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Looking at getting a decent soundcard for my PC - what I do is listen to a lot of MP3's/FLAC's, and play some games (CS, WoW, HL2, et al). One big requirement is sounds need to be crisp; if any of you are mac nuts, I'm happy as hell with the sound output on my Powerbook - every sound is reproduced perfectly and it's an absolute dream to listen to high quality audio on it. I'm yet to find an affordable sound card for the PC that sounds anywhere like it. I'm not a huge Creative fan (their drivers fucking suck), so I don't think I want an Audigy but I can be convinced otherwise. I went out and bought a Chaintech AV-710, which uses the VIA ENVY 24HT-S chipset, which has rave reviews all over the net. I'm not happy with the bastard - high/low frequencies don't sound crisp. Autechre, for example, sounds fucking terrible on this soundcard. I'd also like it to run with games nicely. It seems the Chaintech is a bloody 'software dsp' card meaning it does all processing on the host CPU. It really affects games performance :-( What do you use/recommend? |
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(By the way, if any of you do own the Chaintech card and disagree with me - let me know. I suspect the card might be faulty, but it probably just sucks.) |
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for games, i'd go with the new audigy 4. As far as making/listening to music, I don't know what to say. Just dont buy an m-audio ozone. |
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why's that? isn't the ozone a midi keyboard? |
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anybody? surely somebody here knows the shnizzle on the sound cards. |
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get an nforce board (mobo) with build in 5.1 soundstorm. works aight' |
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soundstorm is still software dsp though, right? happy with my motherboard anyway; athlon 64 chip, older socket style (not 939 or whatever it is), asus k8v deluxe. it's got an onboard soundmax which i swear sounds better than this chaintech i bought, which is bizarre. still sounds bad, though. |
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i've got an , sounds pretty crisp and clear to me. cheap too, for what it is. |
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anybody here got a powerbook and can contrast and compare what their pc sound card sounds like compared to it? i can't fault the audio on my powerbook one bit - it sounds /so/ clear - high/low end is reproduced wonderfully. this is especially evident with audio such as autechre, et al - rapid high/low pitched noise sounds like crap on most pc sound cards, but it sounds fantastic on the powerbook. i think this has actually ruined things for me because i thought my live! sounded fantastic until i started using half decent headphones with my powerbook. now i'm finding it impossible to find a sound card that can match the quality... :( |
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I owned an E-MU 0404 for about a week. I primarily run the newest version of FL Studio and found that the latency to be horrific or the CPU usage suddenly shot thru the roof. It may have been just my machine but I read online about many others who have had problems with this card. During that time there web site to update the card appearantly did not exist. But then again, what do you expect for a sound card around the $100 price range. |
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don't get anything by creative (well maybe emu, but it's independent unit). asio drivers are pretty lame. and everything else is pretty basic. maybe with kX-drivers things are more flexible but i reckon my livedrive doesn't work with those |
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are the audigy 2's no good for floops-style music production? btw, i have a nforce board and the onboard sound absolutely sucks. maybe i got a bad one, but i just figured that's what you get from onboard audio. |
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set your price range and buy whatever the best m-audio card is for that amount of money theyve got really nice dacs on em |
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sorry for the very late reply... the Ozone is a midi keyboard, yes, similar to the Ozone 8 (looks exactly like it except the Ozone has more knobs). It's also got a 24bit/96khz recording interface with line in, stereo in, and XLR-mic in... The problem with it is the USB was never quite fast enough (would get clicks and pops) and, more importantly, the piece of shit just flat out died recently. It was NEVER once mistreated and after not being used for a few months it just decided to up and stop working. I was never really happy with how my finished results sounded through it, even when it was working, so I'm not really too heartbroken that it's useless now, but I am pissed off that I spent money on it in the first place. |
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Ozone 8 = Oxygen 8. sorry :p |
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Audigys are fine for FL and reason, i used mine in dubai to run cubase and didnt have too many problems as well. if your gaming go for some surround bollckates |
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"don't get anything by creative" - because ...? get online |
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