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post #16 of 18
2/9/10 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by Behemot View Post
I found X-Fi's response quite neutral too. Some people set the enhancements on (Crystalizer etc) - no wonder upper end becomes somewhat shrill. But without that the response is good and natural.

You can set X-Fi for bit-perfect playback in the audio creation mode.
You see this alot in the forums, people complain about the sound of a card but with more informaiton you find out they have a bunch of junk filters running, the card set incorrectly or using crazy EQ...yet they wonder why the card doesn't sound right compared to their last card?
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post #17 of 18
2/9/10 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by leeperry View Post
Creative drivers crapola again! the VIA Envy24 drivers are bit-perfect/automatically bit-matched over DS/KS/WASAPI...and the Musiland Monitor serie is the same over KS(which is all that matters to me )
Can you confirm Envy audio cards are automatically bit matched over wasapi?
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post #18 of 18
2/9/10 at 6:09pm
WASAPI exclusive yes, that's the only way on Vista/7 apparently...because these two OS force you set a fixed sample rate in the system audio config...anyway that's what a friend of mine's tests seemed to prove.

since then he's sold his HD2 Advance DE and got the Forte 7.1 because he needed a PCI-E card anyway, and only ASIO seems to be bit-matched...

and btw the musiland does automatically bitmatched DS/KS/ASIO up to 32/192, it's good that not every driver engineer is brain damaged in this world(unlike Creative/C-Media and Asux )

there's also some CMI8768 GPL drivers from dogbert that are fully bit-matched/automatically bit-perfect in any mode(he's the bit-perfect god!)...but I've only found the Auzen X-Raider 7.1 running this DSP, it's got swappable op-amps too...but it's grossly overpriced for such a cheapo DSP(16/48 max over analog)

dogbert's drivers are also great to get killer bit-perfect S/PDIF on a budget though(16/96 max over digital)
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