On Fri, 28 Jan, 2005 at 07:10PM -0500, John Check spake thus: > 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've had it up and down, but still this is reversed for me. Having the bass and treble at less than 50% is quieter than muting the tone control. It seems I have managed to do my usual trick of buying the "magic" version of a product. The one that's slightly different to everyone else's, in odd ways. > > > 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)
