best sound card for g4oo max?

[space7]

(Sorry for my engish).I'm nt very experienced with video card G400 is one of my first(I'm a ex-mac user).But sound cality is my domain. I had the chance to use the to card and I recommand you for the sound cality the sound blaster value. The main aventage to have the sbv is his cristel clear middle end treble cality. If you are a gamer it is a good choise to. For a bass respond it is a another ting, the mx300 seem to have a better bass. But it is viruel for game his bass respond seem to be exelent but in reality it is not the trou input bass. If you listen classical music you gony her the vituality of bass respond. OK you gonna say that the SBL to have a vitual sound. But the virtuality of the sound is make to imrouve the accuracy and the reproduction of real enviromental sound. If you have a cheat speaker set you gonna not hear the difference. You have to by a set that don't just have a good bass respond but also the middle and the trebble. Please don't by the microwork.One of my frend have it and just bass get out of that ting that is just not naturel. What you need with you SBL(because I suppose that you juse the SBL)is a good set of speaker that have independant emplifier one for right and one for left. Because with enviromental sound you have frequently a beg potentiel difference between right and left because of that the speaker that take the bigest power from the amplifier don't let a power for the another this result of sound distortion 3D effect problem. Because of that people says the MX300 have a better 3D sound. If you give to your SBL the set of speaker that it need you gonna see the difference. I recommand you 2 yamaha yst-M100 set(1 full channel amplifier per speaker) and a good subwafer. If you gut not $ to spend for 2 set and a subwafer then by 1 set and no subwafer the bass respond is exelent without a suwafer. OK is a fact that the SBL take more power from the CPU, this is the price to pay for the sound cality

[PurpleHaze]

Well, yeah, I haven't seen any "computer speakers" that appeal to me at all. But I spent $300 on the dang headphones, and I just can't find a card on the market that doesn't force me to "listen to my hard drives" (chirping sounds whenever there's read/write activity) .. I just want to see some mfr put rfi shielding on these things, and stop going on about having 95,000 simultaneous MIDI voices.

[KvHagedorn]

Have you tried Dynamat, Ami? That's the sound deadening material they use in cars. Just put a couple of patches of the stuff inside your case and see if it helps. Couldn't hurt.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[PurpleHaze]

Heh, as far as heat and air flow goes, yeah, it probably could hurt

[SteveC]

That's sound deadening stuff, not sheilding stuff. Put some aluminium foil in a plastic bag and cover your soundcard, that might help!

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[PurpleHaze]

So now i'm gonna have an overheating computer that's shorting out. Neat

[SteveC]

That's why I said put it in a plastic bag.

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[PurpleHaze]

Okay so put the bag around the card and put the foil around the bag And then put a bag on top of that? Hey why hasn't anyone else tried this! (roll eyes) heh

[SteveC]

You just have NO spirit of adventure, do you?

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[KvHagedorn]

Ami, dynamat is flat. It would have no effect on air circulation. You are thinking of those egg-carton looking things they put in anechoic chambers. (I wouldn't use that.) The dynamat would just deaden the other surfaces inside the case so they would not resonate the sound. It would help. Be glad you've got Cheetahs. My Cheetah doesn't make nearly as much noise as my IBM 9GB ZX drive. The ZX gets hotter too.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[PurpleHaze]

Yeah I know it's flat, I've seen it but I figured it was kind of thick and heavy anyways, and hard to cut around to uncover vents? Never actually messed with the stuff. Might actually be a nice idea because my system -is- really loud.

Eh, the cheetahs get pretty freeking hot. Can't hold it in your hand sort of hot.

ami

[This message has been edited by PurpleHaze (edited 09-22-1999).]

[Brian R.]

My IBM SCSI HD gets so hot you can't touch it without cooling. I ended up with a tower case with an internal 9-cm fan blowing directly on it. Probably adds to the noise, but I'll live with it. That idea of sound deadening material is a winner (as long as you don't obstruct airflow). I'm going to try it in my case, just on the sides which pivot open.

Brian

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