I have a couple pairs of headphones that I use in different applications. I have zalman 5.1's which kick ASS in CS:S but suck for music. I also have a pair of skullcandy DJ headphones which are good budget headphones for music and stuff. I had a set of Behringer HPS3000 which are better than the...
Actually this is a little bit mistaken. $20 speakers are probably not going to be any better with a sound card because they probably match the onboard audio. A $200 set of speakers will get a slight improvement if your onboard audio is anywhere near current. a $6000 set of speakers is still...
I've been in the same boat as you OP. Had a pair of what I like to call "Dorm Speakers". Good sound on the budget. Now there are few things you should understand about audio. The most important is that if you were to graph quality and price together in audio the quality falls off very quickly as...
Is the xtreme music better than the audigy 4 pro? The audigy 4 seems to have all the options I want at an affordable price. It's a little more than the audigy 2 zs plat pro but has a better remote and I think slightly better oamps.
I think the meridian is out of my budget and i'm definitely...
Ok so it seems that x-fi is a good solution. I really would love to have optical out though. Would I be better off getting a Audigy 2 zs platinum pro? or is there some kind of extension for Optical audio? I could always go with the Fatal1ty and have the internal box but that puts a optical wire...
I've been upgrading my sound system lately and doing lots to improve various things in my rig. Right now I've settled on sound.
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I will probably use my computer mostly for gaming but that's not really where I want the high point to be. I would actually like to have a sound card geared...