Hello everybody,
I am looking desperately for a PCI-E replacement for my glorious Creative Audigy Player, working since 18 years, which has some problems because of its old drivers (both with Win7 and 10)
I have just bought a Sounblaster-Z. It works but... the sound is not so clean and natural as with he old Audigy player. I have disabled all the effects, but anyway it always emphasizes a bit the low frequencies and the fine details of the sound are less clear and defined than with the audigy. Also when recording HI-FI audio, the sound is slightly less defined and less close to the original than with the audigy player. Are fine differences, but for me are enough. I have wasted 71€.
Now I don't want waste again 100€ or more for another board. I hope that someone can advice me a good card.
Here what I need:
1) Recording quality good at least as my old Audigy player, through the line-in input.
2) Ability to record audio "on the fly" (source "What you hear") to grab audio directly from youtube or playing videos.
3) If possible, the DSP sholud not acquire always locked at 48kHz, as it is on the Audigy player and Sounblaster-Z. It gives artifacts with some music. I would like acquire at 44.1 kHz/16bit directly, without internal resampling.
4) If possible, SPDIF optical input.
What I don't use:
Surround, effects, 5.1 or 7.1, gaming features.
If I have understood well, also the Audigy Player FX/RX should have the sampling locked at 48kHz. Fort the rest, could the FX/RX have the same sound and recording quality of my old Audigy?
The SoundBlaster ZxR is quite expensive, and if has the same playback quality of the "Z", and is locket at 48kHz, is not an option.
The soundblasterX AE-5 looks to be made too much for "gaming sound", but I don't know.
My requirement is only a very clean and natural sound (2 channels) in playback and recording.
I don't know about the quality and drivers' features of the Asus boards.
Many thanks to anyone would help me!
I am looking desperately for a PCI-E replacement for my glorious Creative Audigy Player, working since 18 years, which has some problems because of its old drivers (both with Win7 and 10)
I have just bought a Sounblaster-Z. It works but... the sound is not so clean and natural as with he old Audigy player. I have disabled all the effects, but anyway it always emphasizes a bit the low frequencies and the fine details of the sound are less clear and defined than with the audigy. Also when recording HI-FI audio, the sound is slightly less defined and less close to the original than with the audigy player. Are fine differences, but for me are enough. I have wasted 71€.
Now I don't want waste again 100€ or more for another board. I hope that someone can advice me a good card.
Here what I need:
1) Recording quality good at least as my old Audigy player, through the line-in input.
2) Ability to record audio "on the fly" (source "What you hear") to grab audio directly from youtube or playing videos.
3) If possible, the DSP sholud not acquire always locked at 48kHz, as it is on the Audigy player and Sounblaster-Z. It gives artifacts with some music. I would like acquire at 44.1 kHz/16bit directly, without internal resampling.
4) If possible, SPDIF optical input.
What I don't use:
Surround, effects, 5.1 or 7.1, gaming features.
If I have understood well, also the Audigy Player FX/RX should have the sampling locked at 48kHz. Fort the rest, could the FX/RX have the same sound and recording quality of my old Audigy?
The SoundBlaster ZxR is quite expensive, and if has the same playback quality of the "Z", and is locket at 48kHz, is not an option.
The soundblasterX AE-5 looks to be made too much for "gaming sound", but I don't know.
My requirement is only a very clean and natural sound (2 channels) in playback and recording.
I don't know about the quality and drivers' features of the Asus boards.
Many thanks to anyone would help me!
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