Audio pass-through the DS4 is amazing

I didn't realize how simple this was. When they said any headset works I thought it was meant for chat. All you have to do is connect your Audio Technica's, Ultimate Ears, SOL Republics, BOSE, V-MODAs, BEATS by DRE phD, or whatever headphones you have, to the Dual Shock 4 and have all game audio pass through the controller and you have high quality surround sound. And if they have a mic (many do now for cell phones) the mic works for chat as well.

LOL @ gaming headsets. Get yourself some high quality cans or IEMs that you can use for music and the ps4

Yeah, man

How do you set all game audio to headset?

was thinking of getting this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826306009 are they worth it

Wasn't evident to me at first, that's why I'd like to aware some people, because I know a lot of people have nice headphones these days.

Hold down the PS button ->Adjust Devices -> Output to Headphones -> All Audio... There is a master control for volume there as well and most games should have options for adjusting audio and chat volume

Not sure man. If you are going to use them for Xbox as well it might be worth it. Personally I would opt for some real headphones

well i was thinking of getting the mix amp and some sennheiser headphone but thought i might be better to get a headset so I can chat more easily just not sure of the quality of the astro headset

@Couth_: Interesting, trying it out with my Pulse Elite as we speak

Waste my DS4's battery on amping my headphones? Sounds like any audiophile's nightmare. My butt could produce higher quality sound than the DS4 port.

Yeah the battery is pretty weak as is. Luckily it uses a standard micro USB.. If the PS4 is too far you can connect it to any outlet or even a PC USB port while playing. The Bluetooth transfer rate provides plenty of bandwith for high quality audio. How about you try it before sticking things up your butt

I highly doubt that.

That's all i've been using since the day ps4 came out. Its damn amazing with my sennheiser hd558's but batteries die in under 5 hours

How about you make a youtube video out of it and cut me some of the residuals for awaring you

You guys are seriously just now finding this out?

Hows the quality? Surely it's just stereo or is this a full on feature of the console, can it do 5.1 or 7.1 or do the quality of the speakers themselves do all the work with their built in electronics?

I knew this kind of thing worked but to what extent, battery life being drained due to having to power two extra speakers and transmit and receive more data? The reason I ask is curiosity and laziness(can't be bothered looking it up plus making a thread on it should mean the details are provided). So any info would be much appreciated!

This solves battery life problems http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-A-Male-A-Female-Extension-Meters/dp/B001TH7GUU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388280033&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+extension

posted wrong pic and link

if only the DS4 would last 30 hours like DS3 does... Sony fucked up on that one...

Yes Im still butthurt about that :/

Lol...Bluetooth transfer rate doesn't mean shit. If you don't even know what a DAC is, you shouldn't be talking about audio dingus. If you want shit audio quality, feel free to use your DS4 port. Its DAC, one of the most important factors of audio quality, is probably some $3 chip that does the bare minimum for audio playback quality (because it was made for voice communication). I don't know how you people manage to breath being so ignorant of the technology you use.

This thread is embarrassing. Really. I should go post this on the AVSForums, they'd have a field day with this.

@KHAndAnime: #WeGotABadassOverHereMeme

Is this an audiofile forum? Go ahead and post it and have a circle jerk with your audiofriends dingus.. The percentage of you losers that actually have audio equipment to take advantage of lossless audio is irrelevant. You are irrelevant

For the rest of us - Anyone who has $50-$300 headphones laying around could make use of this and it will sound better than 99% of TV sets or USB "gaming headsets" at no extra cost to the gamer. gtfo

@KHAndAnime: why are people like this on the internet? Are you like this in real life, a person that s***s on someone's happiness? The guy likes the feature, and based on this small thread he is not alone. If you want to have better audio quality do whatever it is you want.

Ah the good old youtube angle. Seems people can't respond to me properly anymore without bringing it up.

Didn't you just talk about irrelevance a couple of posts up?

There's no angle.. There isn't really a way for me to respond to your post except for saying "Try it".. and while you are at it might as well make a youtube video out of it know what im saying?

Now there's a proper way of responding.

I will try it.... as soon as I get a PS4. I have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990 pro 250 Ohm headphones to try on it and if it can drive those then you'd be onto something

It's a shame my headphones are a bit crap, still i'm thinking of picking up a gaming headset anyway, maybe some Turtle Beach PX4's, shame the selection is quite slim for confirmed to be PS4 compatible headsets.

Would be good to know if those worked. I'm more into IEMs myself but I tried it with my girlfriends v-moda crossfades at 32 ohm and the sound was blasting. They were nice because they also have a built in mic for chat.. As far as I know there isn't a way to tune the audio, so something bass heavy out of the box probably works best for most games, unless you could amp the controller

It's a nice addition nonetheless and it's good to know you don't need "Sony" headphones or special ones to make it work

I'll give it a try the next time I'm playing KZ:SF.

wow! this is awesome! now I can play at night with decent sound and don't have to worry waking up the wife and baby

Yeah I find that very hard to believe as well. I imagine it'll sound fine, but no different to those gaming headsets, and like you said later on, if you've got tough to power headphones I imagine it'll be very quiet.

It's certainly a nice feature though since it allows you to bypass the inconvenience of wires or having to sit close to your TV but still get to use headphones, not if they bring back support for USB mics they'll be all set in the sound department.

yeah but because of all that the battery life is a joke

@Couth_: a very overlooked feature, i bought a pair of wireless headphones because of late night x360 gaming session but battery is poor on them. this feature is god send

yeah...tried it out on my friend joes ps4 and it leaves much to be desired.

1. ds4 battery life is stupidly low, that shitty gimmick sixaxis, touch pad, light...etc should have been axed and a 100 hour life lithium thrown in that thing and it would have only cost the consumer 30 bucks.

2.Its obvious the bandwidth is pushing it with pass through sound, I noticed clear lag and distortion at times.

Its yet again another gimmick Sony shoved into the ds4 good thing every thing else about the ds4 was grand such as ergonomic design *finally* and the other upgrades over the shitty old dual shock design.

There is so much bullshit in this post. A gimmick sony isn't even touting or advertising? lmao. There is no distortion or lag. Bandwith is not pushing it with pass through sound. Even 320kbps mp3 which is indistinguishable from FLAC for most would only take up a fraction of the bandwidth through the DS4's bluetooth connection. There is plenty of bandwidth for even higher quality sound. You don't even have any friends

I've been playing battlefield for hours with this set up. I can hear a pin drop from 20 metres away in the exact direction. The feature is glorious

So? Wii U has this feature...

Yeah it's nice say if you're playing on the TV and then people enter the room and either you don't want them to interrupt your gaming or vice versa so it's nice to just plug in headphones where you're sitting and play away

But I imagine it's an audiophiles nightmare to listen to.

Used it with my Sony Pulse Elite headset, everything works fine, good audio and surround sound quality too. Could pick out which direction enemy boots and fire were coming from clearly but that is after i tweaked the settings on my headphone though

Plugging your headphones into a nil-amp'd, $5 DAC is the best way of making your headphone sound like garbage. If you want your headphones to sound like utter crap, plug them into your DS4. You don't have to be an audiophile to tell the difference, you simply have to be deaf to not tell the difference. My Grado SR-225i's for example, plugged into the DS4, has ZERO soundstage and ZERO bass compared to having it plugged into my receiver. There is simply is no driving power in the DS4's port.

If you want waste your headphone potential like a dingus, do this. You talk about "high quality" in your OP, but you're not getting high quality sound through that port no matter what headphones you use. There are much better ports than your controller's headphone port. It wasn't made to deliver high quality sound.

@Couth_: williamRLBaker said there is lag. End of conversation.

Obviously. Obviously. Obviously if you have a receiver this isn't for you. Didn't know you were so slow I had to spell it out for you.. . High quality is relative. This beats TV speakers and it beats gaming headsets. i'm not saying it beats a home theatre set up you dingus. That goes without saying. Where did I say this beats a receiver? I said only that it beats headsets. gtfo and have a wank over your sound system. Very few people have headphones that need to be driven by an amp. And if you do, all your devices need to be driven by an amp. Conversely most people buy IEMs and cans that don't need an amp and this is class for them. You don't need an amp for high quality sound.. Audio elitists are the worst smh

You don't need a receiver - a TV's audio-out port would also be a much better option than the DS4 controller. Most wireless gaming headsets would even sound better than any headphones plugged into the DS4.

Those are nice, but these puppies here are the best I've seen... Eff me headphones if I ever seen it.

http://www.newegg.com/bibfotuna8000/356dh

I have some awesome Cooler Master headphones for PC and was wondering if they would work? They have 5 speakers per side so I'm not sure if that's too much.

so the DS4 has 3.5mm port, is that right?

i love this feature for wiiu, and with most tvs excluding a headphone jack, its a great feature if youve got no amp.

Yeah it's a pretty awesome feature, especially if you have roommates.

Another great feature indeed. By gamers for gamers in motion guys.