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Weird sound positioning with headphone jack on ADI AD1988b

post #1 of 7
11/22/09 at 12:46am
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hey guys, I got this ADI AD1988b or something on my Asus P5K Premium Black Pearl motherboard, for my gaming computer.

soo. the story goes like this:
I connect my headphones (sennheiser HD555) to the stereo jack (in the back) and then my superaudionerdfriend tells me that I should try enabling the headphone jack and then I do so, connect the headphones to the front jack (that's where the headphone jack is it seems) and notice a huge difference. BUT!!!
when I'm playing games (which is what this computer was made for)
the audio positioning is way way off. it's like everything seems to come from the same place. almost mono? SUPER annoying.

is there any way to fix this? cause the front jack sounds a lot better than the stereo jack
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post #2 of 7
11/22/09 at 2:58am
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urr, it seems that left is right and vice versa... how the fork do I fix this?
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post #3 of 7
11/23/09 at 12:06pm
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fixed... I re-wired (?) the cables on the front jack from the motherboard
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post #4 of 7
11/23/09 at 12:08pm
If you have a serious gaming PC, I would advise you to get a gaming soundcard. This whoudl give you the best sound and support for your games.
Onboards are no good for gaming.
May I suggest: The Auznetech, Prelude, Forte or HTHD 7.1. These cards are basically the top of the gamaing audio right now. You can go with a CL bradned X-fi if money is tight.
The best advice anybody will give you is to ditch the onboard. Playing games with it is likley why your getting weird anomolies...
All three of that cards support EAX 1,2,3,4,5 and OpenAL.. EAX is not such a big concern as it was unless you play some older games. However, OpenAL is still being developed and used in the newer OS's. To note, OpenAL is still fully hardware acclerated by the hardware on the soundcard. Which is good...

Not sure if this is the answer your looking for but this is the only suggestion I give to poeple using onboards. They are basically there to hold you over until you get a card or external DAC..etc.
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post #5 of 7
11/23/09 at 5:03pm
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nah it isn't really serious, I mostly play Quake Live, Warcraft 3 and diablo 2, but sound is very vital in Quake and it felt weird listening to music the opposite way.
but I was planning to get the new Call of Duty game this week so maybe after playing that...
thanks for the suggestions and explanations, but a new soundcard is currently out of budget :{
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post #6 of 7
6/7/11 at 3:53pm

I defy anyone that says the AD1988B isn't a good audio setup for gaming, the motherboards it comes on are serious I have an older one (m3n-HT deluxe) the chipset supports EAX 2.0 a ton of channels and has a decent amp on it, I use my MDR-v6 monitors with it and games sound crisp and exciting, when I play COD I feel like I'm cheating (the detail on the MDR-v6 is over the top as well as the imaging) if you use a good PSU you end up with a clean sound. (oeh and did I mention the explosions sound AWESOME?)

 

I listen to a lot of music on their too and I am quite satisfied with the detail I am getting. Stick with it Munchzilla this little chipset will do you good. =D

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post #7 of 7
6/7/11 at 6:43pm

Well, just like other computer related features, actual hardware acceleration yields better audio than software counterparts, which is what happens with onboard audio and many dedicated soundcards (without gaming in mind), as OpenAL is set for software rendering, and audio performance suffers from it.

 

Like ROBSCIX said, OpenAL is being used on current OSes, and very actively developed, as it is the main audio pipeline being used for games, so onboard just doesn't cut it.

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