Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnyears To your ears, Beethoven's music sounds hopelessly conventional, but then you have known Beethoven's music and later music that has incorporated all of his innovations all of your life. Indeed. I personally love Beethoven and Mozart, but I...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigshot Taste is a reflection of experience. The more you know, the better your tastes are. How very astute. I've always thought the same; the greater the variety of music you've heard, the more you can appreciate specific areas.

Quote: Originally Posted by bperboy Slightly off topic, but how would you find the game, in terms of how enjoyable it was to play? Also, is there a separate disc for the soundtrack? The game is very fun. If you enjoyed any of the past Civ games you will enjoy Civ 4. No...

Quote: Originally Posted by AdamWill As long as you don't have rate locking on (i.e. unmuted - I think it's the very last mixer control), the rate will be automatically changed to match whatever you're playing. Try it - set it to 22050 or something then play some music. It'll sound fine...

Quote: Originally Posted by AdamWill ...without an asoundrc like this, it doesn't work, so I agree it's the S32_LE bit that's vital (the rest of the .asoundrc simply tells it to send everything to device 0,1 - the digital output - by default). I don't know what it means, though...

Thank you! I wasted a ton of time trying to get this to work, and then finally I stumbled upon your guide. It really helped! A couple of questions: 1) I see that in the asound.state file you provide, you have unmuted and raised the volume levels for many different channels. Is there a...

Quote: Originally posted by Wodgy JeffL, that's not a good way to use the Foobar equalizer. When you move a slider away from 0dB, you invoke a FIR filter at that frequency -- by moving most of the sliders downwards, even though the equalizer looks flat above 110Hz, you're adding dozens of...

I may have overstated that a bit; I meant I heard "almost no bass" in some of my music, but not all. Generally it is poor across the board, but it's not nonexistent. I do suspect a problem somewhere, though, as I don't think it's just me; it just doesn't sound right, and I haven't really read...

Quote: Originally posted by ServinginEcuador GIGO is the word you're looking for. If you take a bad signal from something, and then amplify it, all you get is a louder, stronger bad signal. Amps can't fix a bad signal, merely pass it along with more juice behind it. After listening to...

Quote: Originally posted by CRESCENDOPOWER I think you just answered your own question. If you are looking for more bass try the Beyer DT-770 pros, because the HD-580s require a much better source than what you are using. Of course, I know that a computer sound card is never the...

I have the following headphone setup that I use exclusively with my computer: Terratec DMX 6fire card > homemade silver braid mini-mini IC > Headsave Transit META42 amp > Cardas cable > HD580s My problem is lackluster bass in general. I listen to lossless FLAC files with foobar2000, and I...

Quote: Originally posted by SteeleBlayde Well then keep your terratec and consider all else that I have said in regard to amps and DACs! Will do - thanks. I'm actually considering building my own META42 now, but I will consider that Sostenuto. BTW is it not currently in...

Quote: Originally posted by markl The real issue is the utility of sticking a $300 amp on a $40 soundcard, not comparing a good budget CDP to a cheap soundcard. Original poster (sorry again GetCool) seems to have $300 or so to spend upgrading his system, could go toward an amp or...

Quote: I certainly don't want to pick a fight with anyone, just expressing my views, which it appears aren't wanted by the thread-starter. Since that's the case, I'll refrain from further derailing his thread. Cheers. It's not that I don't want your views, it's just that I still feel...

Quote: Again just my opinion take it for waht it is worth: IMO, if you care at all about sound quality, and you must if you are at all involved here , you'll need to eventually ditch the mp3's. you can stick a $5000 amp on a computer sound card and all you will have is a very clear picture...