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Headphoneus Supremus
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It's interesting how you completely disregard what different audio environments bring to gaming, like how different the sound of walking on metal is from walking on wood, which is only a small example.
For you soundstage is all that matter, regardless of what provides you such change. Noted. The purpose of offloading tasks to hardware is that the software runs smoother, and I'm not talking about performance by numbers.
The issues you have is because you keep on pushing surround virtualization software features that are lacking in so many aspects it's not even worth mentioning. But you like them, and that's all that matters, for you.
Clearly, you know nothing of what OpenAL is and can provide, and for that I won't argue further as you refuse to understand or research over the matter. And about your EAX inquiry, refer to my first paragraph.
LOL, you really should stop looking at the word EAX, as it's not the point in case. OpenAL on the other hand, is.
Maybe Surrounder+ should be called "soundstage software expansion for a hardware bugged resampler on a card with misleading specs". A/B tests? I most certainly have, on both different models of first generation Audigy cards and Audigy 2 cards, and FYI, it's noticeable and not in a small manner. mp3 VBR V2/V0, mpc Q9, ogg Q9.5 and FLAC files all showed my point, where there is a more polluted audio when content isn't fed specifically to the only format that's passable on Audigy cards. BTW, I thought that at this point, you would have higher standards for digital audio to make fair comparisons.
But please, get something like a STX and knock yourself out, or find your Audigy 2 ZS card with kX drivers to be the best thing ever made for all time, as long as you can only play back one single output format, meaning a specific bit depth and sample rate, without quite detrimental effects on audio *rolleyes*
For you soundstage is all that matter, regardless of what provides you such change. Noted. The purpose of offloading tasks to hardware is that the software runs smoother, and I'm not talking about performance by numbers.
The issues you have is because you keep on pushing surround virtualization software features that are lacking in so many aspects it's not even worth mentioning. But you like them, and that's all that matters, for you.
Clearly, you know nothing of what OpenAL is and can provide, and for that I won't argue further as you refuse to understand or research over the matter. And about your EAX inquiry, refer to my first paragraph.
LOL, you really should stop looking at the word EAX, as it's not the point in case. OpenAL on the other hand, is.
Maybe Surrounder+ should be called "soundstage software expansion for a hardware bugged resampler on a card with misleading specs". A/B tests? I most certainly have, on both different models of first generation Audigy cards and Audigy 2 cards, and FYI, it's noticeable and not in a small manner. mp3 VBR V2/V0, mpc Q9, ogg Q9.5 and FLAC files all showed my point, where there is a more polluted audio when content isn't fed specifically to the only format that's passable on Audigy cards. BTW, I thought that at this point, you would have higher standards for digital audio to make fair comparisons.
But please, get something like a STX and knock yourself out, or find your Audigy 2 ZS card with kX drivers to be the best thing ever made for all time, as long as you can only play back one single output format, meaning a specific bit depth and sample rate, without quite detrimental effects on audio *rolleyes*