MSI GT70 AND ASTRO A50 WIRELESS HEADPHONES

Has anyone been using the Astro A50 wireless headphones with their MSI gaming laptop? I am curious how you decided to connect it, since unfortunately all the cables or converters are not included by Astro.
What cables or converters did you use to connect and are you satisfied with the quality of the headphones with games and music? Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

Quote from: Dxxchrisable on 13-December-12, 07:07:23
Hi ive used the msi gt70 for a while now and, since this mondey ive got myselv a roccat kave 5,1 headset. Ive switeched realtek audio to 5,1 mode and suddenly i found out there were no microphone output. ive tried to reassign the jacks with regedit but with no luck. so i guess im playing games without a mic....... and this annoys the crp out of me. help msi community im having such frustrations with this issue. also i end up with
-headphones/speaker/s,pdif,out =
-center/bass
-rear L/R
-front L/R
The only way to get a microphone input to work with the GT70 is to use Stereo/headphones/SPDIF out. If you select anything other than just 2 channels (or SPDIF out), you lose the microphone input.
Another option would be to get a cheap USB sound card and use the microphone input to that.
Personally, I got a Asus Xonar U3 for use at home because I use a dolby digital stereo and the Xonar U3 is the only sound device (for less than $100) that will upconvert audio from 2 channels to dolby digital 5.1 channel audio.
Anyway, long story short, you need to only use 1 jack for audio output, and 1 jack for audio input.

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