luxxum
New Head-Fier
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Due to a problem with my computer's audio jack, I have had to use the external sound card that came packaged with a pair of g430 headphones I bought several years ago. Recently it started to fail on me, so I bought a Sound Blaster Audigy Rx sound card to replace it. However, the new sound card sounds worse than the (assumedly) crappy external one.
I don't have the vocabulary to explain what is wrong with it, so I'll give some examples:
in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLYGnCcakpw
the new sound card smooths over any "bite" that the cymbals had at 00:07, taking any of jaggedness out of it. the cymbals in general sound more like a stream than individual hits.
and in
at 00:30, it sound like there is... some kind of white noise laced in with everything? And everything sounds a little flatter. Everything sounds like it has less resolution.
I have disabled the onboard audiocard and downloaded the latest drivers, so that shouldn't be an issue.
Any idea what might be going on? If it matters, the headphones I am using are ATH-M40x's.
Thanks
I don't have the vocabulary to explain what is wrong with it, so I'll give some examples:
in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLYGnCcakpw
the new sound card smooths over any "bite" that the cymbals had at 00:07, taking any of jaggedness out of it. the cymbals in general sound more like a stream than individual hits.
and in
at 00:30, it sound like there is... some kind of white noise laced in with everything? And everything sounds a little flatter. Everything sounds like it has less resolution.
I have disabled the onboard audiocard and downloaded the latest drivers, so that shouldn't be an issue.
Any idea what might be going on? If it matters, the headphones I am using are ATH-M40x's.
Thanks