New sound cards: interesting korean one, and creatives latest

thomas997 · 9th August 2005, 12:14 AM

I noticed a few reviews of a new korean sound card, and it has some cool features.

http://tinyurl.com/8r3a2

- Dolby digital encoding
- Optical and coax connectors
- Socketed op-amps (that they encourage you to upgrade)

Sad thing is the dissapointing rightmark audio test results (crosstalk and interference). If it wasnt for that it would appear to be quite a good card.

Then theres the new creative X-fi that supposedly increases the quality of your low bit mp3s.

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-22364-2435-x-x-x

- The X-Fi chip itself has 51.1 million transistors, 10 times more than Creative's previous chip, the 4.6 million transistor Audigy audio processor.
- 64mb of ram (on certain models)

Personally I hate EAX, I wish games would switch to DD somehow.

Stocker · 9th August 2005, 12:41 AM

No comment on the cards per se, but

Good luck digitally manipulating low-fi data to get it better...

Wouldn't it be interesting if some Linux geek finds a way to run a computer-on-a-soundcard? That is WAY more processing power and RAM than old computers had. The amount of RAM on that card is more than all the hard drives in my house when I was a younger fellow.

squalor · 9th August 2005, 01:06 AM

Quote:

Personally I hate EAX

Me too ! I miss Aureal A3D. Creative bought them so they could kill them.

igge · 17th August 2005, 06:45 PM

If you want high quality soundcards buy a Creamware Pulsar II. They may not be as cheap as Creative or have all that useless EAX or a gazillion transistors. But they do have DSPs & a sexy software package Creative/EMU could never compete with.

9th August 2005, 12:14 AM	#1
thomas997 diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Vancouver	New sound cards: interesting korean one, and creatives latest I noticed a few reviews of a new korean sound card, and it has some cool features. http://tinyurl.com/8r3a2 - Dolby digital encoding - Optical and coax connectors - Socketed op-amps (that they encourage you to upgrade) Sad thing is the dissapointing rightmark audio test results (crosstalk and interference). If it wasnt for that it would appear to be quite a good card. Then theres the new creative X-fi that supposedly increases the quality of your low bit mp3s. http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-22364-2435-x-x-x - The X-Fi chip itself has 51.1 million transistors, 10 times more than Creative's previous chip, the 4.6 million transistor Audigy audio processor. - 64mb of ram (on certain models) Personally I hate EAX, I wish games would switch to DD somehow.

9th August 2005, 12:41 AM	#2
Stocker diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Austin	No comment on the cards per se, but Good luck digitally manipulating low-fi data to get it better... Wouldn't it be interesting if some Linux geek finds a way to run a computer-on-a-soundcard? That is WAY more processing power and RAM than old computers had. The amount of RAM on that card is more than all the hard drives in my house when I was a younger fellow. __________________ Jesus loves you.

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17th August 2005, 06:45 PM	#4
igge diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Skåne	If you want high quality soundcards buy a Creamware Pulsar II. They may not be as cheap as Creative or have all that useless EAX or a gazillion transistors. But they do have DSPs & a sexy software package Creative/EMU could never compete with.