Search results

The card does do bit-perfect output. Note that any DTS / DD streams will be 48khz, thus wouldn't work correctly anyways when you set output to be 44.1. If you have any 44.1 khz DTS files, I'd be happy to hear of them, but I know that at least all DTS-CD's and DVD's are sampled at 48.

Any advances in AI will be algorithmic, not hardware-based. All the various AI techniques I learned about in my AI class were sound, but VERY difficult to apply to something besides games. You want an SVM that recognizes zip codes? How bout a minimax algo for chess? Those aren't too terribly...

Just to get this straight, In the specs for the box you produced, you are using 4 15" subs in a box with a total volume around 9ft^3? That sounds pretty damn small to me, as others at AVS pointed out. Also, I'm not familiar with the amp brand, so I doubt that you could go wrong with a...

I don't have any firsthand experience with it, but I'm going to buy one this Friday when I get paid, so I could probably tell you more then =] Basically, the Gramma prevents vibrations from the subwoofer cabinet from being transmitted straight into the structure of your house, so you won't...

I could live with HDMI outputs on the next graphics card that I buy also. I just hope that that card will be coming out soon, I really need a new card now that I'm back to using just my 9800pro =[

The one way to reduce vibrations tranmitted through walls would be to get an isolator, such as the Auralex Gramma, which will help to decouple the sub from the floor. These run about 50$, IIRC.

That would be great news, if true. Hopefully Nvidia will encorporate DTS Online [or whatever it's called] instead of DDL though, and also with any luck have an option for HDMI output. I just saw an article that ATI and Nvidia were buying HDMI encoding chips, perhaps a few will find their way...

Interesting to hear, thanks for the impressions =] Besides the localization, which seems to be rock-solid with this, how is the overall SQ? Would it be reasonably compared to a nice pair of bookshelves for stereo use? 2.0 is my primary use of my speakers, so this issue matters most to me...

Right, but then you don't get the isolation from your environment when you have everything rattling =]

That's what I'm thinking. Audioholics reviewed that sound projector and found it to be pretty nice. I'd like to hear one set up myself sometime, but I doubt anyone in my area carries such a thing. It would be nice to see how true their marketspeak really is. I can see these products...

It's a DVD, basically =]

I remember reading about hypersonic sound a long while ago in Popular Science. Seems like a pretty good idea on paper, but I would have to wonder about its fidelity in preserving the original signal. I think we might see a product based on this tech marketed towards the Bose crowd, but...

This is the basic principles of digital room correction. There's an open source project that has a few of the necessary programs you need to generate the tone sweeps and record them, and from there you can use some shareware apps to create the convolution files that actually apply the...

You think that we'll really be seeing a new transducer anytime soon? I'd personally doubt that we'll get anything radical myself. What I would say will be the next 'big thing' in sound is digital amplification for each driver, digitally crossed over and time/phase corrected. On top of...

If you wanted to have the ability to fully evelope the user in whatever volume of sound requested, you'd have to have some highly sophisticated white noise generators scattered everywhere to provide the cancellation. Also, consider that vibrations travel at different speed through different...

With an adaptor he actually could, all he'd have to do is enable bass management and then split that line. No amp [active sub anyway] no receiver.

It's all relative. I'd say add a zero to those numbers, then we'll talk :D

FFDShow is great, especially for upscaling DVD's and clearing out graininess. Takes a while to play around with and find what's best, but there's a number of guides available online to help if you are interested in fooling around with it more. It's just a shame that there really isn't much...

Soundblaster: I think that that point is understood, but it would have been nice for Creative to allow separate crossovers for each speaker. My mains are good down to 40hz, my center and rears to about 60hz.

You could also go for a real sub, like a Dayton 12" one from partsexpress, which would blow an SWS out of the water anyways.

Same here, not sure why. Where the hell is Donnie27 when you need him? :D

I would disable bass management. Yea, you'll have to buy an adaptor, just make sure that it is a 1/8" to mono adaptor, you can find them at Radio Shack for 3$ or so. Your setup will work fine, as long as you remember to always change the volume using the mixer app Creative provides...

If PC audio is your background for experience, what you are most likely experiencing is time/phase decoherence from the crappy internal crossovers in the speaker, not a design flaw inherent in multi-driver speakers themselves. I know that many very high-end brands utilize line arrays of dozens...

That's not true, as lossy compression permanently discards information selectively. Think about it, if you can compress something to a smaller size but still recover all data, then why not compress it again? And again? And why not keep compressing until it is just 1 bit in size? This is...

The ZS outputs both simultaneously, so you won't have any problems there. Note that if you are setting up more than just a 2.0 setup and you enable bass management, it won't send ANYTHING below your crossover point digitally, which means you'll get shit for SQ over digital, considering you'll...

Just curious if you mean this in terms of PC speakers or HT ones, as the market for single-driver HT speakers is barren. All I know of is a fwe people building modified transmission line cabinets and using the best midrange drivers they can find. My current speakers are a D'Appolito array, and...

Download the newer versions of FFDShow, it contains a full 6 channel sound engine. I've not fooled with it much, but I know that it will do 6-channel convolutions, which is a HELL of a lot more advanced than just EQ, so I figure it might do that too =]

If you figure that question out, please tell me, because I'm in the same boat. As far as I can tell, the only sliders related to bass that work are the slider for bass response on the mixer console [which muddies up the bass immediately when you turn it up a bit] and the the crossover frequency...

Zach: The reason that the tuning point might not be as low could be due to Dayton aiming for more dB's, rather than lower bass. Room gain will certainly help compensate for the high f3 point I would think, assuming you don't have an auditorium for a room.

I guess Creative Labs employees have never once stopped by avsforum, hometheaterforum, hometheaterspot, or any of the other countless HT forums out there :rolleyes: I'm sure all the people on AVS who have 100,000$ HT's just bought them cause they are loud. Christ, they should have told the...

Burn! I was expecting that, but not from the Mod :Þ

Don't you guys know that you first have to buy a highquality source, then worry about your speakers? So go out, get a nice Meridian CD player, and use your walkman headphones with it until you can buy a decent pair of bookshelves :D

You are basically stuck buying something from Creative if you plan to utilize hardware acceleration. Look for a refurbed card or something used off of Ebay to save cash.

Donnie: Re: the bitrate of DVD-A, I should have quantified that that number I listed was for multichannel, not stereo. Also, are you aware that ALL Creative cards are not capable of true 24bit/96khz reproduction, even including the X-Fi? I found this to be a major disappointment, as it...

Yea, the sample rate on SACD is really high, but it also uses 1bit samples, so it's an entirely different beast. Needless to say, I don't know much about it, I don't have an SACD player, and I wouldn't be interested in anything currently recorded on it, besides a Nightwish album. Suprise...

So you know, that soundcard doesn't have hardware acceleration of any kind, so you'll be getting the same frame rates, just less clipping, and probably better sound.

I'd say that the Klipsch speakers [on the PC side at least] have a pretty balanced sound. Bass is pretty muddy in my opinion, but they lack the tinny boombox sound you get with Logitech. Note that I've washed my hands of PC speakers a couple years ago, so feel free to discount my opinion if...

I would qualify that statement by saying that SOME EQs can make your system better. The ones that come with your Audigy2....not exactly :rolleyes:

What you are getting at is Nyquist sampling rate, which basically means that you have to double the the sampling rate to properly digitally represent an analog signal of a given frequency range. Thusly, the frequency on CDs is 22.05khz, DVD-A up to 96khz, and SACD I believe is over 100khz...

Business sense, yes. This is the same as Sony/Toshiba embedding high-end DRM in their next-gen formats. The businesses win, the consumers lose. Of course, each company runs the risk of pricing themselves out of their own respective business. Graphics cards are a much easier sell than sound...