(so to play it, it has to use the HDMI audio on the GPU.)Īgain, all my experience shows that Creative's support is rather poor under certain conditions. This card has also broken one game (GrooveCoaster) due to it's OpenAL support being different from everyone elses. So you see the the SNR is actually the same, and the only selling point, if it wasn't for how the front-panel audio being awful, is actually the ASIO support. TI ® NE5532 Premium Headset Amplifier (Supports up to 600 ohm headsets) 115dB SNR DAC with differential amplifier I'd stick with the X-fi I still have if I buy another MB for a future CPU unless the onboard audio is better than it, which you'd think there would be an improvement since 2005/2008. Like I would probably consider the GC7 for streaming, but only streaming. Which goes back to the point of sometimes you need certain devices for streaming.
Realtek alc1150 vs sound blaster Pc#
That didn't give me much confidence about Creative's USB products.Ī neighbor bought a Sound Blaster Z and could never get the darn thing to work, it would routinely crash his pc (and that's what prompted me to buy the SB0880, I bought one for him and said "here, watch, this will work without fail" and it did.) I did have a USB creative labs product at one point, (see above about motherboard audio noise) on a C2D system, and one day it the entire kit just died. Creative Labs has traditionally being kind of a scam, often they sell a decent PCIe card, but pretty much everyone elses is better for no other reason than Creative Labs seems to have lost the plot. So YMMV, between your ears and what you buy. Where even when the cooling fans are off, the laptop actively mutes the output when nothing is playing to give the illusion that it's quiet, but when audio actually plays, it's usually very noisey, and to me has a background his equal to 1980's analog stereo equipment, which is to say, sounds equal to or worse than the front-audio motherboard audio. However damn near every laptop, especially new ones, does noise-gating. I put a SB X-Fi (Creative Labs SB0880) into it, using the exact same front audio connector, and the noise is almost non-existent from the front, and I can't hear any from the back. The onboard audio of my AsRock Z87, the rear audio is fine, the front audio is awful. So the end result is that usually "noise" heard can vary.įor example. The older you are, and the more "loud" stuff you've listened to in the past destroys your upper hearing range. It always is, because not all human hearing is the same. They're now properly isolated from the rest of the components for the most part. Nowadays with the newer hardware, noise isn't that much of an issue with internal soundcards or onboard audio anymore. These two are for the headphones use only Only in a sound card or an external dac/amp that can drive the hd 6xx at its 100%, getting all the juice of the low,mids,high,bass,treble etc.Ī sound blaster z or better (soundcard) or external amp/dac (fiio k5 pro?). Im not interested in podcasting/streaming etc
My 6xx works on my onboard sound, but almost every one recomends me to ger amp/dac. My purpose is simple,i plan to use it for better music/sound overall experience. You won't get away with a perfectly clean output regardless, but if you have an exceptionally noisy PC, the PCIe card will pick it up (usually front panel headphone connectors pick up a lot of noise, more so than the rear connection) Where as a USB DAC will avoid some noise, but have latency. That bypasses all the analog noise in the PC in favor of noise in the TV.
Realtek alc1150 vs sound blaster tv#
Personally, if you are using a TV, just plug the HDMI from the GPU directly into your TV, and then use the HDMI audio, and send the audio processing from the TV to your speakers/sound system/headphones. USB has a limited amount of bandwidth, which all USB devices share, which is the main reason why you don't want to run multi-channel audio over USB. However if you are actually doing things like pod-casting, the better podcasting microphones have an analog headphones DAC on them so that you can feed the mic input into the headphones without it being transmitted as a mix. USB DAC's are primarily for Headphones/Microphones and not typically useful for home entertainment setups. The PCIe card is usually the better option if you have a need for analog processing on the computer. I use my sennheiser hd 6xx so i need to know if a soundcard sounds equal or not to an amp dac, because very good soundcards are less expensive than external amp/dacs Hi, i purchased an amp/dac (fiio k5pro) but i still got time to cancel the purchase and get my money back.īut my cuestion is a sound card ( i dont know like a sound blaster one ) would be equal or better than a dac amp like this one ?
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