Just got my X-Fi Platinum

BONEHEAD · Dec 27, 2005, 08:32 PM

Well ups just deliverd my new sound card. Put it in and man this is a huge step from my A2zs. The sound quality is unbelivable. Cost 180 shipped from amazon. I realy did not need it but since a MAJOR system upgrade is the near future I decided to get new sound first.

It seems avery new product from cl they decide to remove features. I like the "Living Room" in cmss but now that is gone, oh well. The bass is very strong, and even stronger when 15db boost is enabled.

Now I need to go get another firewire card

I gave mine away cause the zs has firewire, but that card will never see my system agian.

BONEHEAD · Dec 27, 2005, 08:57 PM

Oh for those wanting to know about the zs dive working w/ this card I will test this weekend. And post my results. I know the connector cable is exactly the same as I am using withe Xfi card and drive.

BONEHEAD · Dec 28, 2005, 06:09 PM

Well I just hooked up the zs drive and it renders the xfi usless, when I booted the computer I had no sound, but the software said I had the card. So I guess the answer is NO you cannot use the zs drive on the xfi cards.

No_Style · Dec 28, 2005, 06:19 PM

I was looking at the X-Fi Xtrememusic card... I'm glad people are finding noticeable improvements over the Audigy 2 ZS with the X-Fi series.

***temeteus82*** · Dec 28, 2005, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by No_Style

I was looking at the X-Fi Xtrememusic card... I'm glad people are finding noticeable improvements over the Audigy 2 ZS with the X-Fi series.

From Live 5.1 to eXtreme music it was huge leap forward

Shakey_Jake33 · Dec 29, 2005, 05:13 AM

I'm hearing nothing but good things about moving up from the A2ZS to this card. I did expect the difference to be incremental, but it does seem to be pretty large after all.

How are the 24bit crystaliser and the new CMSS options? Do they live up to the hype?

***temeteus82*** · Dec 29, 2005, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Shakey_Jake33

How are the 24bit crystaliser and the new CMSS options? Do they live up to the hype?

I vote for yes in this case....

Rogacz · Dec 30, 2005, 09:48 AM

CMSS is really great, especialy the stereo expand option, and Headphone mode in CMSS. Stereo expand is great, but can't be used in all music genres, but headphone one is just awesome. It makes me forget that I'm wearing headphones.

Crystalizer is nice too. I've got it set on 100% for all the time and it's really nice to hear music with this.

However don't believe cl that it will make your mp3's even better than oryginal cd ;]

It makes good music to sound better, that's all ;-)

sovietdoc · Dec 30, 2005, 11:10 PM

Meh, I picked up one of those extreme music cards from best buy and noticed no difference in sound quality. So I just returned it and stopped caring. I guess with enough high end speakers you can't hear the difference if using X-Fi drivers on Audigy anyways.

Robert McClelland · Dec 30, 2005, 11:45 PM

Can you upload your Image ISO cd for us? hehe some of trying mod it :P you can used filefactory

just google it

heheh

**dj_stick** · Dec 31, 2005, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by sovietdoc

Meh, I picked up one of those extreme music cards from best buy and noticed no difference in sound quality. So I just returned it and stopped caring. I guess with enough high end speakers you can't hear the difference if using X-Fi drivers on Audigy anyways.

that's actually not true

the quality of sound is mainly based on the hardware, not software (unless you have poorly coded,ala creative, drivers). but the quality of an x-fi cannot possibly be obtained with an audigy

GeneralClaymore · Dec 31, 2005, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Rogacz

CMSS is really great, especialy the stereo expand option, and Headphone mode in CMSS. Stereo expand is great, but can't be used in all music genres, but headphone one is just awesome. It makes me forget that I'm wearing headphones.

Crystalizer is nice too. I've got it set on 100% for all the time and it's really nice to hear music with this.

However don't believe cl that it will make your mp3's even better than oryginal cd ;]

It makes good music to sound better, that's all ;-)

i dont know about you but it did make my mp3 sound better then before with it reguardless what you say.

Necrosis · Dec 31, 2005, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by dj_stick

that's actually not true

the quality of sound is mainly based on the hardware, not software (unless you have poorly coded,ala creative, drivers). but the quality of an x-fi cannot possibly be obtained with an audigy

I agree with this as well. I love my card, and wouldn't go back to any of the previous versions.

Shakey_Jake33 · Dec 31, 2005, 05:27 AM

Dammit!

I did hope I could avoid this upgrade and save some cash. I'm not an audiophile or anything, but my new speakers have got me 'in the mood', and how you guys have got me convinced I *need* and X-Fi! =P

That said, good to hear it's a real upgrade, none of the nonsense that was the Audigy4.

BONEHEAD · Dec 31, 2005, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert McClelland

Can you upload your Image ISO cd for us? hehe some of trying mod it :P you can used filefactory

just google it

heheh

Will do.
SB_INSTALL.rar of size 438.893 MB
Reuploading.

Robert McClelland · Jan 3, 2006, 12:35 AM

Thanks dude your awesome

I pass it along to Leon

Robert McClelland · Jan 3, 2006, 11:59 AM

reupload the file it has fail

BONEHEAD · Jan 3, 2006, 08:38 PM

I'm going to have to find another site.

sarelc · Jan 3, 2006, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_stick

the quality of sound is mainly based on the hardware, not software (unless you have poorly coded,ala creative, drivers)...

But these are creative drivers, heheh.

The audio codecs themselves also has a lot to do with it - if you have some good headphones, plug them into your soundcard and listen to some of the low frequency M4A clips found here with different players (they may prompt to save as .mp3 due to the site's configuration, so rename them). The difference between the output from winamp's decoder and quicktime, for instance, is rather distressing, especially when qt isn't originally for the pc platform!
I don't really agree with Creative saying the X-Fi bass boost is 15dB, while it is "true" in a sense, in practice the output should only be about 5dB more than the other channels, due to it being normally attenuated by about 10dB to comply with Dolby's specs

g35x · Jan 4, 2006, 07:50 AM

i have an xtreme music and i thought i was crazy for spending that much on sound but id heard how good it was and wanted to go all out on my computer the CMSS headphone thing is amazeing it blew me away ive never been better at counter-strike source on the small user-created maps i play on i can hear where everyone is =p

BONEHEAD · Jan 4, 2006, 07:29 PM

I tried to upload to several diff. places and did not work so I can do this.
My comp is on 24/7 so I will keep emule running.

ftp://66.25.177.130/

My ftp site.