The only “downside” for a gaming roundup is that it’s quite forward, so you don’t get that massive soundstage expansion like you do with other amplifiers that deliver that by default. Overall for the price point the sound is absolutely impressive. That basically gives you a really cool way to personalize your open headphones to sound a bit more bass-y and slightly sharper or remove some of that bass and treble from your closed headphones depending on what type of sound signature you prefer. Yes you can easily add bass and destroy the entire lower end, but because we have that fine adjustment you can just add a little bit or remove a little bit in either the high-end or the low-end of the spectrum. From an audio perspective this thing is impressive, it has a lot of power to drive my HD 58X and beyond headphones with slightly lower sensitivity and high impedance, and being able to control the treble and bass is actually quite intuitive. There is a 5V DC input that is required for operation, even when you have the PC USB plugged in.

The headphone jack is at the front with 3 input selections of USB, optical, and RCA inputs, which is quite nice at this price point. The knobs have tactile steps while the main volume wheel is really nice and smooth.

Audio mixer for pc gaming