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New here, but what better place right?

 

I will try to make this quick and easy for you audio pro's..

 

I recently upgraded my 2012 PC build, new case, nice new 980 ti, all the water cooling needed, and new CPU And mobo. I then wanted to investigate this whole "gaming headsets suck" being its using USB.

 

I went and bought a decent pair of Audio Technica headphones and mod mic (home made), open back headphones and frankly was shocked how cool they sounded.. They sounded great :)

 

After a few days I started looking into my motherboards onboard sound and found that it has a separate power connector to power an onboard amp, via molex connector (MSI Gaming 5 z97)

 

ok so all is good, mother board has some soundblaster software, cinema 2 with all the cool simulated surround sound stuff.

 

But I've had that itch to get a sound card because after all everyone still swears its better than almost any onboard.

I finally bought a super cheap one during Amazons (not so great) recent sale,

 

I got the sound blaster omni

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its not really a dac, more of an external sound card.. I wasn't expecting much, honestly, but the first time I plugged it in, I was actually very surprised, I was hearing things in games like World of Warships, BF4 and Witcher 3 that I have not heard, more so the bass on these AUD ATHAD500X headphones actually had some with this little card.

 

I really loved it, I loved the simulated dolby and simulated surround it had, I felt with it off it was not nearly as good.

 

Well after 3 days, it broke :( The mic function or the port was not working, sent it back.

Now that I know a sound card will make a difference I want to get a little better.

 

What do you all recommend? I like the idea of a dac, but honestly, a dac has NO software, so no way to simulate and surround, no way to increase the bass like that little sound blaster software had.

 

But I do like the dac :( maybe one of those fiio dacs with that bass slider? will that allow as much bass as the software possibly?

 

That said, I was looking at the Sound Blaster ZX, has the little external module to control volume or whatnot.. but besides that I know of nothing else that compares, I guess we should talk budget, I don't want to go over 200, 200 bucks being the high end for now.

 

what do you audio snobs think?? /wink

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