Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:45:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Sperber <sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: <multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster Live! Player 5.1 Message-ID: <20010720164330.H470-100000@www.omega-project.net> In-Reply-To: <3B584225.D1098BB9@mitre.org>
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote:
> Sperber wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Today i bought the sb live... installed it and as i listened to some music
> > i noticed that the quality was rather low...
> > Has someone experiences with that soundcard?
>
> I have an SB Live and from what I can tell it sounds no worse than
> my old SB16. Sometimes its a little quieter than I'd like (I usually
> have to have the volume set at >75, frequently closer to 95 across
> the board to get anything audible out of the card in FreeBSD, although
> the windows driver needs to be turned down to about 30 or so to be
> tolerable). Also, it doesn't support multichannel audio in FreeBSD
> (IE no /dev/dsp0.1 /dev/dsp0.2 etc...).
>
> In what way is the "quality low" anyway? Is it scratchy? Noisy?
> Tinny? Does it sound like 8bit 4khz audio?
>
> What were you using to test?
I used xmms, and it sounded "overloaded", turning the volume down helped
:)
But sometimes it is scratchy... (the mp3 files are ok...)
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