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Old May 6, 2004, 06:43 PM   #31
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Until I get my payment for my job, which should be in the next week or two ($800) I will pick up an X800XT and probably RAM and a night on the town with the wife. Can't wait.

Just not sure if doing the Vid card is a good idea with PCI Express so close to coming. Gota think about it.
I'd buy it- with it being such a novelty, you could sell it used on e-bay for almost full price after you get done w/ it I bet.
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soundstorm is OK… i only use it on the rare occasions that i play games
but my soundblaster live! is still a pretty decent card
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Sound Storm has never done me wrong. Very low CPU usage. Pretty good quality sound. I do not need 10 software programs running to use it, just the NVMixer (and that is optional). And it came free on my motherboard.
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oh so you ended up scrapping the search for a hercules card..... hopefully something in the future will be like hercules.. or hercules spits out another good card.... DAMN i hate creative
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i don't hate creative, just creative drivers
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oh so you ended up scrapping the search for a hercules card..... hopefully something in the future will be like hercules.. or hercules spits out another good card.... DAMN i hate creative
Yeah I wish they would too-- maybe something like a Herc Fort III 7.1 but just with even higher sound quality and of course updated DSP's.

Oh, this is a good review of the Fort III (page where he compares the music quality)

http://www.guru3d.com/review/hercules/fortissimo3/
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a full 64 bit compliant... 32 bit output... (32BIT allround and not this BS 24/16/16/16)
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32 bit reolustion output? useless, 24 bit is a higher dynamic range than our ears can actually hear
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32 bit reolustion output? useless, 24 bit is a higher dynamic range than our ears can actually hear
Indeed truly useless unless your planning on doing some Super DVD multi channel setup for recording, which about 50 people on the planet could actually listen to.
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it's not the range... it's the abilities you can do.... also more quality done the pipe... as the signals are tranfered and processed.. they degrade... with 32 bit... there would be degredation that would result in better output yet then 24 bit...THAT would be noticeable...

BTW... 96khz is pretty damn sweet.... I can seriously hear a major difference between it and 44/48khz... (me loves my sister yamaha amplifier and excellent speakers)
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you don;t need any higher a resolution… its the samplerate that counts
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it's not the range... it's the abilities you can do.... also more quality done the pipe... as the signals are tranfered and processed.. they degrade... with 32 bit... there would be degredation that would result in better output yet then 24 bit...THAT would be noticeable...

BTW... 96khz is pretty damn sweet.... I can seriously hear a major difference between it and 44/48khz... (me loves my sister yamaha amplifier and excellent speakers)
Digital signals degrade? What are you talking about? Of course being able to sample a "live" source at the highest bitrate is the ideal means. Have you ever heard any of the new audio formats? Yes, can hear a difference in 16 - 24 bit. If you think 96KHz is something try 192KHz.

Trying using a Delta 1010 for a week and tell me how bad 24 bit really is. I don't know of any 32 bit hard disk recorders...there is reason why.
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file size of true 32 bit recordings would be large… very large especially at 192khz
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I think I've always had Creative cards, at least for as long as I can remember. SB16, AWE32, Audigy1 and now an Audigy2 with Audigy2 ZS drivers and apps.

I love it.

None of the cards have given me any problems so far so I can recommend them.

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