I do pretty much everything through my laptop - CDs, MP3, DVD, etc, so PC speakers are all that are really neccessary, but can I expect them to give as good...
The WAV -> MP3 is no problem.. it's getting all these songs that I recorded from the radio years ago when CDs weren't the in-thing.. Yeah I could just D/L them from Morpheus but I'm still on dial-up...
It doesn't need to be anything extravagant; the only thing is that the receiver it's going into has 6 seperate inputs for the 5.1 channels, rather than just a single jack which it gets and then...
Yeah the MX400 only has four-speaker though - one out-put for Front L-R and one for Rear L-R. Plus most reviews say the sound quality is noticeably less than the Live! or Vortex2 cards.
I need a sound-card. I'm going to be using it mostly for music, so it needs to have awesome music quality. NOT MIDI - MP3s in particular. It's going to be plugged into the back of my home theatre so...
The SQ2500 has the S/P DIF output, plus digital RCA outputs. The only Live! card that has all of these is the Platinum Live! Drive. Or you can buy a seperate bracket card to give you the outputs.
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I think it was at www.mp3.com that I saw an external amp box for the PC that acted as a sound card, plugged into the USB port, and had various different outputs for a HUGE range of devices. Can't...
Well both the Live! Platinum and the SQ2500 claim to have digital coaxial and S/PDIF optical/digital toslink outputs. I've seen a toslink cable down at the electronics store & the connector looks a...
Okay yeah I guess that makes sense for music, which is what I'll be using it for most of all, but what you said about no EAX.. does that mean no A3D either?? I was quite keen on getting those...
Okay well I'm not sure about the FPS2000 but I do know that Creative putout a system with the digital inpit, designed to connect to the Live! - but since the S/PDIF is the same you could use it with...
Well sure it's good for the money but what are you going to do with it that you can't do with a PCI 128 or whatever you had before that??
That's like buying a P200 just because you could get it for...
okay after numerous suggestions form you guys I've decided to go with the SQ2500 - what I need to know now is, what are the EXACT outputs on the card and how am I going to be able to plug this into...
Really the most important thing is that I can plug my home-theatre into it - four-speaker (well 5.1 but anyway..) out-put direct from the card. The fact that I'd have to get ANOTHER card to be able...
Okay cool I'll have a look at that one.. I have heard a couple of mentions about it on other sites but I didn't pay too much attention to it cos I thought it would be pretty damn hard to get hold of...
What I need is top-quality music output. I want to get a Vortex-based one which has support for both EAX and A3D, so I'm not too keen on going for the Live! cards. Got plenty of CPU power (933 ...
