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Soundcard advice
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I've been considering getting a decent soundcard recently (creative x-fi probably), main question is - how much difference do they actually make?
I have pretty decent speakers and will probably get some Sennheiser PCxx (depends how much i feel like spending =P) headphones, so I wanta make the most of them. I listen to far more music than a lot of people, plus record bass onto my pc a bit.
at the min I have soundMAX digital something or other (integrated soudn), and while it's not shit I reckon I could get a lot more out of decent equipment with a decent card..
Worth spending 50quid on a soundcard or not?
I have pretty decent speakers and will probably get some Sennheiser PCxx (depends how much i feel like spending =P) headphones, so I wanta make the most of them. I listen to far more music than a lot of people, plus record bass onto my pc a bit.
at the min I have soundMAX digital something or other (integrated soudn), and while it's not shit I reckon I could get a lot more out of decent equipment with a decent card..
Worth spending 50quid on a soundcard or not?
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It was more a question of sound quality... listening to music on a random cd players and listening on an awesome hi-fi makes a massive difference to enjoyment imo! Plus with an x-fi you can upgrade your mp3s/wma etc to a better quality file (dvd quality i think), its just im not sure if its all promotional talk to sell the product or if it would make a real difference.
That is probably promotional. It can only play the mp3 files at the quality at which they were recorded. Doing anything other than that would be upsampling, which could potentially add something, but you wouldn't be listening to what was actually put down in the track.
Where it might help is if you have a high quality source that it can play back without downgrading it.
Think i'll just buy a new comp in a few months
Instead of buying a new comp, why not buy some decent speakers and a good sound card? before moving to a laptop my of my PCs had some Alesis M1 Active monitors and a Terratec DMX6 Fire soundcard which gave such crystal sound quality, now these Soundstation speakers sound like music being played through double glazing.
Think he's fucked off now.