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What's Up With Computer Audio?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-hear-what-i-hear dept.

Mr.Tweak writes "Last month during QuakeCon it became clearly apparent that computer audio has become somewhat of a forgotten component in the computer industry when talking to gamers and listening to companies at the gaming event. We'll present some benchmark numbers of five different sound solutions as well as provide commentary along the way on our thoughts of computer audio solutions and what should be done to improve things using nVidia's SoundStorm APU as an example."

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  1. This is a review? by preatorian · · Score: 0, Troll
    It was all good until I saw:

    via an expensive high-end Onkyo digital receiver and 5.1 Jamo speaker system

    Which just made me laugh. Anyone who thinks Onkyo makes expensive high-end receivers should not really be qualified to do a review. I'm not an audiophile by any means, but I guess they're just letting any highschool kid do these reviews/benchmarks these days....

  2. Re:Creative and mainboard makers is what happened. by Werrismys · · Score: 1, Troll
    Creative has made nothing but crap. This is not a troll.

    The original SB was total crap, SB Pro was little better. SB16 was kinda ok BUT the actual manufacture left everything to be desired. The card had to be carefully placed to minimize the amount of 50Hz hum and other anomalies from the PC hardware around it.

    The Sb Live! was touted as a new world but it was crap. It broke the PCI spec, the drivers were useless, we had to wait over a year for a really working Windows 2000 driver and on Linux side the situation was even worse. It either worked, or didn't. Or messed with some other PCI device. Sb Live! was a sub-par kludge that totally and utterly destroyed any intent I ever had to purchasing another Creative device, ever.

    I haven't tried the Audigy, but because of their track record I believe it sucks as well. I bought a Hercules instead, never have had any trouble, the sound is actually tolerable, and this is a low-end Hercules. Had I bought a Turtle Beach or one of those nice boxed external Hercules devices, I'd be in heaven.

    AMD, VIA, Creative ... crap for the masses. I want things to Just Work.

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