i wouldn't bother with intel if you're considering it for audio related purposes, the amount of immense heat from the processor, my brothers 2.4 ghz intel runs at ~50 degrees C, and sounds like a ****ing fleet of apache helicopters, my AMD 64 3000+ which is way faster than his, runs at 30-40...

yes, after a rather long google session i discovered this ): i'm now seeking out another player. its definately not the settings on my side cos i've flicked them around more times than makes sense

i still cant get this 96 khz playback to work ): any other suggestions? is powerDVD somehow incompatible with emu 0404 @ 96khz?

or install linux (:

Quote: Originally Posted by gerG I just picked up a new PC. I was cleaning out some of the trash that Dell and Microsoft had installed on the hard drive, when I got fed up with all of the components trying to find a way to report in to the mother ship. I can firewall incoming pests, but...

from what i've heard creative are responsible for destroying decent surround sound technology on pc's

i cant get foobar to play the actual dvd, only the acc files or whatever they are.

Quote: Originally Posted by james__bean I'm actually listening to that very Amon Tobin right now The Amon Tobin would be a 6 channel signal and you only have two channels. Make sure you're doing a 5.1 to stereo conversion with foobar. (Yes, use foobar not crappy WMP) Also I would...

nothing at all ): i've tried fidgeting around with powerdvd's output settings, changing it from 2 speaker to spdif and yadayada, but nothing seems to work !!

i decided to go for it today. i spent 35$ australian dollars on the amon tobin chaos theory soundtrack. the quality is as follows; Audio Coding mode: Packed PCM Sampling Rate: 96kHz Number of Audio channels: 6 Bitrate: 7987 Kbps but when i turn my soundcard to 96khz music listening...

Quote: Originally Posted by Jeff.h what in the good lords name its basically one giant heatsink. no fans whatsoever. i'd imagine it weighs 2 - 3 tonnes.

Quote: Originally Posted by Hawainpanda http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051020/index.html When I first saw that...I thought that would be perfect...what do you guys think? I think its a bit expensive...but then...I can't think of too many other cases that can even store as much...

i've currently got my collection of CDs ripped on lossless using windows media player. Is this the best lossless format around or are there flaws with it?

well i've had the emu 0404 for about a year now. got a set of YAMAHA MSP5A speakers running directly from the soundcard. i rip all my music to Windows Media player lossless format, and im wonderin whether or not there is some better format available. im running the 1.81 update and im...