Does anybody know if xsx Audio passthrough update/Dac

For most dac/amp combos for chat on xbox, I believe you'll need a Y splitter cable, put that in your controller and connect the Y splitter to your separate microphone (antlion, vmoda what have you) and your hdphns
into the dac/amp combo and your good to go with party chat and audio ( I believe!)

This is correct. Plug the Y into the controller and your mic into the mic half of the Y. Run the other half of the Y into an amp using either a 3.5mm to 3.5mm stereo ("line in") cable, or a 3.5mm to dual RCA adapter cable, depending on what kind of inputs
your amp has. In this case you won't need / can't use a DAC because the controller already does the conversion to analog for you.

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With the current Xbox One, it is possible to use an optical (TOSLINK) cable of virtually any length to a DAC/Amp for game audio, then simply plug a mic into the controller for chat. I briefly looked into lavalier microphones (i.e., lapel mics) as a convenient
alternative to boom mics like the VModa / Modmic, but I haven't tried any.

With the upcoming XBox Series X, there's no clear path to getting game audio into a headphone except to pull it off of HDMI using a receiver, an HDMI switch/splitter with audio out, or possibly a TV with an optical out.

If the XSX will support general purpose audio out and USB microphones, that sort of opens up a lot more possibilities--although the console looks to be short on USB ports when you might need as many as 3 of them for a controller, a DAC and a microphone.

Bluetooth support would be a nice half-measure since there are some DACs that support Bluetooth as well as BT receivers like the Fiio BTR5 or Qudelix 5K that could allow you to beam game audio to the headphones or IEMs of your choice.

The silence on this thread is only reinforcing my suspicion that audio is simply not a priority for XSX. It never really has been, and that has created a circular tragedy where better audio support is not implemented because it's not seen as a priority,
and demand for better audio quality is stifled by a lack of support for it. LAME.

Thankyou again for your reply, however reading in-between the lines, you are basically saying it is not a Microsoft problem and are disregarding this and other multiple posts which indicate it to be an issue with the XSX.

As I have detailed previously stated, placing the eArc in passthrough mode doesn't work for atmos game audio.

the controller has to be hardwired for audio to work as the xbox controller bluetooth does not allow audio passthrough.

I Think you are asking this.

1. If you buy a DAC so that you can convert digital optical audio into analog so that you can plug it into your headphones and get game audio. Then yes this will work.

2. If you plug your 360 into your one via the HDMI passthrough will you hear your 360 via your headphones. Yes I think so.

3. 360 chat should still work as it has its own connection.

4. You could use Kinect for game chat on the ONE.

Another option would be to connect the headphones to your TV (either the headphone socket, analogue audio out or using a DAC to convert from digital audio depending on the connections on your TV)

I have connected the optical cable from my xbox to an dac. and analog audio from the dac to my amplifyer