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There is nothing in your chain that strikes me as obvious, unless you have other playback problems. Music in FLAC or similar sounds awesome doesnt it? If yes, then you probably answered your own problem and I suggest you play around with EQ until me or someone else can try and confirm.
I will say that it sounds ok on a set of DT990 pro's but that the stereo image appears exaggerated (split between channels is extreme), probably for effect.
Cough, or, cough, Genelec.
Soundcard: http://www.soundblaster.com/products/Sound-Blaster-Recon3D-Fatal1ty-Professional.aspx
Headset via Optical: http://www.sony.co.uk/product/home-entertainment-headphones/mdr-ds6500
It all sounds SO REAL!
Eh?
"This proprietary technology allows you to hear your enemies from further away, giving you a distinct tactical advantage in combat."
Yeah, right, cause it's going to rewrite the game's audio engine.
Facepalm.
B&W are meant to sound as pleasing as possible, not as precise as possible. "Precise" in audiophilia means a very different thing from what it means to a studiotech. But you have a point, why would Polks reveal what B&W didnt? (*)
I didnt mean compressed as using a compressor. thats given. I meant compressed down to a lowfi format. That tend to make everything hisss at me from those electrostat tweeters.
(*) On a good hifi setup, a bad mix sounds good. On good studio monitors a bad mix sound absolutely horrifying.
Having played through the game using HDMI from my Titan to my Pioneer SC-57 feeding my RTi A9s and CSi A6 center, etc. it sounded quite good. I certainly noticed some audio that seemed overly compressed but outside of that and the under utilized center channel, I found the audio decent.
It certainly is no Dead Space, Far Cry 3, or Battlefield 3 in the audio department though.
Thats only true to a certain extend. You can make what a studiotech would identify as a very poor mixdown on good monitors and still have it translate fairly well over into caraudio and hifi. Good monitors are revealing, good hifi smooth out the rough.
I don't know the soundcard, I have never heard it, but I also thought it sounded like audiophile voodoo mumbojumbo. How would that even work?