i can hear my headset audio throuth my mic
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Looking at that last one, is it really just a wiring adapter from the XLR mic to the PC mic jack? That's probably not the problem that you're asking about, but you're erasing the entire benefit of XLR by doing that.
I'd recommend a USB interface that has an XLR jack on it, and its own physical gain knob. Run the XLR mic into that, and keep the headphones off of it for the moment, just to make sure that you don't have an accidental path for the 'phones to get into the mic. Then, if the interface has a headphone out, you can move the 'phones there too and test it again, because it's probably a better 'phones driver than the built-in thing too.
I wonder if your built-in soundcard is failing, so that it adds this path:
The only reason I can see for it to do that is if the electrical layout engineer really screwed up the analog audio part......but considering that the inside of a PC case is a terrible environment for analog audio anyway, I wouldn't be surprised either. It's just not worth making it good in that kind of environment.
If it has all kinds of stupidly-high specs and flashy eye-candy with a (supposedly) big-name audio brand on it, then all of that is designed to sell, not to be effective. The built-in audio connection is still bad, and always will be.
If it works, that's great, but don't rely on it for anything important.
I'd recommend a USB interface that has an XLR jack on it, and its own physical gain knob. Run the XLR mic into that, and keep the headphones off of it for the moment, just to make sure that you don't have an accidental path for the 'phones to get into the mic. Then, if the interface has a headphone out, you can move the 'phones there too and test it again, because it's probably a better 'phones driver than the built-in thing too.
I wonder if your built-in soundcard is failing, so that it adds this path:
The only reason I can see for it to do that is if the electrical layout engineer really screwed up the analog audio part......but considering that the inside of a PC case is a terrible environment for analog audio anyway, I wouldn't be surprised either. It's just not worth making it good in that kind of environment.
If it has all kinds of stupidly-high specs and flashy eye-candy with a (supposedly) big-name audio brand on it, then all of that is designed to sell, not to be effective. The built-in audio connection is still bad, and always will be.
If it works, that's great, but don't rely on it for anything important.
Okay, so I think we've found the unwanted loopback. I'd get the mic off of there as well, just in case something still goes to the built-in card and gets looped back to that mic input. A USB box with an XLR input would be best.
For the music sounding "flat" with the external card, does the built-in one have some processing that "livens up" whatever goes through it? That's a common thing to have as a selling point, but I always turn it off or set it to do nothing before I use it. (if I have to use it) If you've mixed your music to rely on that, then you're the only one that's going to hear it that way. Anyone who doesn't have your consumer-focused "candy" is going to hear it "flat" like you just discovered.
Keep using the "flat" card, and re-mix your music to sound good again through that card.