Recent content by ooze

I heard a friend's Karma. He's not particularly impressed with the sound quality, neither am I. It's not bad but not that good. Thick and quite heavy for a 20Gb too. It is easy to use but so are many other players these days. I think you may be better off going for a newer one.

Got a reco from a friend: M-Audio BX5. Anyone have anything bad to say about these?

Yes please. Most things are - but they just tend to be overpriced compared to the US.

$400 (£250). As someone else said, it's relative. For me $20000 is a helluva nice set of speakers. I think it's a reasonable amount to spend on something that's not complete crap, especially as I'm giving this away. Sizewise I asked her and apparently there's two side shelves on either side of...

I've decided to give my ageing game PC to a relative. It'll lack speakers so I want to add a pair. She's already staked out where it'll go and there's place to have two small speakers of the bookshelf kind. A sub wouldn't be bad, but I think it might get in the way. I'm looking for something...

It's probably going into the realm of 'what I would like' isn't it? I'd say buy a reasonable receiver with 6-channel analog input and optical in (with common format acceptance). Haven't heard of Outlaw but the midrange receiver market is quite crowded and it shouldn't be a problem to hunt out...

For home theater and gaming use (>=5.1) the Audigy 2 ZS is absolutely fine. I think it's a great all-round sound card. The DAV-LF1 is what I suppose you're talking about. The infrared transmission is supposed to be quite good, but once again I've not heard it so I can't say anything. If you ask...

I've never tried wireless speakers but I would think they can't be that good. You can use most domestic receivers and amps with the Audigy's outputs. I have the Horning Zeus speakers along with the Naim NAIT 5 integrated amp for my computer specific audio. I've got two computers going into it...

I thought the DT770 was a very fatiguing headphone to listen to. It's true that they have bass while remaining controlled but I thought they needed a lot of EQ to stay listenable. I want to know about the sub as well. I've never been impressed by headphones compared to speakers, even compared...

By the way now that the power is plugged in :rolleyes: I'm happy with the card. Thanks for the advice everyone.

I'll take your word for it. My PC speaker setup sounds better to me than a comparable headphone system.

I'm not that ooze.

I guess I mean why use headphones unless you can't, if you see what I mean?

I didn't think about it like that. I use speakers for the PC.

The case accounted for more than I thought, so I went for the Gigabyte 6600GT instead... and framerates have taken a dive into the toilet!!!!! I had a GF4Ti, and expected this to be an upgrade. Instead, it's a lot worse. What gives :confused: Edit/ I should have seen the message...