Sound card suggestions needed
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Solved by ShearMe,
Soundstage refers to the separation between instruments, or in gaming, the positionality of the sounds around you. In real life, your ears take sound in stereo, and to determine where tge noise is coming from your brain interprets the delay between sound entering the closer ear and sound entering the furthest ear. So, a good stereo headphone without any reverb or echo effects produced from the enclosure, combined with a good stereo source, and your brain will do all the hard work of guessing the direction of a noise. The exception is complete front/back directionality, because real life rear noises curve around your lobes before you hear them. That's where virtual surround comes in, but most games have the required effects for front/back built in without all the other bulk in most virtual surround effects.What is 'wide soundstage', and how do I look for those headphones? I mean, is it a feature that they write in the box or something?
Unfortunetely, good soundstage in a headphone is just knowledge you have to accumulate from experience and reading reviews. Open headphones typically have a wider soundstage than closed headphones, but not every closed headphone has a weak soundstage. The ATH-AD500, 700, 900, and the 'X' revisions are open, but also have angled drivers and a down-played bass response. All that combined gives them the widest soundstage I've ever heard in a headphone.
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