Motherboard with clean audio

[Hieb]

I got myself a HyperX Cloud headset and all the reviews say it has a super clean mic, but I found the mic was really quiet unless I cranked up the input volume, at which point there was a lot of static background noise. I've been told that there's a good chance that my motherboard just has shitty audio interface.

I'm using a Gigabyte Z97X-SLI board... so if anyone has suggestions on either motherboards with cleaner audio input and output (I have some static for very loud bass, such as explosions and sometimes during vocaloid music) or other things I can do (perhaps some sort of external device or even a sound card, if it'll work) to get better audio that'd be great!

[Lolzious]

The mic on it is terrible. I was going to buy it, but the microphone on my 2011 tablet is cleaner, so I use that.

You're motherboard audio is fine. If you were going to invest any money in audio, I'd get an external AMP/DAC

[paprikman]

The mic on it is terrible. I was going to buy it, but the microphone on my 2011 tablet is cleaner, so I use that.

You're motherboard audio is fine. If you were going to invest any money in audio, I'd get an external AMP/DAC

I use external mic pre-amp, built in the sound mixer, since I don't take any non-XLR mics.

So yeah, any asus ROG mobo's will have better sound/mic.

[Guest Kloaked]

Those shouldn't give you shitty bass. There may be a setting on some sound software for your board that you may have installed that's causing that (that's if you have any installed, you should check).

 

But yes, the mic on the Clouds isn't great. I use the cheap Zalman mic that some people would recommend within headphone combo's and it's lightyears better.

[-iSynthesis]

That motherboard shouldnt have bad audio to be honest. You could get an external sound card or somethign simmilar and try it though.

[Hieb]

Those shouldn't give you shitty bass. There may be a setting on some sound software for your board that you may have installed that's causing that (that's if you have any installed, you should check).

 

But yes, the mic on the Clouds isn't great. I use the cheap Zalman mic that some people would recommend within headphone combo's and it's lightyears better.

 

Crap, all the reviews I read said it had a really good mic, so I figured it was my board.

Okay so I should just get a better microphone... something like a modmic?

 

And my board only has the realtek thing that came with it and I don't have any custom settings on. The sound just gets very crackly during the types of noises that are very loud (like very high pitched or low pitched things, like i said such as explosions or vocaloid music at times)... possibly it just has a bad connection as it seems really weak where the cable connects to the left ear cup... if I poke at it I get some static and it slides back and forth a bit.