I'm confused on setting up the Topping D70s for audio and chat on my xbox series x. The audio source (game audio) is not coming from the controller is it? I understand that for chat I'll have to integrate my controller into the chain with the Turtle Beach adapter, but surely I would still be sourcing game audio through optical or hdmi or something right. Wouldn't the controller be a major bottleneck in audio quality? I'm just staring at the pics of the back of the D70s and I'm confused. Thank you
You can set both game and chat audio output to headphones on XBSX Settings.
Turtle Beach adapter is a substantial better DAC than the one on the controller.
Now, if you are using Hi-Fi power hungry headphones the next item in the chain is a Headphone Amplifier which receives analog signals as input, processed (can improve it) and outputting to the headphones. This is one option to keep VRR and
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The best option, sound performance wise, is by using a Hi-Res DAC (D70S in that case) fed by a digital input.
For XBSX Optical SPDIF is the only option, due the lack of this output, we need a HDMI Audio Extractor to get SPDIF out that goes on the SPDIF In of a Hi-Res DAC. However, current audio extractors are
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Headphone Amps can and should receive Analog Inputs (3.5mm, RCA, XLR, etc) to perform.
DAC should receive digital, clean and raw as possible to perform at its best. That's its job turn: digital (10101) in analog signal (sound waves), hence its digital input options like: SPDIF, HDMI-Audio, AES, USB or IIS-LVDS this one in particular communicates directly at hardware level to the DAC chipset is the best way to connect a DAC, it needs a very special dedicated interface, in form of a PC Card with a cable that looks like HDMI connector but is not.
Some DAC's offers an analog Input mostly are pass-through only. A very few had a dedicated ADC (analog-to-digital converter) that turn that analog signal to binary to be processed for the DAC chipset, so you can use EQ or DSP effects... but a limitation of this technology is you always loose quality, detail and resolution when doing the conversion.
Analogy: our DAC is a concert pianist,
Digital input version is pianist using the sheet music score to play the piece.
Analog version will be: pianist trying to play the piece after by memory after hearing it once. Some notes are going to be wrong or missed.
