Video review of the Turtle Beach Earforce DSS Please visit www.turtlebeach.com for more information Please comment Please follow me on Twitter @ www.twitter.com Please visit www.mlgpro.com for my written reviews on headsets So the DSS is Turtle Beach's answer to Astro Gaming's Mixamp. It is a dolby headphone decoder unit that adds virtual surround sound to any stereo headphone or headset for 90 dollars while Astro's Mixamp sells for 130 dollars. So the DSS is more of a mixamp for those with budget in mind. But as with everything, you're getting what you pay for. There are some differences in features between the Astro Mixamp and the Turtle Beach DSS. - Virtual surround sound is the same. Turtle Beach advertises the DSS as a 7.1 decoder, but optical signals cannot transfer over 5.1. What Turtle Beach does here is emply Dolby Pro Logic IIx that takes 2 channels from the 5.1 signal and then duplicates them(matrixes them) to add 2 more channels. So it's sort of like you have 2 more speakers playing the exact same sound as the other speakers are playing, doesn't really provide another cue of positioning. In any case, I refer to this kind of processing as "virtual virtual 7.1". So like I say in the video, performance between the DSS is comparable to the other popular decoders out there today. -While the Astro Mixamp has Coaxial, RCA, and optical inputs, the DSS only has an optical input and a 3.5mm input. If you got an RCA to 3.5mm adapter, you could connect your system to the ...
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