I'm about to upgrade my sound card,using basic card,any ideas guy's.
i beleave the Creative SB live card or the Monster sound mx300 are the way
to go,comments on either would be appreciated,TIA
In case of GPL there is no difference whether soundcard to choose, they both
work fine and make no difference. But bying any you should consider all the
sides of advantages that one have over another.
Basically I wouldn't recommend bying MX-300 for slow machines like Cl-366 if
you are planning to spend some time to play the games using Direct Sound 3D
(such as Rogue Spear, NHL-2000 ,Unreal ) - it requires more CPU power than
SB Live! - this based on the priciples these cards compute the enivronmental
surroundings. But MX300 A3D computes the waves reflecting from objects and
coming back, while Live EMU10K just emulates the aqoustic properties of the
sound that SHOULD be in some type of enivronment. Thus MX-300 has more
accurate oscillograms of sound waves. This makes it superior in Nascar 3
when program calculates the distance to the walls and other cars returning
waves as an echo. The EMU produces music/sound development more than 10
years, their music accessories are great, and I believe they know how to
make sound. Of their designers said something like "we make not soundwaves
that 100% phisically correct, we make the SOUND itself that sounds
correct.." Note that MX-300 game port is not fully compatible with some of
joysticks/pads that use fourth axes to emulate buttons 5 and 6 . I think
this is because the MX-300 game port uses 3V powering the joy, while Live! -
5V. ( But I didn't check it personally). Of course, you can never meet such
a joysticks. Both of cards may work incorrect in some games. Personally, I
met more these issues with MX-300. I don't mean that card wouldn't work, but
some sounds is not the same the developer wanted you to hear. If you mean
the low-priced cards without daughterboards , then SB Live!'s advantage is
digital CD-IN connector. I have both of them and use MX-300 only for Nascar
III .
The choice is yours.
David Cook
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> David Cook
> wrote...
> > I'm about to upgrade my sound card,using basic card,any ideas guy's.
> > i beleave the Creative SB live card or the Monster sound mx300 are the
way
> > to go,comments on either would be appreciated,TIA
A GPL fanatic friend has an MX-300. I'll post a followup with his impressions
ASAP.
-Greg
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> > I've tried both the MX300 and SBLive with GPL and would recommend the
> > SBLive. I find that with some tweaking the sound is much fuller and I
> > could swear I'm hearing more.
> > David Cook
> > wrote...
> > > I'm about to upgrade my sound card,using basic card,any ideas guy's.
> > > i beleave the Creative SB live card or the Monster sound mx300 are
the
> way
> > > to go,comments on either would be appreciated,TIA
> > I've tried both the MX300 and SBLive with GPL and would recommend the
> > SBLive. I find that with some tweaking the sound is much fuller and I
> > could swear I'm hearing more.
> > David Cook
> > wrote...
> > > I'm about to upgrade my sound card,using basic card,any ideas guy's.
> > > i beleave the Creative SB live card or the Monster sound mx300 are
the
> way
> > > to go,comments on either would be appreciated,TIA