(20/12/2011 01:55 PM)Slushba132 Wrote:  define: sufficient for voice
On a ventrilo server running GSM (the standard if you don't use shitty speex wee sample with 16bit 44.1Khz

What
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM#Voice_codecs
Besides GSM was superseded by AMR-NB.

You don't need CD quality sampling for voice, and every sane voice system (PSTN, VoIP, SIP, even Apple's Siri protocol) doesn't.

(20/12/2011 01:55 PM)Slushba132 Wrote:  digital signal will have to be converted to analog eventually but usually through individual drivers in order to produce something with true surround sound (I.E. Razer Tiamat)

My presumption is that the headphones only actually have two drivers.
After all, it was advertised as a 7.1 » 2ch downsampler, not something that retains 8ch and outputs it like that.
You pay more for more drivers, and arguably, it's worse; 2 high quality drivers > 10 low quality ones.

(20/12/2011 01:55 PM)Slushba132 Wrote:  I payed 250 USD for a sound card that can output and input optical signal at 24 bit 192Khz because I don't want any quality degradation...

I'm not sure about audio input (where are you inputting from anyway?), but optical out supplied by onboard sound is just as good as that from a high end sound card.
If you only needed optical out, you wasted your money.  After all, the money for the sound card goes into the analog outputs, not the digital ones.

(20/12/2011 01:55 PM)Slushba132 Wrote:  in order to pay additional money to have them fudge up this perfect signal is unacceptable

Because the $90 processor is much cheaper than a $250 sound card...