Is it worth getting an sound card with this headset?

[Guest MarcoTheNoob]

Hello again, humans.

No more stuff aside, lets get to the main thing.

Is it worth getting an Sound Blaster Z, with the Cooler Master MH751 headset?


I will have an MSI B450M Mortar motherboard. 
Said mobo has the REALTEK ALC892 Audio Codec, which from what I heard its pretty meh...

I want to have the best audio quality possible, for the headset itself and the mic, too.

Thanks in advance.

[RobFRaschke]

No.

[Guest MarcoTheNoob]

2 hours ago, RobFRaschke said:

No.

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[Guest MarcoTheNoob]

2 hours ago, RobFRaschke said:

No.

k

[pas008]

only if you want creatives virtual surround but you can  get that or others free

[RobFRaschke]

Now that we have all that out of the way. If you want "the best audio possible for the MIC and the headphones" you're going to need an external DAC and AMP, and not junk ones, just for the headphones side. And an external audio processor/mixer for the mic. All in all, probably $500 of equipment, and you'll likely never be able to tell the difference on a $70 headset. If you were going up to good headphones and a stand-alone mic, you could probably tell the difference, with a $40+ mic and $200+ headphones in having proper processing, but not with your current headset.

[pas008]

35 minutes ago, RobFRaschke said:

Now that we have all that out of the way. If you want "the best audio possible for the MIC and the headphones" you're going to need an external DAC and AMP, and not junk ones, just for the headphones side. And an external audio processor/mixer for the mic. All in all, probably $500 of equipment, and you'll likely never be able to tell the difference on a $70 headset. If you were going up to good headphones and a stand-alone mic, you could probably tell the difference, with a $40+ mic and $200+ headphones in having proper processing, but not with your current headset.

and then again all that is very subjective even the 500 dollars of equipment

[RobFRaschke]

33 minutes ago, pas008 said:

and then again all that is very subjective even the 500 dollars of equipment

Just meant as a vague example of where he'd have to get up to in order to really start making a difference. Sure, there are $100 DACs, and $60-80 headphone amps out there, and MonoPrice actually has a very good mixer board for right about $100, and that would all get him started very nicely, but then he is still hooking a $60 headset up to it. Some kind of condenser mic, and at least something better of a headset would be all but necessary at that point.

 

My whole point was if he's going to start chasing that, it's going to snowball very quickly, so what he's got will be more than good enough for hopping into Fortnite and pwning some noobs.