Genius 5.1 Surround Drivers Download !FREE!
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Genius is proud to announce its latest high-end offering for gamers with a premier gaming headset providing immersive audio that is light-weight in an aggressive design. The HS-G680 surround sound gaming headset is a 7.1 multi-channel device that enables gamers to hear and feel audio on a totally new level, adding realism to the experience, making you feel the intensity of the games you play.
Be part of the action with the immersive 50mm drivers and incredible surround sound for a lifelike experience as it feels just like you are in a battle. Hear footsteps, gauge distance and direction and detect sneaking enemies with great positional and spatial rendering from HS-G680. Keep the sounds to yourself and game while people around you talk without bothering you.
Iconic 50mm drivers deliver outstanding audio performance for accurate positional sounds making it easier to pinpoint enemies. The 7.1 multi-channel virtual surround technology envelopes the user in the sound of the battlefield, immersing gamers in an experience like being in the game itself. Built-in noise-cancelling shuts out background noise so you stay focused in your game. Let your teammates know what's coming and call your plays with the crystal clear microphone which is fully adjustable to ensure clear communication with your team.
Aggressive Gamer Style
The honeycomb LED pattern in black and red gives notice when you are gaming, highlighting the revolver-style on the ear cups. Pressing on the earcups activates the illumination meaning you're set for battle.
Premium Comfort
For extended gaming sessions, HS-G680 uses soft over-ear paddings for the earcups and a lightweight self-adjusting headband for a great fit anytime. The earcups cover the entire ear and provides great comfort even in tense gaming situations. The self-adjusting and lightweight headband makes sure its always the right fit and doesn't add stress to your neck making you focus on your game during extended gaming sessions.
Excellent Build Quality
From the comfort to the build, the HS-G680 is built to last with great construction. The high-performance braided-cable is wear-resistant and will endure the daily use and abuse of gamers. The inline controller built into the cable making it accessible and easy to reach when you need it with built-in controls for volume and microphone, you are in full control. The extra length cable gives ample length so you can have some slack when routing your cable anywhere on your PC.
The software after installing is located in the control panel. It comes with a wide variety of options to play with. The software provides a visual representation of where the speakers are virtually around you. The visual interface allows either click and drag speakers around the person if you want certain channels to sound closer or further away or manually type in the desired volume differences. If 7.1 surround sound is too much for you then the software also allows you to select 5.1 or 2.1 sound as well.
7.1 surround sound is similar to 5.1 surround you have front center, left, and right channels. In 5.1 surround sound the rear splits into 2 channels, but in 7.1 surround sound the rear is split into 4 distinct channels. This gives you a full 360 degree very detailed sound quality that is quite advantageous in the gaming world. Aside from gaming there are a variety of movies that have been remixed to 7.1 surround sound and if you dont own a full 7.1 surround sound theatre in your living room this would definately be a good alternate choice to use.
I chose a variety of games to test out from different genres. Starcraft 2 supports 7.1 surround, I found the sound quality was excellent, the perception of distance and the direction of commotion was spot on which enabled me to distinctively identify what is happening in areas off my current view screen without having to actually look. Sounds can be heard in any direction in a 360 degree radius. By circling around a battle I was able to tell where the fight was happening with my eyes closed.
Firefall is an FPS MMORPG although the game itself is still in beta I chose to test some things out. First of all in firefall you are able to fly around on jumpjets for a very short period of time but immediately the jump jets sounded as though they were actually beneath me when I used them, they have just enough bass for the rumble feature to kick in and create a faint vibration and deep bass which added to the realism to the game. The game has swarms of creatures spawning around you constantly the 7.1 channel surround was definately a plus here as pursuing monster spanws sources could be distinctively identified just by sound alone.
Diablo 3 proved to sound more bloodthirsty and violent then it looks on screen, the vibration and sound detail combined with the astounding visual graphics made this game very entertaining. The 7.1 surround enabled me to use ranged attacks on monsters that I could not yet even see with accuracy, which is pretty useful since ranged player characters tend to die in 1 hit during late game so the more distance between you and the enemy the better.
I chose to test out a bluray movie called The Avengers which has been mastered in DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround to get the full effect of watching a movie with the Cavimanus. DTS-HD Master Audio is the most common bluray audio format which typically contains 8 sound channels each with audio playback at 192khz per channel, sound at this quality is virtually lossless in playback. If there were ever a movie to test in 7.1 surround this would be the one, from the very start of the film rumbling bass catches your attention and sounds can be heard from several sources. The movie does not over exaggerate the surround sound as I had first anticipated it might, I would have to say the Cavimanus enhanced the quality of the movie.
cant find it in english BUT looking at pictures it looks like its rca's for surround input...so coming from a computer youd need 3 x 3.5mm to rca cables....the 3.5 input is for hooking up like a phone or ipod type stuff
They have a 3.5mm Aux port as well, but that's for plugging in stuff like a phone to play some music. The vast majority of cheap speaker sets with an Aux port will only play 2.0 stereo through it, unless it has some sort of virtual surround matrix mode - which is a mode that can be switched on and off.
but you need to understand...even with 5.1. music (mp3's) is in stereo..you will get the front 2 speakers and most likely the sub unless you switch the sound in the computers sound options to simulate surround to use all speakers.
Once you have downloaded your new driver, you'll need to install it. In Windows, use a built-in utility called Device Manager, which allows you to see all of the devices recognized by your system, and the drivers associated with them.
Despite the weak bass, I was pleasantly surprised that the virtual surround sound was definitely working. I tried the game both using the Dolby virtual 5.1 as well as the virtual 7.1 speaker setup in the main HS-04U audio menu. While in game, I selected the appropriate speaker set-up in the audio options.
5) Once this is done fire up iTunes or your favorite music app and you should have standard audio coming from the speakers hooked up to the X-Fi plus you will have 5.1 surround audio for surround-enabled audio sources
5) Once you are satisfied with the settings, double or right-click the "Multi-Output Device" and set it as the sound device and enjoy sound from your surround speakers and the built-in speakers at the same time!
I have noticed in a couple of movies that I've watched that I had to switch to the dedicated SB X-Fi Surround device to get actual surround sound. Looks like it's a function of which Dolby/THX encoding is used on the movie I am watching. Pretty easy to toggle back and forth and I don't have to restart anything to change the audio output.
I am so glad to see this. I'm new to Mac's, just recieved my imac 27" and I have an older logitech z-640 5.1 surround speaker system that works awesome (have been using it on older pc's and has true 5.1 with the proper card) that I wanted to use, so far, no way, until I found this post. I'll order the Creative X unit and give it a go. Thanks again Vegas7!!! I'll try and report back when I have the unit hooked up.
I have a Hercules USB sound card that will drive my speakers (I can get to the speaker config - they all test fine), but only the L/R ones are in use when itunes plays. Don't care about movies (I never watch movies on the mac - but I DO want full surround sound from my logitech X-530. Under boot camp - they sound great. Under Mac osx - they are 2.0 speakers ;-(
Well, I gave up on getting my Mac to upconvert 2ch into 5. Replaced my X-530s with Z506 speaker which do the upconversion in speaker. They sound great. They work in true 5.1 with my cheapo USB sound card (Hercules), but for the most part, I am just listening to tunes - in full rich surround. Simple.
Haven't tested movie surround sound yet (The 5.1 speaker sound tests are all working - so 5.1 with a movie should be fine) - but just to sit and get some proper decibels through iTunes is enough to make me write a thank-you.
I am following these steps on my macbook air os 10.10 with creative sound blaster x fi surround 5.1 pro, my problem is that all the speakers work when test in the configuration window, but only a select few speakers work when actually playing music. Here is an image of my setup
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