Stefan1971HH
New Head-Fier
Hello everyone,
I've been using the Essence STX on this mainboard
https://www.gigabyte.com/de/Motherboard/GA-890GPA-UD3H-rev-21#ov
and with this speaker system
https://www.edifier.com/int/en/speakers/s530d-2.1-subwoofer
for several years now, mainly for music (CDs and audio files in
lossless compression). The sound has been brilliant, but in the
last few months in began to lack dynamics. It sounds unstable
(to my ears there are sometimes even slight erroneous changes
of the volume) and weak. I had always used the analog output,
but now tried the digital one and experienced the same problem.
What could be the reason? I've recently experienced some other things
such as temporarily disappearing hard disks, that may point to a problem
with the psu (which is an older 500 W from Antec).
Can this also cause decreasing sound quality? Or could a bad psu only
cause the card not to work at all?
Thanks
I've been using the Essence STX on this mainboard
https://www.gigabyte.com/de/Motherboard/GA-890GPA-UD3H-rev-21#ov
and with this speaker system
https://www.edifier.com/int/en/speakers/s530d-2.1-subwoofer
for several years now, mainly for music (CDs and audio files in
lossless compression). The sound has been brilliant, but in the
last few months in began to lack dynamics. It sounds unstable
(to my ears there are sometimes even slight erroneous changes
of the volume) and weak. I had always used the analog output,
but now tried the digital one and experienced the same problem.
What could be the reason? I've recently experienced some other things
such as temporarily disappearing hard disks, that may point to a problem
with the psu (which is an older 500 W from Antec).
Can this also cause decreasing sound quality? Or could a bad psu only
cause the card not to work at all?
Thanks