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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-----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
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