Quote: Originally Posted by iDShaDoW Yea, I read that shorting the caps would help improve the sound, but the whole point of the caps is to keep some DC current from getting through and damaging equipment right? Most of modern amplifier have a DC blocker, even my 1980's pioneer...

I think 33uF/6.3v would be perfect replace for those caps, search this thread there's a comparison between 33uF vs original 22uF write down somewhere. replace it with BLKGATE NX Hi-Q is like cap-less sound, so why don't you short them instead? Unless you gonna color the sound with the caps (make...

Quote: Originally Posted by um2802 OK , but this model of XFi had 4 IC with 5 jack's ( see pic ). The XFi normal ( on PCI ) had 3 IC for front / cent+ sub / surround and 1 IC for mic input ( and 4 jack's ). At this model ( PCI-E ) who is who ? I don't own PCI-E version but...

There's some card that bennefit with this feature and all of them from creative (audigy range), because they cant handle 44.1khz natively (only 48khz) and their upsampling engine are poor.

Quote: All that 3 op-amp are compatible pin to pin with IC from Xfi board ? Yup, no additional socket needed Quote: And for that model of XFi what IC is for what ? ( front / rear / cen + sub / side ) front:ad8599 cent+sub:AD8066 surround: LM4562

Quote: Originally Posted by um2802 Which one ? What pick from AD 8599 or AD 8066 or LM 4562 ? The caps - what type and brand ? THX I use 3 diffrent opamp in my x-fi AD8599 for front (the best n expesive one), AD8066 for center/sub (softer then ad8599 but give more bass) and...

Quote: Originally Posted by sonci Yes, but the EAX support of non xfi cards is up 2.0. Its nonsense to play modern games without 3D sound... EAX is no longer support in Vista, Creative have to use ALChemy to convert EAX to OpenAL . The interested thing is someone name Daniel_K...

Quote: Originally Posted by -Spanky- Is there someone willing to mod my X-Fi? PM me if you are interested. I would prefer someone in the US. Find a handphone technician, they are good at small part and use a blower solder.

it's not complicated, i just can't find 'audio grade' capacitor in my country and the only brand i found is nichicon, yes it's good but there's only one good value 1000uF/6.3...but that just enough for me. If your solder skill is not good enough you can always take it to the handphone repair...

like slenpree told: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/ho...no-56k-226975/ it's the mother of all X-fi mods, but because it's got a long-long-long page i just summerized 4u (i'm copy thing i like then paste in my notepad), but i'm sorry i cannot remember which page. there other link you can...

Some people prefered Onkyo. It's full of big capacitor and got a great review as well

Here's the summary: 1. C177 is not effect the sound quality (Yes the cap near the chip you gonna mod), only the stability because this cap oftean leak. 1000uF/6.3V should do it 2. Most important cap to modify is Line-out coupling capacitor. U can short them or for the safety reason use 33uF...

I put wrong cap in X-Fi (1000uF 6.3v nichicon FG) in c74 (12 V) and strangely enough i can play movies and songs fine!!!! It's really 12 v or do i miss something?

one more thing my cap are G-Luxon and my board have video-in connector layout...hmmm i wonder what is for...

I like it very much..........to turn it off Creative card is full of useless feature and this one is not the worse. Why not DDL creative?