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Your cart is empty.Supercharge your gaming headset with the GameDAC Gen 2's quad-DAC amplifier, supporting Hi-Res Audio and emitting 78% purer signal at a 96KHz/24-Bit resolution for 50x more detailed sound. Enrich your experience on PC with AI noise cancellation and 360° Spatial Audio. The GameDAC Gen 2 is the ultimate base station, allowing easy switching between PC and console without moving cables.
Mikey
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2025
Randomly stopped working, resulted in static hiss, and distortion at higher gains. No physical damage, and no software changes. Just randomly started buzzing.
Retsueto
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2025
If you're new to using digital audio converters, this is a pretty good DAC to start with. You will have to install SteelSeries software to use the audio mixing and tweak it to your liking. Would reccomend if ether starting out or wanting a simpler DAC to set up and use.
ファンタジスタ
Reviewed in Japan on September 23, 2024
Gamedac gen2にPS用とXBOX用があるのが知らず、危うくPS用をを買うところだった。 今のところXboxSeriesXで問題なく作動しています。XboxSeriesX用でこの商品を購入したい人は間違わないように注意してください。
Nico Luna
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2024
Due to Microsoft’s harsh restrictions on unlicensed third-party USB audio devices, I had to choose the GameDAC Gen 2, as there were just a couple options for routing audio from my Xbox to my Hi-Fi system via USB. It’s a decent option if you want to extract audio without needing an expensive HDMI extractor that supports VRR and other features.This DAC works well on Mac for Hi-Res music, which is a nice bonus. However, I noticed a noticeable hiss when there’s no audio and the amplifier gain is turned up, which is disappointing at this price point.As for latency, it’s not that perceptible like some reviewers say unless you’re playing competitive FPS games, which is what this DAC was designed for. It would be nice if they fixed this problem in a future update.Overall, at this price point, it is competing with higher-quality DACs from brands like Schiit and iFi, which offer better performance for a similar cost. I’m giving it 3 stars because while it gets the job done, the price is just too steep considering these issues.
Kokolomendi
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2024
I've owned a few GameDAC Gen 2's, but in the past only used a Steel Series headset with them. This time I wanted one to use with a VZR Model One gaming headset. Normal audio was good, but unfortunately the microphone does not work with it. I had to buy a small (TRRS) extension for the cable because the VZR's (TRRS) 3.5mm jack was too big to fit in the GameDAC. I thought maybe it was the mic cable (I have a few extenders), but it worked fine with my Astro Mixup Pro TR even with the small extension plugged in. I checked all the settings, and researched but saw nothing that would help. This was my only gripe, and in the end was unusable so I ended up returning it.
SAVEGE LAND 47
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2024
It's works great for MW, especially with the sonar. The dac gives a better sound quality with directional sound and clarity. Just make sure you purchase the 3 band 3.5mm headphone jack, so the mic works. Headphones I'm using the on are the Steelseries 9x pc
Troy M.
Reviewed in Canada on May 23, 2024
Worked great with my headset for PS5 and PC
raw77
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
I use this with my corsair gaming PC, and it's flawless in conjunction to the sonar app. Sounds great every which way I'm looking for when playing competitive first person shooters has all the selective profiles for the games that you want to play and even has a FPS footsteps and with my Sennheiser HD 560s it's basically like sound whoring I guess LOL. But in any case I know everything else in life is very subjective to each their own but for me this works for what I wanted to do highly recommend:-).
igxxdvxp
Reviewed in Australia on October 29, 2024
Very happy with everything
Alberto O.
Reviewed in Mexico on April 7, 2024
Lo compre justo por por que habia comprado los arctis nova pro alambricos pero solo traian dac para ps5.Este dac para xbox salio una chulada, funciona perfectamente bien en los headsets que compre y se escucha hermoso
Rachel
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024
Since I use an Xbox series X options that let me use my USB mic and my own pair of IEMs are slim. I've been using the turtle beach option but after a year of just dealing with terrible audio quality I started trying to find other options which led me to this. First off the audio sounds night and day better than turtle beach device. The ESS DAC it has in it I think actually sounds very good along with the amplification. The built in mic button is perfect so far. Only issue I had initially was a ground loop noise with my mic but that's not a fault of this device just a result of both this device and the mic sharing the same power source (the Xbox). Adding a ground loop isolator inline with mic completely got rid of that noise so it's a non issue. In regards to the sound delay I can't perceive it at all. I pretty much only play COD though and at least with that game it has only improved my experience. It could be more pronounced in other games or I simply just can't perceive it so your milage may very.If you're looking into this device I think you should try it and if you happen to notice or be bothered by any sound lag that may or may not happen than you can send it back. Personally I'm thrilled with it as it does everything that I hoped it would.
Noel
Reviewed in Canada on April 10, 2024
I used a Soundblaster X G6 with older gen consoles (PS3,PS4, Xbox One X) since they had optical out and the SBX surround processing gave me almost wallhack-level positional audio cues (via optical connection and dolby digital decoding since a USB connection with consoles wasn't great for the HRTF accuracy) for FPS games (Apex, OW2, WZ2 etc).Since Xbox series X|S and PS5 don't have optical outs, AND Xbox X|S doesn't support unlicensed usb audio devices, AND I need mic input, I picked this dac/amp. I use it with DTS headphone X (sold separately via MS|XBOX store). It's insane how much more accurate DTS headphone X is over SBX G6 for positional accuracy at any setting...to my ears, even over Dolby Atmos headphone (performance mode) for almost every game I've played.Compared to just using the 3.5mm input on the Xbox controller, the Steelseries Gen2 sounds clearer and richer (not muffled). This makes it easier to discern between all the footstep / gun sounds happening in FPS games. So even if you just used the controller input jack with DTS headphones, you can hear directional cues but it's tougher to discern distance because the sound is so muffled without using this dac. But with this dac, I found it much clearer to discern multiple separate sounds from multiple directions (especially when paired with headset with good soundstage like the HD560s or PC38X or )If you pair this dac with a virtual surround HRTF like Dolby Atmos or DTS headphone X, you'll get that EXTRA advantage in sound stage and CLARITY VS just plugging your headphones into the controller. I use Sennheiser HD560S (120 db impedence) with this dac and it's got more than enough power for it. You can pickup a modmic or even cheaper are the cable mic boom cord for Sennheiser headphones ($20).I honestly did not think it was possible to get close to the soundstage/directional cue/clarity I had with the SBX G6 (SBX effect over Dolby digital). You can already get a positional sound advantage just using Dolby Atmos or DTS headphone but if you pair that advantage with a dac like this (if you're on Xbox X|S), you will think that your ears were just cleansed of ear wax and you'll almost always have the preemptive advantage over anyone who just uses the controller jack without HRTF.
drrasii
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023
Main use is connecting headphones to a Zidoo Z9X using USB audio for movie watching. Sounds great. Like the built in preset EQ you can toggle through. Sounds good on Xbox and PS5 as well. If you have multiple systems get this (the Xbox) version, you can use it on Xbox, PC, and PS5. The PS5/PC only version will not work on Xbox.
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