(TSC)Bender
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 Posted: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:16:37 Post Subject: |
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Unless you have a reasonably good audio setup and/or are an audiophile, you most likely won't notice much of a difference. Just had a friend sell his X-fi a few months ago cause there wasn't much of a noticable difference in audio quality to him. I could tell a clear difference with my rather modest $100 headphones though.
I currently have an X-fi Xtremegamer Fatal1ty edition that I got for free. CMSS-3D works reasonably well, for both speakers and headphones. The upmixing does a good job at separating the channels to accomodate the extra speakers. 5.1/7.1 to two channels on speakers is less impressive, but gets the job done. The highlight for me is the CMSS-3D virtual surround for headphones. It does an excellent job downmixing 5.1 to headphones for positional audio in games, although it lacks the depth of a regular 5.1 speaker system and makes the sound a little tinny to create the effect. Perfect for multiplayer FPS though.
Also beware of the X-fi Xtremeaudio, it's just a rebranded Audigy card. |
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