Fastjack
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OK, here goes my second post in this excellent forum:
As I'm planning to get a pair of Etymotic ER4P I thought I might as well also upgrade my source. My Home PC only has an old SB Live and in recent listening-tests I found the sound kinda muffled compared to what my notebook (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook E-Series) put out (strange, I know). Thanks to Head-Fi I soon found out about the Terratec Aureon Sky which seems to be quite ideal for me. Just a few questions remain befor I can finally spend some money
How good do these Sensaura algorithms for virtual 3D-Sound via headphone actually work? As I plan to do a lot of gaming it would be real nice to have a good 3D positioning.
And what kind of .....sources can be used as input for Sensaura? Can I even set my DVD-Software to 5.1 output and let Sensaura do a downmix to headphone or is it just for directSound3D and EAX ?
In case of the Aureon Sky where are the Sensaura calculations done? If they're done in Software by the CPU how big is the impact on framerates ?
And finally: Is Sensaura very dependent on the headphoes you use? I shure hope the Etys will work good with it.
I'd also be gratefull for any other comments regarding the Aureon.
Thanks in advance
Fastjack
As I'm planning to get a pair of Etymotic ER4P I thought I might as well also upgrade my source. My Home PC only has an old SB Live and in recent listening-tests I found the sound kinda muffled compared to what my notebook (Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook E-Series) put out (strange, I know). Thanks to Head-Fi I soon found out about the Terratec Aureon Sky which seems to be quite ideal for me. Just a few questions remain befor I can finally spend some money
How good do these Sensaura algorithms for virtual 3D-Sound via headphone actually work? As I plan to do a lot of gaming it would be real nice to have a good 3D positioning.
And what kind of .....sources can be used as input for Sensaura? Can I even set my DVD-Software to 5.1 output and let Sensaura do a downmix to headphone or is it just for directSound3D and EAX ?
In case of the Aureon Sky where are the Sensaura calculations done? If they're done in Software by the CPU how big is the impact on framerates ?
And finally: Is Sensaura very dependent on the headphoes you use? I shure hope the Etys will work good with it.
I'd also be gratefull for any other comments regarding the Aureon.
Thanks in advance
Fastjack