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Alexinhooooo
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Good afternoon.

I've already posted something about this subject, but I want to be 100% sure if the AT AD500X are really worth it. I want good soundstage for gaming, like if some player is running in that position, I hear him running in THAT position. I also f*cking love some strong bass, but for now I think I'm gonna go with the gaming part. (And by the way is the bass THAT bad in the AD500X?) So what I really wanted to know is: are these headphones worth it? I've found them for like 70€ which seem pretty reasonable.

Thanks for all your answers in advance.

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Headphones are great and all, but they can be pretty limited by your actual sound card. Audiotechnica headphones are generally really good, my dad has a pair and loves them. 

 

As for sound cards, I got a cheap Asus DGX because no 5.1 audio for motherboard, audio was much improved on headphones as well (even cheap ones sound better). This is all imo tho, some people would probably fite me on whether or not dedicated sound cards are still worth it.

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Just now, Eastman51 said:

Headphones are great and all, but they can be pretty limited by your actual sound card. Audiotechnica headphones are generally really good, my dad has a pair and loves them. 

 

As for sound cards, I got a cheap Asus DGX because no 5.1 audio for motherboard, audio was much improved on headphones as well (even cheap ones sound better). This is all imo tho, some people would probably fite me on whether or not dedicated sound cards are still worth it.

I got a Z170 Pro Gaming Carbon and I heard these 'recent motherboards' have good AMPs and DACs. These headphones have an impedance of like 48 Ohms or something like that, do you think it would be necessary to buy dedicated hardware?

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12 minutes ago, Alexinhooooo said:

I got a Z170 Pro Gaming Carbon and I heard these 'recent motherboards' have good AMPs and DACs. These headphones have an impedance of like 48 Ohms or something like that, do you think it would be necessary to buy dedicated hardware?

Its probably not necessary. I would, but you don't have to. 48 ohms is decent, but there are better; and far far worse

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Compaq Presario 5000 - Pentium 4 1.7Ghz, 1.7GB SDR, PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro (Windows XP x86 Pro)
Compaq Presario 8772 - Pentium MMX 200Mhz, 48MB PC66, 6GB Quantum HDD, "8GB" HP SATA SSD adapted to IDE (Windows 98 SE)

Asus M32AD - Intel i3-4170, 8GB DDR3, 250GB Seagate 2.5" HDD (converting to SSD soon), EVGA GeForce GTS 250, OEM 350W PSU (Windows 10 Core)

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*ITX Box* - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/r36s6R (Windows 10 Education)

Dell Dimension XPS B800 - Pentium 3 800Mhz, RDRAM

In progress projects:

*Skylake Tower* - Pentium G4400, Asus H110

*Trash Can* - AMD A4-6300

*GPU Test Bench*

*Pfsense router* - Pentium G3220, Asrock H97m Pro A4, 4GB DDR3

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