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The high-end range is just gash.  All hiss and crackle.

Grrrrrr.  
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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 - 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: DeltaZero

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!

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.