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Post #81
Google is a perfectly legitimate way to educate yourself, as long as you use a variety of sources to confirm or disprove what others are saying. Believing otherwise is utter stupidity.
You seem to be ignoring one key part of mine and Thisispains posts. We are saying that the audio should be the same no matter what you use, as it technically should, the 1's and 0's are only meant to interpret in one way (based on codec used), and will produce the same analogue waveform no matter what. But the quality of the DAC in a SPU will affect how the waveform comes out (frequency limits, amplitude limits), and any other "enhancements" on the SPU being used will also affect the output. Not necessarily for the better.
But we are both 100% correct when we say the audio should always be the same thing no matter what interprets it as it can only be interpreted in the same way it was encoded to make sense.
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With the old Realtek integrated in my Sabertooth X58 the sound was good, but on this dedicated Asus Xonar DX I can hear even the instruments clearly and separate the various ones.
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My integrated sound chip died, surprisingly, so i was forced to get a dedicated sound card. Even this crappy rocketfish card sounds soooo much better than the integrated one did.
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so yeah i say it's definitely needed.
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I have a high-end Creative SoundBlaster Live! from circa 1999 that I have switched through three computers. Every mobo audio chipset I've listened to was pure shit, with loads of background static and awful distortion. I am married to my sound card and my circa 1998 Altec Lansing speakers that are the best I have ever heard. Realtek? Nah.
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And I see you're using Windows XP. I doubt the Live! has Windows 7 drivers.
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I didn't really notice noise or anything on my onboard sound, but I bought my dedicated sound card for the amplifier so I could get cleaner audio at high levels, and especially when I use ASIO.
