> Just do what I did, soldier hugely shielded RCA cables right by the sound > chip. The sound clearly ouperforms SBLive 5.1 and earlier. DVDs will play > all 6 channels at 24bit, 96KHz.
I take the SPDIF output from the SB Live and run it into the digital input of my Yamaha receiver. So it's a digital connection. The noise I hear must be something added by the SB Live circuitry itself. Either the SB Live on-board signal is converted to analog and back to digital, or the SB Live DSP doesn't have enough precision. Mine's not a 5.1, it's just stereo. I don't care for 5.1 sound for music. I'm not opposed to it for movies, but placing 2 speakers properly is tough enough. Who can place 6 speakers properly? Houses aren't designed for audiophiles, you know... Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now... > Just do what I did, soldier hugely shielded RCA cables right by the sound > chip. The sound clearly ouperforms SBLive 5.1 and earlier. DVDs will play > all 6 channels at 24bit, 96KHz. > > The good sound may be due to my 450 watt power supply which has an AC > leakage current UNDER 0.1ma. Compare that to the normal 1-2ma... > > It also has SPDIF/AC3/AC5.1/DTS digital output in so called Audiophile > grade. This just means it properly passed through the ACx/DTS data > unmodified & at the right clock rate. > > Unlike SBLive, it doesn't pop/click when playing music or games. > > Also, the whole unit has only 3 fans and it's super quiet. > (1 on cpu, 1 on video card, 1 on power supply, Altera's Quartus does > accelerate the fans considerably when compiling jobs which take more than 5 > minutes.) > > > _____________ > Brian Guralnick > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bagotronix Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:17 PM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now... > > > > > I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the > > peripherals, > > > 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid > > > controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by > > Asus > > > > I bet that 24bit/96KHz sound that's on the mobo doesn't sound so good. I > > have yet to find mobo sound that is good. And IIRC, Brian is da man when > it > > comes to hi-fi sound, so he's got to be even pickier than I am. Even my > > Sound Blaster Live card, which is supposed to be a hi-fi card, has > residual > > noise that I can hear during passages of silence. I'd estimate (with my > > earscope) that it has about 14-bits of s/n ratio, even though it's a > 16-bit > > card. The Biostar and Via mobo sound I have is maybe 11-bit s/n ratio, at > > best. > > > > Brian, I'm glad your new mobo still has serial and parallel ports. Oh, > God, > > please don't take away my serial and parallel ports! > > > > I see you are running Protel 99SE on it, and it flys. If you really want > to > > strain it, load the Visual Studio .NET suite on it. I know a developer > who > > says the new .NET stuff slows his dual PIII to a crawl. That's a big > reason > > he is still developing with Visual Studio 6. You can also tax it with > > Autodesk Inventor. > > > > Best regards, > > Ivan Baggett > > Bagotronix Inc. > > website: www.bagotronix.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:19 PM > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now... > > > > > > > I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the > > peripherals, > > > 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid > > > controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by > > Asus > > > ensuring a trouble free 8X AGP functionality. It even more stable than > my > > > old Dual PIII 1 GHz. Also, the 2 X 120 Gbyte Western Digital HDs read & > > > write at over 100 Megabytes / second on a continuous basis. > > > > > > I'm sure if I added 1 card to the PCI bus, the boot time would > > probably > > > double. > > > > > > Additional, I have successfully over clocked this motherboard to 4.1 > > > GHz, though, I don't think it's worth the potential headaches. > > > > > > _____________ > > > Brian Guralnick > > > > > > > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
