Which headphones of Drop's currently available?
I have some rewards points to burn but there's no obviously good options on Drop right now for headphones Contenders Ultrasone - maybe? I don't own any Ultrasones, so curious. Looks like garbage travel headphone which could be useful also. Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro. - Maybe? I have the DT 880 Good price point, really uncomfortable headphones but could be interesting to try the upgraded version. E-MU - strong contender but $400 is a bad price point for what it is. Which of the above would you choose and why? Nothing else on Drop is relevant to my interests, because Already own 6xx 820 800 s Ether cx Garbage / Consumer grade Meze 99 - garbage bass canons, hard pass No gaming headphones obviously Sennheiser wireless - no to wireless/bluetooth Hifiman - I have 2 of drop hifimans and they make really bad cheap shit on Drop, hard pass on HE-R7DX Aeon - I own the closed, Drop refuses to address #padgate so no reason to buy open Beyerdynamic 177x - wireless, nope Too similar 8x / 560s...
Mar 28, 2024
EDIT: On mine, USB works with no discernible audio lag 95% of the time. I'm fine with this.
The driver install went smoothly, but my audio selection stuff froze afterwards, so I reset the computer. After that, it worked, but Foobar took about 10 seconds to initialize each song--not a good sign. This delay was solved by turning the TEAC off and on again. Not sure what this was all about.
Everything sounded good, so I loaded up Overwatch. There was about a 1 second delay on everything, as others have reported.
I downloaded LatencyMod from http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/solving-dpc-latency-issues/ to try to figure out what was going on. It appears, indeed the USB driver (doesn't seem to be TEAC's problem at all).
I checked to make sure the USB drivers were up to date, then updated to the most recent motherboard drivers.
Reboot 2.
Loaded up a game again, and the latency was reduced slightly, but nowhere close to playable.
I have switched over to the optical out on my computer sound card. The sound seems to be just as good, and there is no latency at all. They sound great, drive my speakers well, and it's great to have the subwoofer output. I'm pleased with the purchase, but can't recommend it to anyone who doesn't have an optical output for Windows 10.
EDIT: On mine, USB works with no discernible audio lag 95% of the time. I'm fine with this.
I will certainly check to see if there are any new updated to my motherboard's USB drivers. It's an ASRock z77 Extreme 4 which still receives fairly regular updates via Microsoft's update service. But, we all know how reliable that can be.