Oh, Robert, how is the sound quality?
Janina, if you find other models, please share.
Kare



On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:

I like the notion of dual DACs on a headset device. You've got me
shopping!

Best,

Janina

Robert Carter writes:
Hi,

I purchased an Arctic 5 gaming headset. This headset has a USB interface and 
has two sound cards built-in. So, there is a volume control on the cable which 
allows you to control the volume of the two sound cards separately. You can set 
up the sound sources on the Mac so that you have VoiceOver on one sound card 
and Zoom on the other. This way, using the single volume control, you can turn 
either sound source up or down as needed. This is not panning as both sound 
from Zoom and Voice Over come through both speakers but the ability to grab the 
volume control and turn up or down either source instantaneously makes for a 
much more pleasant Zoom and VoiceOver experience.

I learned about this headset from a podcast that David Woodbridge did about it.

Robert Carter



On Jul 9, 2020, at 2:35 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello All:

Like many of you I spend a lot of time each week in Zoom meetings.

I find there are many ways by which Zoom notifications read aloud by Voice Over
enhance the experience. I very much appreciate knowing who just entered
the meeting, and who just left. This is only one example.

But there's clearly also the problem of Voice Over obscuring what is
being said in the teleconference itself. Unfortunately, both speack at
exactly the same locus of a stereo field, because there's no facility to
pan these sound emmiters to different locations even though most of us
are likely stereo capable in our hardware.

I believe the situation could be enhanced greatly if we had the ability to
adjust the pan position of Voice Over speech. If the sound coming
from the meeting were in one location in the stereo field, while Voice Over
speech were in a different pan location; we would have a greater possibility to 
pay
attention to the one and ignore the other. Some of us would likely even
learn to comprehend both just as sighted people often comprehend
unrelated simoultaneous events in their visual field.

What do you think? Is this something we should request of Apple? I
suspect it would be relatively easy to implement.

Best,

Janina

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