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    Surround sound on headphones

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    It's my understanding that there actually is some HRTF kwakery involved in the CMSS-3D algorithms. True, the effect is not as dramatic, but I wasn't expecting it it to be perfect, since everyone's head/ear configuration is different. Still, it's pretty close to what I was looking for...if you turn it on while listening to music, it literally sounds as if it jumped to the speakers in front of you. :)

    Surround sound on headphones

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    Thanks for the reply, prophet. :D

    I ended up buying an X-Fi XtremeGamer on impulse for $30 on eBay, only afterwards reading the horror stories about people getting horrible sound quality and static due to bad Windows 7 drivers and/or shoddy capacitors. Fortunately, it seems I'm one of the lucky ones -- I've had 0 problems so far, and I'm pretty satisfied with the surround effect. A nice perk as well is that now I can use ALchemy to re-enable surround in the DirectSound3D games that got screwed by the switch to OpenAL in Windows 7.

    Thanks again for the help. Hopefully this info helps someone else out someday!

    Surround sound on headphones

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    Since I don't have the money or space for a 5.1 setup, I've been doing some research on getting simulated surround on headphones. With the right algorithms, it can be done to an extremely convincing degree, as illustrated by

    . From what I've seen so far, the biggest two competing algorithms are Dolby Headphone and Creative's CMSS-3DHeadphone, which are available via special hardware, i.e. sound cards or headphones with integrated processing hardware like these. I was tempted to get a pair of the headphones when they were $70, but I've started to lean towards the sound card route because I can use any pair of headphones with it and therefore could upgrade my buds/cans later.

    So my questions to anyone who might know are as follows:

    1) Is there any alternative that would work with onboard sound (specifically of the Realtek variety)? It would most likely use software processing but I could deal with a framerate hit if it means I can hear where shots and footsteps are coming from.

    2) If not, what's the cheapest sound card I could get that has this functionality? I've heard prophet mention several times that this is one of the only reasons to get a discrete sound card nowadays, so I'm calling you out prophet!

    Sale/Want 3.0

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    Selling EVERYTHING in this pic.

    Reflow'd PS3, 60GB Fully Backwards compatible, first gen

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    Asking for around 400 + shipping for the whole package.

    Wow, really tempted to do this. Kinda sucks that the PS3 is reflowed but the games and GH accessories are worth more than $400 by themselves...

    OCR TF2: Stab stab stab!

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    from a Radeon HD 4500?

    You are aware that the Radeon 4000 series is from the same generation as the GeForce 9000 series?

    The second digit matters a lot - 4500s are low-end cards. The 9500GT is still considered the budget card in the 9000 series, but it's roughly on par with a 4600 Radeon.

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