Slimebeast said:
85 Euros didn't feel like a lot of money for this awesome quality. But buying dedicated sound cards for the PC is a thing from the past. Or so I heard, many times. People say that as an ordinary user you just don't need a sound card because on-board audio reached such good quality a few years ago. Only professional musicians need dedicated sound cards, but it's meaningless for ordinary audiophiles and gamers. Specifically I heard that Soundblaster pretty much went out of business or changed their business strategy half a decade ago due to people not needing sound cards anymore. One review said that the later SB card just couldn't improve regular audio sources anymore (like games, movies, CDs), only provide some sort of filtering techniques if you wanted to improve and edit crappy sounds, like filtering unwanted noice from a concert recorded with your mobile phone and stuff like that. Do you have a sound card yourself, vivst? |
Having a separate sound card is ubiquitous if you use cheap $10 - $50 speakers. But if you have quality headphones and/or speakers connected to your PC having a sound card is a must. The DAC quality far exceeds what onboard can give and onboard audio will have noise from the motherboard that is nearly impossible to get of without an add-on card or external DAC.
In your case, you have very high quality headphones that need a better DAC to fully utilize, and if you use a sound card you will have the software's EQ option that can be set by app or universally.
I have a very nice Logitech Z5500 5.1 system for my PC and the difference between using my SoundBlaster Z and my onboard audio is night and day in all applications.
