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Alright, Ive been using my Grado 325i for a while...but Ive mainly been using my stock sound card on my PC...the one onboard.
My mother board is a A8N-SLI Premium.
And I was wondering if its worth the money to upgrade to a modified X-fi Platinum (only plat cause of the front bay). Or should I just get a old Audigy Platinum.
I know I have to get something, but for $40 is the Audigy a good deal? or should I save up for the Audigy Platinum?
Or if there are any other sound cards for sale here or elsewhere, that have a Front 5.25 bay, please suggest them
Thanks.
__________________ Main Rig: Audigy Platinum->Grados 325i Portable Rig: Zen Vision M -> Shure E3C/ ATH-Pro5MS Current Projects:5xCmoy Heavy Rotation:Metric, Stars, Broken Social Scene, Fiest, The Beatles...mostly indie and mostly Canadian +more.
Total Spent: $840 (270+270+80+140+40+40)
Total well invested: $760
too late...I already called the guy....its only $40 so its still a waste of money...but that will satisfy my craving untill I am ready to drop $200+ on a modded x-fi, and you can modify the audigys anyways.
besides...the Audigy Platinum is probally at least 10 times better than my crappy on board sound...from my motherboard.
__________________ Main Rig: Audigy Platinum->Grados 325i Portable Rig: Zen Vision M -> Shure E3C/ ATH-Pro5MS Current Projects:5xCmoy Heavy Rotation:Metric, Stars, Broken Social Scene, Fiest, The Beatles...mostly indie and mostly Canadian +more.
Total Spent: $840 (270+270+80+140+40+40)
Total well invested: $760
maybe it is..in my opinion if you needed a card with that front thingy and have a tight budget,the "best" option was the hercules gtxp 5.1 and 6.1 version (even the 7.1 would be fine,it uses a inferior chip,but I had the fortissimo 3 with that chip and I loved the thing).
For games it can't be as good as the audigy,but for music is better =)
It even has vista drivers :P
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Terratec Aureon Space 7.1 @ Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1
Audigy 2 ZS@Audigy 4 "Youp Pax" Softmod
Sennheiser HD201/Plantronics Audio 80 and Audio 90/Logitech X-530
iPod Mini 4Gb + Koss P4 [all budget audio I know]
i found the audigy fine for music, however there is a trick to it. set the card to 4.1 and in foobar choose move stereo to rear. the sound quality is very good.
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