On Thu, 27 Jan, 2005 at 05:23PM -0500, Lee Revell spake thus: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 20:18 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi peeps. > > > > Just looking for some quick advice about a new soundcard. > > > > I'm looking at getting something like the M-Audio Audiophile 2496. > > > > This is to replace a SB Live! Value. > > > > Does this seem like a sensible (though cheap) move? I'm expecting a > > better card. > > Make sure the tone control switch is muted. It's not enough to set bass > and treble to 0, you have to disable the switch.
Well, that's not how it works on my card. I have to have the tone control unmuted and the bass turned down to about 25% to stop clipping. If I mute it, the volume seems equivalent to having them both at 50%. Stange. > I am working on improving the emu10k1 driver. But, the Audiophile is > certainly a better card. You get what you pay for, and the SBLive value > is pretty amazing for a $20 soundcard but it's still a $20 soundcard. It was $100 when I bought it, which is about how much I can get the Audiophile for now. I'm just waiting for the cost of every other item I want to fall to this price, too. > Lee > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
