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I also received this cable with my speakers:
http://www.electronix.com/images/45-473.jpg
What is it for?
http://www.electronix.com/images/45-473.jpg
What is it for?
I thought my expensive X-Fi card was amazing until it broke and I took it out and had to use onboard sound and it sounded the same to me!
Maybe audiophiles can tell the difference and if you have a high-spec PC ,a s I do, it does feel wrong, not to add a sound card, but I'm convinced onboard sound (on a decent motherboard anyway) is 90 - 95% of the way there.
I've used both on board sound and my Soundblaster card
I have decided to buy a Creative Sound Blaster ZXR. I have been made an impression that it is the best thing for gaming and excellent for music. It's a lot of money for me, but what can I do, I have OCD
Sorry, which soundblaster card?
Hehe, if you can't tell the difference in sound quality between on board sound and a stand alone card, you are probably deaf.
They don't say what they are comparing against, in this review. That is a very big flaw in their methodology.
In a blind ABX test with any goofy effects turned off? I'd be shocked if very many of the people here could do much better than chance.
The key is many, or most people have shit speakers of headphones, and that is a problem. Of all my family members, and my friends (well one had the same phones as me, haven't talked to him in well over a year though since he moved away) , none of them have sought to invest in a pair of headphones over $30. And their pc speakers probably didn't cost much more. But yes, if you have a really good sound production (speaker/headphone) its is pretty easy to tell the difference between vanilla on board and vanilla high end dac.
Wait, people still buy sound cards?
Only the hardcore audio snobs
It's funny because I used to be like all of these people saying onboard is just fine...until I bought a sound card.
i'm an audio snob, and i use the on-board realtek with dolby digital live and spdif output to my 5.1 receiver. ddl works brilliantly for audio positioning in just about any game, and the sound quality is literally impossible to beat with any other hardware.
We live in a world where people didn't instantly reject 128k mp3. I think you are overestimating people's hearing.
Which card are you praising?
i'm an audio snob, and i use the on-board realtek with dolby digital live and spdif output to my 5.1 receiver. ddl works brilliantly for audio positioning in just about any game, and the sound quality is literally impossible to beat with any other hardware.
You're bypassing the DAC which is not the same. I've used the optical out straight to a receiver and it of course sounds great since you are passing a perfect digital stream to a receiver.
You're bypassing the DAC which is not the same. I've used the optical out straight to a receiver and it of course sounds great since you are passing a perfect digital stream to a receiver.
Maybe the really expensive ASUS ROG boards with higher-end onboard isolated DACs take away the need for a dedicated sound card. For most users though, the Sound Blaster Z, Zx, and ZxR are big upgrades from their onboard audio.