On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 14:06, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > With these settings sound is audible but not perfectly tuned, > > > > but that's understandable as using nforce2 audio with the > > > > snd-intel8x0 audio is really freaking odd, some settings do very > > > > bizarre things I haven't really worked out yet (I think > > > > something to do with surround sound) and getting good sound is a > > > > matter of trial-and-error tinkering. Hopefully ALSA will manage > > > > to make the options more sane in future... > > > > > > uh? i never had such problems with my nforce2 mb... > > > strange. > > > maybe another revision of the chip... > > > > It's not actually very noticeable casually, but try playing with the > > "3D Control Switch", "3D Control Center" and "3D Control Depth" > > settings while playing some reasonably complex music. You should > > hear the composition of the sound change quite drastically, when > > played over stereo speakers. > > note that neither i've what we called in french a "musical ear" nor > that i'd currently access to my nforce2 mb. > all i can say is that i "feel" that these settings tried to change the > perceived sound but it wasn't so drastic.
It varies a lot across different tracks, some you can't really hear a difference but I have ones where for e.g. one setting will completely remove an instrument, or sometimes even almost completely remove the singer's voice! It's very odd. Next time I find such a track, I can email you a copy? -- adamw
