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The high-end range is just gash. All hiss and crackle.
Grrrrrr. :evil:
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It is in essence a wank card. Sorry to tell you, they arnt much better than on board at the bottom end. The only range with remotely decent circuitry is the Platinum X-Fi/Ultimate X-Fi.
The old SB Live!s ftw tbh.
And is wank now an adjective too?
It has been decreed, coined and issued as a bill.
If you game, might as well stick with a reasonablly cheap variant of these cards, maybe pick up an X-Fi if its worth it to you. If its just for music there are better cards to be had.
Quote from: DeltaZeroThe old SB Live!s ftw tbh.
And is wank now an adjective too?
Ever since Elmer Fudd was created. :lol:
Lol - thought as much. Wank indeed... :(
hissy and crackles isnt the card. Its crosstalk noise and crap.
Strangely enough my Audigy 2 has it when using the drivers supplied on the CD. Doing an autoupdate removed all sound of cross talk. I now have crystal clear sound coming out :)
Try that.
It might remove some of the hiss, but it wont clear up the awful high-end, these cards all share the same generic batch components.
I had this. Do a clean reinstall of the drivers. Sounds stupid but it worked for me!
Also, you dont mention what sound. All sound? Or just from a music player? Make sure you dont have any plugins which could be adding noise to the signal. I also had that :)
Dont have the volume at absolute max either, it causes clipping. Let us know if reinstalling th drivers works, Id like to know if it was the drivers or wank card issue. :)
My audigy 2 zs if fine sound clarity wise
only problem i have is the crap drivers that cause a bluescreen every 1 in 1000 times i use the volume control on the external section of the card
would give anything to solve that, without a set of drivers that doesnt cause twice as many problems
creative, reasonably good hardware, not bad software..... forking awful drivers
Quote from: SweensterMy audigy 2 zs if fine sound clarity wise
only problem i have is the crap drivers that cause a bluescreen every 1 in 1000 times i use the volume control on the external section of the card
would give anything to solve that, without a set of drivers that doesnt cause twice as many problems
creative, reasonably good hardware, not bad software..... forking awful drivers
I heard theres some 3rd party drivers that a lot of studio dudes use for creative cards. Lets you do some really complex stuff, and a hell of a lot more stable than the POS creative ones.
Quote from: funkychicken9000I heard theres some 3rd party drivers that a lot of studio dudes use for creative cards. Lets you do some really complex stuff, and a hell of a lot more stable than the POS creative ones.
Would be very interested in finding out about them!
Quote from: DeltaZeroQuote from: funkychicken9000I heard theres some 3rd party drivers that a lot of studio dudes use for creative cards. Lets you do some really complex stuff, and a hell of a lot more stable than the POS creative ones.
Would be very interested in finding out about them!
EMU possibly? some of their cards are just Creative cards, but the software is normally better. EMU are owned by Creative IIRC
My creative drivers report the card as a emu10kx Audio [A000] in volume control.
E-MU are the professional sector of Creative, the cards are some of the best on the market, analogue circuitry wise. So good in fact that I will be buying one soon.
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
Quote from: Deaths Headhttp://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
Is that drivers or just software?
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Shouldnt matter actually, it appears to have an ASIO interface, which is even better :)
Quote from: Deaths Headhttp://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1
Thats the puppy. Theyre dead good, you can sort of create hardware links in the software, to send your input signals through different DSP blocks and out different outputs on the back of yer comp :D
Thats where ASIO comes in, funky C ;):
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213488,00.html
If you want to bypass the ugly 48khz resampling of the Windows environment ASIO is the way to go: http://www.asio4all.com/
Quote from: EagleWhy does my Audigy 4 sound like s***?
Becaude it takes after the German soccer team? :mutley:
I wish I got an E-mu instead of this audigy piece of poo. :(
Hmmsk, reccomending all these audiophile-pleasing cards is great, but last time I looked into them I couldnt find anything that would do proper 5.1 out of the box that could touch an audigy 2. Is this still the case (albeit replacing audigy with Xfi)? Do any of these fancy m-audio or emu cards do proper 5.1 yet?
Not really as they are semi-pro and therefore designed for high quality analogue audio and MIDI, although I can still name you some cards that will do the 5.1 job as well MUCH better than an audigy 2.
X-Fi Platimum/Elite (or the XtremeMusic - Plat has amped headphone out and elite has better DACs)
M-Audio Revolution 5.1/7.1 (5.1 has pretty good analogue+integrated headphone ampage, 7.1 is missing that)
Out of the semi pro cards that dont offer 5.1 the three names always talked about are the ESI Juli@, E-MU 1212M and the E-MU 0404. Im getting a 1212M*, if I want 5.1 Ill use the DVD/SACD player.
Depends really though. Are you after hardware AC3 decoding or a simple digital passthrough? Theres some blinding cards with optical/coax out at half the cost of an X-Fi Platinum or Elite.
* Pretty much a certainty, now that Greg has crafted me the twin 1/4" mono jack to stereo 3.5mm interconnect I need.
any htpc must have a HDA soundcard tbpfh
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Looks like I had two equalizers on the go at once: Creatives one and the one in Winamp... no wonder things were sounding bad! :whoops:
Still not perfect but its handling teh high-end much better now...
...ahem. Scuttles off to bed...
Turn off all the SRS trueSorround CMS3D virtual positronic wow! crap and other DSPs and it will sound better too.
seeing as all graphic equalizers are just filters which dirty the sound and ruins the production of every record.