pfschim
join:2001-08-30
Livermore, CA
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Re: moving from 1st gen Audigy to X-Fi Audio Card - lost 4.1
I am using Winamp as the player, and its a known good source for my audio library.
I did see the Windows Media Player DRM issue come up, but I am not using WMP, so that's not the issue.
I don't know if I was getting true "surround", just front and rear outputs. I'm not sure how the Audigy card is different from the X-Fi, but the Audigy would allow me to use both 4.1 and 5.1 settings for my 4.1 speaker set-up. The 5.1 setting was pretty cool because it seemed to "ghost" a center channel that is physically not there. My default on the old XP system was using the Audigy card's 5.1 setting, which gave a very nice wide field sound to my speakers.
I have been looking all over the X-Fi settings and have not seen a control that remedied this situation.
Could it be the speakers, or the configuration of the subs DIN input ?
This is not a huge deal, but I do use this system all the time for playing music while I work, and it's kind of a pain that the newer system has less quality sound than the old one. It's the only remaining issue I have left to tackle in the move from the old system.
Thanks for the input (no pun intended) so far |
