The normal X-Gamer is the card Creative built to replace the X-Music. It is pretty much the same card. Except it is a half height card. There has NOT been any reported differences between the two cards. Avoid the X-Audio as it does not have a real X-fi DSP chip.
Here is a thread with info and a Pic of the New Prelude card. I read some older threads where people seemed interested in this card. The official release date is the end of June. There is a full list of supported features in the thread. Including future support for HDMI 1.3...
That is where we got the info from of which ones to try out. There is another user that is modding the card even further by bypassing and removing certain capacitors. He says this improves sound quality also. The jury is still out on that one. The comparisons have died down alot. They...
Latley a group of us have been testing other Opamps we have tested the
OPA2134's
OPA2227's
OPA2107's
LM4562's
The 2227's have a very nice bass response to them. The 2134's and 2107s are very "analytical" sounding in their response. The LM4562's seem to be the favorite now among DIY'ers...
I guess they will release the driver when it's done. Must be very nice to have all the soundcards functions under the Vista OS. Seems to be alot of mad people with other soundcards. Games that are said to work don't. The ALChemy wrapper causing BSOD's. Poor sound quality. Guys with full 7.1...
to use the DMM, you will need to know the In outs of the connectors. Unfortunatley this is not a good way to test becasue you won't be able to test for current issues. You can only test for issues with Voltage. I would just swap it out. Issues like this are usually the power supply. if not...
@aria, I am a tool? Only relaying info I read.
Guys calling me a tool and he thinks philips soundcards have paromise? Can you say Tone Deaf? I hope you got some Q-Tips for Christmas to go with your Phillips card and your
merely "okay" speakers.
Just saying if EAX is such a burden to you. I know all about that AC3 encoder, I know the developer. What is the top quality of in game sounds? 16/48? the encoders can be turned on or off. I see you still don't get it do you? keep studying.
On the same subject a guy at Guru3D has his Audigy 2 wired to the X-Meridian by digital. He said the Audigy 2 processes the audio for his games only and sends the audio to the X-Meridian over a digital connection. The X-Meridian outputs the sound with whatever enhacments you would like to add...
Whatever gets you through man. You shouldn't assume everybody is a gamer or even care in the slightest about gaming.
I care about how the card sounds and it sounds better than a X-fi. That is all I care about and yes I have heard both. The difference is NOT slight the X-Meridian sounds alot...
You need to keep researching, you don't have the whole picture. Vista is removing Directsound support. EAX are extensions of Directsound-more or less. Instead Vista is moving to OpenAL, so you will still have game effects through OpenAL. X-Meridian will be supporting OpenAL in Vista...
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