

There are also optical connectors for your console if you want to also use it there, but I’ll get to that later. The G6 is a box that sits between your PC and wired headphones, connecting to the computer via USB and your headphones with the usual 3.5mm audio jack. In other words, it’s a high-quality external sound card – I suppose it’s not all that complicated after all. It's for audiophile gamers who want better sound quality than that offered by whatever soundcard is embedded on their motherboard. It’s a combination hi-res DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) and headphone amplifier that plugs into your PC or gaming console, offering up dramatically better sound than what your rig provides on its own.

Those days are long gone, and nothing better illustrates that than the Sound BlasterX G6 (See it on Amazon).

There was a time when the world was a simpler place, when I could (mostly) explain technology to my dad.
