Senns, you really want a decent stereo sound card and headphone amp.

Whats wrong with the x-fi... thought they where pretty much the best you can get?

And I didn't know there was such thing as a headphone amp... does it just improve the sound to your headphones? Or have I got that all wrong?