Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD - 122db/118db SNR for Line-out/HP-out - Page 2

The RMAA graphs will be limited because the cards are measured in loopback mode so the output measurements cannot be higher then the quality of the input section.

This is why the output measurments do not match up with what CL suggests they should be.

Hi Fellow Head-Fiers,

I bought this card and I have a dell Vostro 200 slim tower. I think that the dimensions of this card will not allow me to install this card in my system. Or am I so dumb that I'm unable to insert it into the PCIe slot?

Any suggestions will be of great help.

Thanks

Sai

A question for Ra97oR:

All these cards use SMD (surface mount device) capacitors, so they all just look like tiny drums, especially with pictures from online sources...  Without each card placed directly side by side for comparison, one cannot even reliably determine how the physical sizes of these tiny capacitors compare...   How can you tell what type of capacitors they are, what material they are made of, and mostly, if they are higher or lower quality devices, by just looking at their external physical appearances...?  Exactly what objective and factual attributes were you referencing to when you stated that one card has capacitors made of higher quality material than the other...?  By just looking at the online pictures of the capacitors...?

The drivers for this card are a nightmare to use. You have to juggle three different control panels (Creative CP, X-Fi CP and Win 7 sound properties), not to mention the X-Fi 'modes'. Can anyone explain to me the necessity of having Game, Entertainment and Audio Creation 'modes'. This is something I've always hated about X-Fi cards. Is it an ill conceived gimmick, or some useless attempt to create a settings profile system?

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Originally Posted by Oubadah 

The drivers for this card are a nightmare to use. You have to juggle three different control panels (Creative CP, X-Fi CP and Win 7 sound properties), not to mention the X-Fi 'modes'. Can anyone explain to me the necessity of having Game, Entertainment and Audio Creation 'modes'. This is something I've always hated about X-Fi cards. Is it an ill conceived gimmick, or some useless attempt to create a settings profile system?

I don't know why Creative thought that was a good idea. I certainly hope it isn't a limitation of the X-Fi DSP, because I depend on that DSP (the Quartet portion, anyway) for my gaming features.

It is irritating to have to switch modes to Audio Creation Mode so I can get bit-matched playback and ASIO support whenever I want to listen to music. (And no, I don't use Entertainment Mode at all.) Furthermore, every time the drivers switch modes, there's a chance that it'll suffer from mode lock or even lock up the whole computer, forcing a hard reset. I still haven't completely isolated how to make those happen (it most likely occurs if there's anything that might be playing sound during a mode switch), but it's infrequent enough that I put up with it.

Here's hoping they'll fix this with the new Recon3D cards based on the SoundCore 3D. This is a long-overdue chance for Creative to win back some mindshare.

As a profile system, it's not nearly as handy as it could be.

So, I assume you guys have completely overlooked the auto switcher that's compatible with the whole X-Fi range, stock and official modded hardware alike.

You get can it here.

The latest Auzentech X-Fi drivers have the AutoMode Switcher as part of the package already, and I do use it.

The problem is that if the drivers randomly start having fits and refuse to switch modes...you see where I'm going with this.

Since only Audio Creation Mode has ASIO and bit-matched playback, if it doesn't switch the mode properly, I end up with a rude awakening when I try to play music through foobar2000.

Also, there is some profiling in that it remembers different volume levels for each mode. Important when I had my AD700s plugged into my X-Fi Forte, which made them unbearably loud when over 7% or so without a -24dB flat EQ to give me some room for volume adjustment...but only in Game Mode, because Audio Creation Mode in bit-matched mode disables the EQ.

Well, mode switching works reasonably well, but I do understand what you mean.

Also, the post was for the person who posted before, the person who has issues with the different modes.

And it should be noted that there are both official and non official software available for mode changing purposes.

Going from Game/Entertainment Mode to Audio Creation Mode can lead to some undesired volume spikes, for which I hope both your gear and your ears are prepared for, volume control wise