Tell us about your PC audio equipment

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

I'll start.  Here's the audio hardware I have in my home PC:

Logitech Z-3 40 Watts 2.1 Speakers



Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 Sound Card



Koss PortaPro2 Stereo Headphones

[carlydenise2]

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Logictech 5.1 Surround Sound

We have the same sound card

I don't have any ear phones, I blast my speakers, share the love.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

How long have you had the Xtremesound card?  What's your opinion of it?

I use headphones when I am up after everyone else has gone to bed.  The Portapro is the first set I've had in a long time I can wear for extended periods of time with no discomfort.

[carlydenise2]

I have had it only about 3 weeks.  I like the crystallizer, it cleans up the music pretty well and to me gives it more depth.  The only thing I don't like is the equalizer could have been a little better for 129.00.  But overall I like it, I am just learning as I go how to run it.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

I like the crystallizer as well.  The surroundsound works sometimes, but I find that it makes music noisy for the most part, so I don't have it turned on.

I really did the way the card and software can clean up the noise on mp3s.

[carlydenise2]

At first, I had ALOT of trouble with the bass sounding distorted, and at first I thought my SS was already messed up, but after realizing that I also have window media, real player, rhapsody, and music match, and they ALL have equalizers, and all the equalizers were turned on.  I turned off all the equalizers except for the soundblaster, and it worked better.  It may be coincidence, I don't know alot about the audio on this computer, but it did help some.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

Do you know what the fundamental differences between using "wave" and "what u hear" as recording are?

[carlydenise2]

I haven't messed with that yet using this new software, but I had an earlier version of soundlblaster in my old computer, I remember having to use "what you hear" for recording when I wanted a song to go from my realplayer to the wave studio, also if you want to record a song to send to the wave studio and you are singing on a mic, I always had to use "what you hear".  I don't know the fundamentals of it, I need someone to tutor me about this program, because there is alot one can do with it, I just have to sit down on the weekends and learn about it, the old soundblaster was trial and error learning.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

That's for certain, it comes with ZERO printed documentation, and the help files only get you so far.

I used "what u hear" to record some songs from Rhapsody to make a CD.  I'll be able to say tomorrow how good the CD sounds.

[carlydenise2]

COOL!  never thought of doing that, let me know how it turns out