Sound advice

spudgun79

spudgun79

spudgun79

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Lo all,

I've recently purchased some Senns, HD555, and have the Xonar DG 5.1

Now I'm mainly playing BF3 at the minute. Thing is when switching on the Dolby Headphone plus the 7.1 it seems to just add a whole lot of echo! I've played around with the settings of the card, plus BF3 and windows sound config but I can't seem to get this "amazing" surround which I keep hearing about.
Anyone else just get echo or is it just my ears?? Anyone else have this set up and tell me what settings they use?

Cheers
 
I think BF3 uses some surround sound processing of it's own, which might reduce how the effective Dolby Headphone is. Someone did mention a setting that he disabled, which improved things. I don't have the game, so I couldn't tell you what that might be.

I think the main culprit is likely to be DH itself. Although, BF3's own sound processing may not help matters, DH can sound like an echo if it's set to DH3.

When I've used DH before, I preferred the middle setting, DH2. DH3 had too much echo for my liking, but DH1 was too close. DH2 was bang on.

Having said that, not everyone likes it on any setting. Best to find out what this BF3 sound processing thing might be, turn if off, then try DH again, see if it's any better.
 
use dolby headphone dh1 close setting for bf 3 it works best for games with there own effects. Thats what I use on my PC 360 sennehisers when playing bf 3 and it sounds superb.
 
I've tried DH1, 2 and 3. And have turned off enhanced stereo mode in BF3 settings. Tried on War Tapes and headphones settings too. DH still always has echo :(
 
BF3 has it's own sound enhancement for stereo headphones. Turn Dolly off on the soundcard. In the BF3 audio settings turn it onto Hi-Fi and also turn on the 'enhanced stereo settings'. Works a treat.
 
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