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[NintendoFan]

Greetings everyone!,

I have some interest in a brand for a headset and was wondering if they would work for the Nintendo Wii U. If so, would they allow for surround sound or virtual surround sound at all?

The brand is as follows:

Sennheiser PC350: http://www.sennheiserusa.com/PC350

If anyone has any recommendations for headsets, please do share! I would like to take advantage of the 5.1 surround sound, or whatever the maximum output is for the Nintendo Wii U console.

Thank you for all your posts!

Sincerely, NintendoFan

Edited by NintendoFan, 19 December 2012 - 12:35 AM.

[9646gt]

There are a couple of good threads going on this. The only way to get surround is with simulated surround created by a receiver like a home theatre. This is mainly because the wii u only sports uncompressed audio and does not support and Dolby prologic or anything like that. So the receiver had to take the audio from the Wii u and then make its own simulated sound such as neo 6 and send that to the headphones.

[NintendoFan]

There are a couple of good threads going on this. The only way to get surround is with simulated surround created by a receiver like a home theatre. This is mainly because the wii u only sports uncompressed audio and does not support and Dolby prologic or anything like that. So the receiver had to take the audio from the Wii u and then make its own simulated sound such as neo 6 and send that to the headphones.

Hello 9646gt,

Ahhh I see. Sometimes it takes that alternate explanation to finally get it haha. Thank you for your multiple explanations and patience!

So it seems like no matter what, I will need to purchase a receiver. Just which receiver is the question.

Take care!

Sincerely, NintendoFan

[Crimson_Engage]

I wonder if my Turtle Beach X12's would work?

[9646gt]

Hello 9646gt,

Ahhh I see. Sometimes it takes that alternate explanation to finally get it haha. Thank you for your multiple explanations and patience!

So it seems like no matter what, I will need to purchase a receiver. Just which receiver is the question.

Take care!

Sincerely, NintendoFan

You are more than welcome! I am so OCD it isn't even funny lol. I would look at the Onkyo ht-s3500 receiver. I just bought it tax free and with free shipping on amazon. I got it for $249 shipped and it sounds amazing. It's actually a pretty advanced receiver so it was tricky to set up to my OCD liking lol. But 249 for a receiver and all speakers is not bad. Yeah the sub woofer is passive but it will be fine for the new few years for me. It also has 4 hdmi inputs and supports the wii perfectly! It is only like 660 watts and sounds night and day better than my sony 1000w it replaced

I wonder if my Turtle Beach X12's would work?

They will work but only in stereo if plugged in the wii u gamepad. To get surround sound simulation from them you would need to plug them into a receiver that will convert to Dolby Pro logic or similar. Turtle beach sells a box that I am pretty sure will turn the stereo into Dolby Pro Logic II as that is what mine came with.

http://www.turtlebeach.com/product-detail/dolby-processor-accessories/ear-force-dss2/33 You SHOULD be able to plug this into the gamepad and get dolby surround headphone processing for pretty damn good simulated surround with any turtle beach headphones

[Crimson_Engage]

Oh what the hell. I'll just use the TV speakers and buy a headset just to communicate.

[GabCM]

I'd like to use my Astro A40 headset on my Wii U, but it doesn't have any optical audio output.

Not that I always use the Astros. In fact, I use my Audio-Technica ATH-M50 when I play alone. I use my Astros when I want to talk over a mic.

Edited by GabCM, 19 December 2012 - 09:39 AM.

[Gamejunkie]

There are a couple of good threads going on this. The only way to get surround is with simulated surround created by a receiver like a home theatre. This is mainly because the wii u only sports uncompressed audio and does not support and Dolby prologic or anything like that. So the receiver had to take the audio from the Wii u and then make its own simulated sound such as neo 6 and send that to the headphones.

Like I responded to you in one of the other threads I don't think that's going to work.

[9646gt]

Like I responded to you in one of the other threads I don't think that's going to work.

According to Dolby's website since the turtle beach DSS supports pro logic llx and Dolby headphone if toy Holm the box up to the game pad and plug the head phones into that box it will use r the DSP to convert it to simulated 5.1 and pass it off to the Dolby headphone DSP which will play the simulated surround to the headphones.it may not be the best but its hard to say that it won't work when that is exactly what the technology is designed to do