Riddleofsteel
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So I need an IC puller, a soldering iron, now where do I buy the op-amps? Thank you.
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So I need an IC puller, a soldering iron, now where do I buy the op-amps? Thank you.
They both have excellent headphone performance. The Titanium HD has a headphone "out" not an amp as we mistakenly believed. That was my mistake, not Creative's.
Perhaps an edit to your review would be in order? It still says the card has a headphone amp. I love the card regardless , though I did buy it thinking it had an amp per your review.
I am torn, cant decide between this and the essense. I have to say i am inclined to creative as my main purpose is gaming.
ASUS isn't known for their great support of their soundcards either.
The X-Fi is more of a gamer card,
Why? What does it add? EAX25 support?!!?
The X-Fi adds NOTHING at the end of the day. A sound card is just a sound card.
Nope, the sound in games sound better than the STX. I don't even use EAX25 or whatever.
I get a boomier sound out of the HD. I found the STX to have a more neutral sound. But whatever you tell yourself is gold I guess.
If you think a sound card is just a sound card, then you're in the wrong section of the forum.
I have a P8Z68-PRO motherboard with (2) video cards in SLI and a PCI XI-FI card sandwiched between them. I mainly use it for gaming with Sennheiser HD595's and it works great! I want to upgrade the stock 2 slot coolers on the GPU's with aftermarket 3 slot coolers, which only leaves a single 1x PCI-E slot at very top of the motherboard. So, I buy a refurbished Titanium card for 50 bucks and plug it in. It's tight but, I got it to work, unfortunately between 50 and 100% volume there is constant static (increases with volume). The old PCI sound card had zero static. I tried Beta drivers, unplugging the nearby CPU fans, spread spectrum...and the problem persists. I also tried removing a video card and plugging the titanium in a lower slot, and the static disappeared. I suspect the noise is coming from the PCI-E BUS when both video cards are plugged in.
Do you think a titanium HD would eliminate the static? I don't think it will, but could always try one and return or sell it.
Do you think a titanium HD would eliminate the static? I don't think it will, but could always try one and return or sell it.
It doesOn to the next phase...acquiring (2) accelero xtreme plus coolers and seeing if the Zalman vrm heatsink will play nice with the AXP top.
The connection to the front panel jack picks up EMI on a lot of rigs. Test yours to see if there is any sound quality difference. The Ti HD does not have a headphone amplifier.So is there actually a difference between using the front panel phones jack and the card mounted one? I thought this card didn't have a headphone amp, and I'm getting confused by earlier posts...
It does
The connection to the front panel jack picks up EMI on a lot of rigs. Test yours to see if there is any sound quality difference. The Ti HD does not have a headphone amplifier.
Hey when I change the master sampling rate in audio creation mode I get a burst of 'hiss' in the right channel only. It only lasts a second and fades out, but I'm pretty sure I've heard the hiss when replaying a recording in audacity - I thought it was a defect in the recording, but when I listened to the same section again I couldn't hear it. Do you think this card is faulty?
I know nothing of why it happens. As long as it sounds good...Why is it from only one channel?
Thanks for the input.I practically play BC2 all the time.Whats your experience in BC2 regarding able to spot the enemy from the sound?I again question this line of thinking: Unless you want lots of old games with EAX/DirectSound support, you don't need the Creative. No games save Battlefield games really use hardware audio rendering. And BF2 had an issue where if you enabled X-Fi support and were in the middle of an artillery strike, your game crashed and likely caused a blue screen.
Also, the Essence has SOME EAX support.
Thanks for the input.I practically play BC2 all the time.Whats your experience in BC2 regarding able to spot the enemy from the sound?
I would appreciate that.I honestly haven't played BC2 since I nabbed my STX - but I can load in sometime this week. I'm pretty sure BC2 uses Open AL though, so it should work as expected...
How do you disable X-RAM? Did you mean you disabled the X-RAM setting from within a game?
The Essence doesn't have any EAX support worth mentioning. EAX is temperamental enough with genuine Creative hardware and drivers, attempting to use the third party emulated kind is a fool's errand. I had the STX, it was a superb card but not the best choice for gaming.
Summing it up, the 3D sound implementation on the Xonar Essence STX is not without drawbacks, but the X-Fi Prelude is not ideal, either. The Xonar was only defeated in a game that had been specifically optimized for the X-Fi. In the other games, the cards were roughly equal.
I'm sorry, but in my experience it was absolute rubbish. Had it been as good as those reviewers claim, I would still be using the STX today. God knows, I would much prefer the ASUS interface - these X-Fi drivers are doing my head in.
Incidentally, the biggest problem I experienced with the STX's drivers was related to the emulation/GX mode. The services it was reliant on would prevent certain programs from launching. I wonder if they ever fixed that...
Has anyone got to the bottom of this issue yet?
I just removed my X-Fi Titanium HD and enabled the onboard realtek 889 HD codec. My GOD it sounds TERRRRRIBLE. I can't believe people can't tell the difference between onboard and add-on soundcards. The onboard codec had terrible reproduction of FLACs. They sounded like if I was listening to an analog radio. Same with ventrilo. People sounded like I was talking to them through a two way radio. But I must hand it to realtek for making a pretty nice audio control panel.
Now creative is going to release Core3D. I will probably wait for Core3D HD But I can't imagine the best onboard audio I heard was the nforce audio back in the Athlon XP days. I thought by now the onboard audio companies would atleast come to parity with creative by now.
I really want to make this sound card and the Klipsch 5.1's work.
INPUTS: 2 Digital (Coaxial, Optical Toslink); 1 Analog (Stereo RCA)
A bit confused... it seems that the general recommendation is to go for creative cards if your into games.. cause of EAX and CMSS works better then Asus equivalent?
But then i read a user review of the titanium HD how EAC and CMSS will sound like in a fps game. It makes the sound more realistic. It will dampen the sound if the soundsource is far from you and also for example if you inside a house you dont hear footsteeps outside the house as good. This got me worried because thats exactly what you dont want, you want to hear everything, even behind walls and shit. Easier to position long range enemies is not as important as close ones!
He also mention that he thinks for competitive gaming EAX should be turned off. Which makes me wonder that for fps gaming asus cards is as good as creative ones?
hmm sounds fun.. thx for link
so gamma1 you think is alot better then stx??