Windows sound setting questions - If you know your stuff please help out :)

[RedRhino]

maybe I could buy a SB X-Fi and use that crystaliser instead of the EQ... hmmm, sounds like a plan.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: RedRhino
maybe I could buy a SB X-Fi and use that crystaliser instead of the EQ... hmmm, sounds like a plan.

According to some sources a lot of what it's doing is the same bass/treble boost that'm more or less what you're doing right now.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1670566&enterthread=y

 

[RedRhino]

are you telling me is a marketing BS Jello? I'll find something with my current card then

thank you all though!!

Much appreciated

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: RedRhino
are you telling me is a marketing BS Jello? I'll find something with my current card then

thank you all though!!

Much appreciated

I'm not saying for sure it is, but a good portion of it sure sounds like BS. Resampling mp3s and processing them in real time to sound better than the original CDs that sound engineers designed?

 

[RedRhino]

yeah, i guess it does sound fishy

 

[Boobers]

Your MP3 files may have been ripped poorly even though the bit rate is high. In that case, nothing will make them sound good. What program did you use to make the MP3's? Did you use Exact Audio Copy?

 

[RedRhino]

yes, with the LAME encoder.

 

[crimson117]

does the same thing happen with non-compressed music files?

 

[RedRhino]

I'll try that... have not actually tried a cd yet.

 

[RedRhino]

I turned the bass way down on the POD, now the it sounds much more "tight".

 

[RedRhino]

ok, Country music doesn't distort at all... I don't understand why Green day, My Chemical Romance and stuff like that distorts. Could it be that my soundcard isn't good enough for my Z-5500 speakers?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: RedRhino
ok, Country music doesn't distort at all... I don't understand why Green day, My Chemical Romance and stuff like that distorts. Could it be that my soundcard isn't good enough for my Z-5500 speakers?

Possibly... or there might be something else that's wrong.

 

[RedRhino]

any suggestions at all? think I should boost the volume on the POD to half instead and leave everything in Windows to half too? That way I can get good volume without boosting it in Windows.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: RedRhino
any suggestions at all? think I should boost the volume on the POD to half instead and leave everything in Windows to half too? That way I can get good volume without boosting it in Windows.

Try some different stuff. If that works, then go for it.