Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
at first, I tried plugging directly to motherboard and I barely hear footsteps. Then I bought O2 amp, footsteps improved but doesn't solve the entire problem. Bought the usb dac (mine is smsl idea) and magically the problem solved. Footsteps loud and clear, directional sound and accuracy are amazing.
My setup: Pc37x > O2 amp > USB DAC
as for mic, I just plugged it directly to motherboard, no complaint about the quality, although it can't compare to a standalone XLR mic, my teammates thought the voice quality is better than average.
this might help: https://www.soundmaximum.com/best-usb-dac-under-100/
if you wanna try your luck, go for DIY chinese dac/amp under 50 at ebay or aliexpress
downside is that it seems to be dac only, so you might need to buy separate headphone amp.
that said, buying cheap audio stuff is practically relying alot from your luck, you either get hidden gems or just worthless pebbles lol
Maybe it was a design flaw. Original pc373d came with usb soundcard. Probably they weren't tuned to be used with low power output from onboard soundcard. That's my suspicion.
sorry I'm french
Seems good with some positive reviews and recommandation on multiple site. i will try the rain sound this week end. thank you for all the advices guys :) love you... ;)