From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Jul 20 7:45:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from email04.aon.at (WARSL401PIP7.highway.telekom.at [195.3.96.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA3CA37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at) Received: (qmail 404036 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 14:45:02 -0000 Received: from l0821p15.dipool.highway.telekom.at ([62.46.166.143]) (envelope-sender ) by qmail4.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jul 2001 14:45:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:45:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Sperber X-X-Sender: To: Jason Andresen Cc: Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster Live! Player 5.1 In-Reply-To: <3B584225.D1098BB9@mitre.org> Message-ID: <20010720164330.H470-100000@www.omega-project.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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...) - ----------------------------* signature *----------------------------- | _ | | ~\\_ | | \\\\ | | ... .--. . .-. -... . .-. `\\\\\ | | |\\\\\ | | \\\\\|__.--~~\ | | _--~ / | | /~ ////// _-~~~~' | | sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at ('-//////-// | | http://sperber.cjb.net //////(((-) | | /////" | | _///" | | ~ | - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iQEVAwUBO1hgKPZcoSmtQcKZAQHgoAgArnLUwIXz61DWflFdnYU3XukgpgxCWd+2 q7R354yiBdYYpYLfTsSlYwTkvEJk5aZRr7IfirggW2ufjwP0mfsvtF5OMZPz6d3J ROWZ93J9vuDCYERzUWZs6DcJFR/V4MePBdox78YSKQtbwbnBTw54bMoFUgaP4k/m p9VN2n/GATH0yOqHLcjFoZAeXPXGyzNg2Y4jwQPMzX2g5Sm0izdqpztUK40gVSjH oGID0zpZx9xFkQ1vhfL7v0eJwvcCbSO1HY/H+1v0GGrVjKM7gzKi5QNTRtrgSgVK wRGwLHQyK7l+1whxo5QHO4PIpjYuWvUTxaqELU4cIMIOiccsz2G6cw== =bFWt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message