On Friday 28 January 2005 03:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. >
Maybe you've got AC97 capture up? > > 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
