5.1 headphones and crappy sound

in an effort to get over the hurdle of K8N having the crappiest onboard sound for headphones ever (no bass) , i decided to purchase Gainward 5.1 headphones (with subwoofer).
what happens is the subwoofer channel does not come through at all and the center is barely audible (cant hear dialogue in DVDs). if i unplug the sub/center of the headphones and plug in my speakers sub/center, it is loud and clear.
tried the headphones on another board with realtek alc650:
wow lots of bass, very loud fronts (2 x as loud as K8N), but barely audible rears and centers - at least all the channels are there.
ok so the sub/center channel of the headphones is ok, the sub/center output of my motherboard is ok, so what the hell? underpowered outputs?
basically all i want to know is - does anyone else have 5.1 headphones on K8N - how do they work?
also, if you have 5.1 headphones working nice on another soundcard, which card?

I bought a set of Zalmans which aren't expensive ones . I had to disable on board sound and buy an audigy 2ZS to get them to work. I ended up returning them later. They seemed bulky to me after wearing them for a day. My sennheisers sounded much better,were cheaper, and a lot more comfortable to me. I kept the sound card. The onboard sound on this board is horrible.

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Period size range from 1024 to 1024
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was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
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0 - Front Left
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Last edited by XuYimin (2014-01-16 12:18:02)

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