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so the manual for the MixAmp basically says 'stop using if your ears bleed.' Am I the only one bothered by warnings like that? How safe is this ****?

Yeah, I think the change is that the TX unit essentially remains on once you turn it on and remains off once you turn it off... manually.

This was my understanding but based on a very small amount of feedback. I do not stand behind this assertion with any conviction. I will be able to provide better feedback once I get the new TX unit.

Let's wait and see...

I specifically asked this question of Astro and they confirmed that it would charge the eneloops. I personally don't see any reason to buy their battery as it's likely just a plastic shell around two rechargable double As.

Weird, my mixamp battery pack is still going strong after 1.5 years. *shrug*

Have a lot of people had issues with those gen 1 packs?

I have the 5.8's with Eneloops and have not seen where the RX recharges the battery. I will admit I only tried this one, and left the RX plugged up via USB (into my cable box) overnight and it did not charge.

At the time, I didnt have the time or patience to investigate what was wrong. I simply went back to using the Eneloop factory charger and have been recharging that way since. FWIW my cable box has no problem charging any other device via USB (to include iPhone, PS3 controller, Xbox Controller, old wired mixamp) so I do not see why it would have a problem correctly powering the RX.

Be advised that the RX eats Eneloop charges though, I dont play nearly as much as other guys but I find myself recharging the batteries about once ever 2 weeks. Part of that can be attributed to me being lazy and using the auto-off feature (30 mins of no activity). I've been trying to correct that bad habit to gain better battery life. Maybe i'll give the RX recharging ability another try in the future.

I'd have to say yeah you're pretty alone on that one. With all of the lawsuits going these days, every company prints legal disclaimers to protect themselves. Even McDonald's puts a legal advisor on their coffee cups to say that the coffee is hot.. no shyt sherlock.

The mixamp's output is no more extreme than any other mp3 player and headphone output jack you'd find on other devices. Meaning the sound it puts out is very normal and not at all overwhelming. That warning is simply to say if your ears are bleeding, dont blame us.. blame your ears.

My mixamp battery pack is still going strong too. In fact I've never heard of a complaint about the battery pack until now. And even still thats a single incident.

All indications would point to a bad set of batteries, rather than extensive problem with the charging or design.

You know whats crazy.. I leave almost all of my electronic shyt on.

My DVR cable boxes never cut off, my Macbook also never cuts off (although I do close the lid to make it sleep, it stays plugged in 24/7). Even my old wired Mixamp was never cut off (you could see the red glowing light on the tv cabinet). I also have a cable modem, Apple router & AppleTV that all stay on 24/7. And finally I have 2 plasmas.. a 5 year old 50" Vizio in the living room, and a 42" 1 year old in the bedroom. Either TV is on, the entire time Im at home.. and I often fall asleep with the TV on.

Granted I have a very small apt (590 sq/ft) but I just got my latest electric bill and only used 223 kilowatt hours for the entire month. In other words the bill was only $30 bucks. And that includes running the electric fan that centrally circulates the gas heat.. all in the middle of winter.

All of that is to say, many of todays electronic devices must be incredibly efficient. I also realize that while Im lazy.. I do take advantage of a digitally controlled thermostat that cuts off the heat during the day and also use many auto-off features and auto-sleep features on my devices. The Xbox, PS3, Macbook, A-TV.. even the DVR's have an auto-sleep feature that cuts them off (or puts them into a sleep mode) after a certain amount of time. I also use the sleep timer with the TVs.

The adapters arrived today and I got to say while the PC 350's Xense edition improve the sound quality using the 720amp. The bottleneck like shin and general said it's definitely the source(DD 5.1 48khz). When I plug the 720 with the Xonar xense sound card with 2ch or 8ch PCM @ 192khz they improve so much it's ridiculous, of course the senn's sound improve even better but I got say I've never though the 720 headset could sound that good. I'll do more testing later...

finally got that $2 hong kong clip on mic in the mail today. only took a month hopefully it's a decent solution.

did come in packaging though..I remember reading about someone getting theirs and a piece had come off in the mailer

Yo guys, I just got my AX 720 and the sound output is uneven at low amp volume. Sound is faint on the left cup compared to the right cup. Sound evens out at higher amp volume.

Anyone else have this issue with their AX 720? Is this normal or a defect?

How low are we talking? Many cheaper "amps" will be uneven in the first few percentages of the volume . if its past 10% I'd say call it a lemon and a day

I'm guessing you don't live on the first floor....

Got my PC360's today and ran home at lunch to give them a very brief test. I only played BO and only a couple matches but so far I'd say they seem very precise and have a fairly good ability to isolate various actions happening in different regions of the map in the proper location and without over or under emphasis.

Listening to the audio in the opening trailer clips I immediately noticed significant deficiencies in overall fidelity compared to my D5000. It had me very worried at first listen but their performance thus far in MP seems to be pretty good. I've yet to test the mic but I messed with the volume and mixamp volume and would say that they are somewhat hungrier than I'd anticipated. Even plugging them into my Meier Concerto I had to crank the amp volume up to about 1 o'clock! The mixamp drove them ok but I was hoping to have a bit more breathing room with the volume. The comfort was pretty good, actually felt like I was wearing my old HD590's. The clamp is a bit much but they should ease up a bit in time.

Later this weekend I will do some more testing with blops MP, Reach, and maybe some MOH to get a more grounded impression formed but initially I'd say these seem like a winner for any multi-player gaming but would be a pass for any campaign stuff as I'd reach for my D5000 first.

Yup extremely power hungry!

Yeah it seems to be within the first 10%.

Anyone else noticed this in their AX 720?

Have you ever seen Tommybwoy's work? He's a user from MLG who started modding headphones into headsets. Really great work. He can even do native 4-pole termination.



http://forums.majorleaguegaming.com/...hd595-mic-mod/

Surprised at the comments about the PC360s being hard to drive. You guys must like to play with the volume REALLY loud!! I'm coming from the 702s which were pretty hard to drive and I find that the PC360s provide all the volume I need with a lot of headroom left on the mixamp.

Are we talking about the 720 amp or the inline controller itself? I haven't notice anything, I use the amp volume all the way up and use the inline controller to adjust the volume. Tried to use 10 or 15 clicks on the box volume button but it didn't make any difference, I did notice that the inline volume control is very sensitive as I get from very low to very "loud" a bit to easy.

I think I've settled on the PC360 after reading the entire thread. Can somebody hit me up with the link for the $180 price?

Thanks

his work is so-so... SWZ here on avs does better work.


pads look just like my stock pads

I just finished trying all of this, bought the required cable this afternoon:

3.5mm into AX720 headphone jack, 2xRCA into the back of the reciver L+R DVD IN.

Then headphones directly into reciever headphone jack.

At first it was quite difficult to decide if it was working or not. Receiver decodes almost all the very latest codes. For the DVD input, all that I could switch was between DIRECT and STEREO. As far as I could tell (there's a bit of a delay between the switch so you can't really hotswap the sound in real time), there was no difference. Overall again at first, it seemed to sound "right" (DD 5.1). Switching off all the AX720 amp's settings there was a noticeable difference. Switching back one to headphone DD, and setting the receiver DVD to STEREO and flipping through the recievers own simulation (run of the mill: jazz, club, mono, all channel stereo, matrix etc. etc), those all could be heard when in STEREO. Switching to DIRECT. None of them worked.

1. DIRECT mode displays just ANALOG on the receiver display.

2. DIRECT mode from the TV ( HD + DD cable box) displays DIGITAL DOLBY STEREO

This is all when the headphones in the receiver of course.

I'm not sure what that means, if the AX720 is also a DD source why is the receiver interpreting it as ANALOG when direct?

As I say it seems to work at time of listening, sounds good but not quite sure if it is.....

until plugging everything back into the AX720 directly

Night and day. No comparison whatsoever after that, crystal clear that that is pure 5.1 DOLBY HEADPHONE surround coming out of the AX720 into the headphones.

So I am thinking unless I try other inputs on the reciever, that unless Dolby Headphone is built into the receiver, it simply won't work. Or at least it's close enough that if you never heard it before or from a decoder amp like AX720 or other, you'd think it was fine. Very very close but no cigar.

edit: I'm now at the stage where I may have to get an amp, watched a lot of 5.1 movies and some definitely needed a lot more power to make watching them worth while (action vs drama), most you can get away with but a few I found myself muttering damn thing needs to be louder!

The input into your receiver IS analog and NOT digital. The headphone output is always analog (headphones are analog devices after all.)

Does the AX720 amp have "enough to drive" the akg k702 ?