Originally posted by slo1q
Scarlett is not really designed to be a good playback device, it's meant to be a recording interface.
Most PC DAC/AMP are just an external sound card, equipped with a better digital-to-analog signal converter, than what is in your PC.
All the sounds you hear are generated digitally, then something has to convert it to analog. The better the converter, the better sound you get. Your headphones have a DAC/AMP (the dongle with loudness wheel) but it's not a very good DAC (I know, I've had Could II). And you can't really connect them directly to analog output because they're designed only to work properly with that USB dongle.
You can't really get a better sound out of these because of the way they're designed.
Cloud II is a decent gaming headset and getting a major sound quality improvement would cost you quite a lot of money.
Scarlett is not really designed to be a good playback device, it's meant to be a recording interface.
Highly disagree here. The Scarlet2i2 is designed as a professional audio I/O interface. It has both high quality inputs, plus outputs. It's DAC is of high quality and is perfect for music production and powering audio monitors, where high quality audio and true-to-life reproduction is required. And is grounded very well.
This includes the headphone port, which runs off the same DAC and is used for headphone monitoring.
If u/Hashtwister has a Scarlet available to use, I would highly recommend just using that over anything else.
However, for OP, I would say: If you are using HyperX headphones, you likely won't really notice a difference. Gaming headset...
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