The Last Sound Card You Will Ever Need! (Creative AE5 RGB)
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you should make a video talking about your past as a programmer.
I'd watch it.
Same.
Hi Tech of Tomorrow, I believe the "molex" power port on the card is for the RGB lighting only. Otherwise, the card does not need external power.
Do we really need RGB on a sound card?
Of course it makes it sound better,, LOL JK
Eric C Yes. It increases your max sound overclocks by up to 300%
Do not forget the obligatory alternate ending you get with RGB in every single game you play with it enabled!
I built my rig into a gateway case from 98... Needless to say the RGB lighting that came with some of my components was unnecessary.
Yes. For the same reasons we need it everywhere else.
Good morning everyone....
Tech of Tomorrow dat feeling when you're from middle Europe and its 6 pm. Good morning Man
Good morning and here evening from the Netherlands
Tech of Tomorrow what up bro and have a great one
19:04 in Finland
Hey Calvin I hope you are doing well my friend...
This is not for everyone as you said, my friend and dad are musicians, so they always buy a new soundcard because they also use the MIDI synthetizers on the soundcard which is never good in a motherboard's card, most of the times you can't upload sound fonts banks to an integrated soundcard.
Great video as always man.
Thank you m8
I can answer that, and the answer is YES you can, actually with pro microphones and with higher sample rate, it means, a lot better quality.
1 x 1/8" (3.5mm) Mic In/Line In
hey, look everyone. I've got this great idea! let's put LEDs on the ONE component in the system we DON'T want electrical interference on!
lol
I'm pretty sure you don't want electrical interference in ANY computer components.
Creative were the Daddy of sound cards. Great to see them back doing what they do best.
Why are so many ppl asking about his nerve damage??? You all act like this is his first video. And there's a difference between caring and being rude.
Thank you
Lance Seaman why do people stop and stare at a car crash? Because they are morons with no lives.
Hey, no matter the condition, you still make great videos. That's what matters.
If this is the first video someone watched of his (It is for me) is it surprising that they'd ask? Of course it's no one's business but It's not rude to ask.
Robert Adams I understand but like I said there's a difference between rude and caring enough to ask a respectful question.
I'm still using my 250$Creative soundcard from 2006 haha, and the sound is beautiful.
I just got this card yesterday. The review is not blowing smoke - it is absolutely amazing.
Got mine a few days ago too, previously had the Z. This card is a major improvement.
Linus had to redo the rgb build
This is alot better reveiw then the one I came from. You actually tested the card and showed its functions. goodjob
im a fan of sound cards like this still, and I'm old school like you. I have the Creative X-fi Titanium HD Pci-e which is still going strong 7 years later. 122dB SNR like this one. Creative knows what they are doing for sure, and if I were to buy one today, it would be this thing.
As a Video / Audiophile I have always used a sound card and always will. Currently I use a a Omega Eclaro out to Acoustic research optical cable to a Yamaha rx-v467 out to a Paradigm CT-70 5.1 speaker set with 2 PDR Ten subs. Calibrated the whole setup in room with a pro SPL Meter and touched it up with a very mild EQ. Playing BF4 , Crysis 3 or many other games on it is a surreal experience for me. Each gun shot hits you in the chest and every last detail in the sound coming at you from all corners of the room in perfect real time direction is a addicting thing indeed. So yeah i can totally appreciate this sound card. Nice to see that effort being put back into sound cards, I dig it a lot !! Another great vid my friend and take care of your self to ok.
The nicest thing about the modern soundblaster hardware is they offer a 'Direct Mode', which bypasses ALL DSP, it is a direct path from the DAC directly to the audio output. I wish they would advirtise this instead of all the DSP garbage, but DSP garbage is what sells. 'Audiophiles' should also be happy with the direct mode it offers, as it really does give you absolutely clean audio out.
I have the Creative Soud Blaster Z sound card & I can tell you that other than the aesthetic & RGB it's the same & much cheaper. The software looks different (since it's got a new UI), but 90% of what you showed is on the SBZ... aside from another 4db & slightly lower bitrate.
In the UK the new card is £119 on their website & mine is £79.99, I know where I'd spend the change... beer tokens!
Hi there. Do these cards truely by pass the motherboard? The reason I'm looking into at least the verry least this AE 5 is because I've had it with the silly Realtek gimiks. Now I do to be fair have a Zoom H6 and yes in interface mode it does use an ASIO driver thus it's all true pure H6 audio. Thing is as I said I've had it with Dell audio and I don't wana use the H6 too much as an interface cause then you can't obviously use it as a recorder. But what say you? Are these sound cards worth it? Or does even a prosumer recorder and interface like the H6 beat their ass?
i like the idea of using your phone or tablet as a HUD in FPS. youre looking at the HUD anyways using peripheral sight now its more of a physical component to the graphic interface
Woah woah woah woah, lets be real here, you and I both know RGB draws would be awesome.
with quality headphones, you will hear a difference with Sound card VS onboard.
Still using my TitaniumHD pcie with win10 insider preview.
yes this card makes onboard sound like a transistor radio
I can't stop looking at his shaking hands.
I prefer usb cards because you can use them with laptops. I own one, but it's not 5.1 or 7.1, it's just stereo, but it's a recording card and it supports plugging in your guitar, a top-tier condenser microphone, a high-end headphones, has midi in and out and costs about the same.
I already have Sound Blaster Z, almost identical features. Thank god, No rgb since it was before RGB craze. I'm more into looking at my game then looking at my case.
Also paying 150$+ Tax&Import fees for just a marginal gain doesn't seems good enough.
Uh I almost forgot, no Optical Audio In with AE5. So I won't be able to capture sound from my Consoles. Which is a huge back step towards features I think.
Edit: Felt it was too dark comment so little bit clearing the comment; It is a good card, but not good enough to upgrade the existing ones.
You'll get amazing sound quality over any gaming motherboard that's for sure.
The sound car DOES NOT require the power cable to be plugged in. It's only required for the LED lights.
If you want a killer sound you get an Audio interface and 2 active HQ monitors. That is the best sound, and you have the capability to use instruments and studio microphones if you want in the future
The onboard sound chips in both my two Gaming PC's died, after a Lan-party since they where not grounded.
And i'm glad that i had a old Sound Blaster X-fi Titanium pci-e but sadly only one, i wanna check out Creative new one.
Thanks "Tech of Tomorrow" for making this video :-)
I can see soundcards make a comback only if the maker of games dosome tweaking for sounds in game to hear the game audio through the settings that they want you to experience it. It would just be a sound engineer developing some preset audio settings and maybe even developing an equalizer that chnges during different moments of the game to add a cool evolving role in games. I see that function as giving a new gaming experience they can build on.
sounndblaster has always been good in my opinion iv used the same sound blaster card for 10 years and it sill rocks out
I'm surprised to see Soundblaster STILL going. Added it to my planned build. I need to win a small lottery to afford the build I'm working on for myself. Worth it? Definitely.
So I just discovered yesterday that I some how got ahead an entire month on my car payment and now I know what I'm using that extra cash for :D
the onboard sound of my motherboard is fantastic (Crosshair Hero) with some similar features and nearly compatible specs with this sound card, and I want to try this card
Really amazing product, used Creative products for so many years. But would never choose it over high-end external sound card.
most high end motherboards usually now come with its dedicated sound/amp
I would certainly not say this is the last sound card you will ever need. No optical input, the mic is shared with line in, no DTS/DDL on the optical out (granted that bypasses the nice DACs on this), and then we have Creative's absolutely stellar support track record to deal with. (see the sarcasm there) You can rest assured that in just a few years time Creative will drop support for this like nearly every card before it, leaving you in a world of driver hell trying to get it to work with the latest version of Windows 10.
While this is no doubt one of the finest 5.1 cards out there, and creative's audio software is what really makes it shine (when you get it to work that is), its price point is a bit high considering both what company we are dealing with and key features that you may end up still needing your onboard sound to make up for. I honestly wish Creative would just license SBX software for use on any hardware. Think how awesome it would be to have all those features over an uncompressed 7.1 stream though your video card's HDMI. I thought AMD's TrueAudio would be just that, but I think that just sorta disappeared.
I am partly deaf, so the scout mode feature would help me, if it works in Arma 3 xD
The vikings add reminded me of the Norsca DLC for TW: Warhammer and I am pumped!
People should just know that it's better to buy good speakers than a sound card. My personal choice was to go with a half decent set of Alesis studio monitors. I also tried very expensive monitors from a fairly well known boutique manufacturer which lasted less than a month. And external sound cards might also be a better option. Ultimately the on-board sound was good enough for me after I got my current monitors.
And I've tried sound cards. I really have. I just believe extra sound amp should not come from within the box. I've had OS bugs, MRI, sound glitches. But I trust your review on this one though. You clearly are aware of the issues that often come up.
not really a big fan of a dedicated sound card anymore, but glad creative bring them back
If you have had a decent sound card and speaker set up for your system, you will already know just how good they are. I just use my MB one now but sure as hell would consider a dedicated SC again
Went back to utilizing a sound card with my current gaming rig, which I built in April of last year. This is the the sound card I have installed: Sound Blaster Zx... us.creative.com/p/sound-cards/sound-blaster-zx May look into the AE5 with my next build, but that won't be until sometime in 2020 at the earliest. Though, by that time, something even newer might be out.
Go easy on the "Scout" judgement because it's really for people who has echolocation or hearing impairment disability. You may be good with your ears, but there are people who can't hear well ends up using their eyes far better and quicker than what you're complaining about.
Scout Mode would be absolutely incredible for PUBG. The positional audio in that game is so bad sometimes that setting up a dock up in front of your monitor with an app open that showed you where people were shooting from would be infinitely valuable.
my hd598 sounds like crap with onboard sound, even my 20$ asus xonar dg makes an incredible difference
why would you use some hd598 with onboard audio lol
What mobo?
you could have gotten a dac
High end motherboards provide better DAC/AMP than the one in the Xonar DG
Commodorefan64 just get a pci riser card. That's what I did for mine :D. Even better is if you have a vertical pci slot in your case like on the Fractal Design Define and ARC cases (I personally use the ARC Midi R2 and this setup works brilliantly.)
Have not used a sound card in ages, and honestly, I miss having one. Every computer I installed a sound card into sounded so much better that it did without the sound card. I would like to see a resurgence of these components. That might bring the cost down, while elevating the overall audio experience, whether it be in-game or listening to music via headphone or external speakers.
The X-Fi APU is still the best, fastest and most advanced sound chip Creative ever designed. No chip since then has better hardware accelerated 3D sound. Yes, these amps and signal to noise levels are better, but the X-Fi's were good as well.
When you ever played games like Thief II with EAX and positional 3D audio you know what I mean. Too bad MS basically killed off hardware accelerated 3D sound since Vista.
You’re wrong. No chip since the ca 1998 aureal vortex 2 has anything close to that level of positional audio. You can actually tell above and below (elevation filter). I’ve tried my damndest with X-fi and it is a pale copy in comparison.
@@soylentgreenb you are wrong, no chip beats the SID of my C64
@@shaolin95 The SID was nice for it's time and only having 3 channels forced game devs to use arpeggios and other interesting workarounds, but there is nothing your SID chip can do that even a 486 DX2-66 cannot emulate in real time in software pretty accurately. You can say, oh, that doesn't sound like the real thing; but neither did the real thing; not two damned SID chips sounded quite alike; if you used the filters you were especially fucked, what was awesome on one C64 sounded harsh and crappy on another.
Vortex 2 would technically also be reduced to just computation, despite doing some analog trickery, nobody has yet matched its 3D positional audio. Not even close.
Great video. By far the best review I have found on the AE5. Finally in-depth details!! Thank you much! Looking forward to upgrading my Sound Blaster Z, I heard this Sabre DAC is a pretty big upgrade over the Circus DAC in the SBZ. Also that dedicated Headphone AMP looks killer.
I would actually really like Scout mode tbh. My stereo hearing capabilities are pretty muted because of health/anatomy reasons, so having something to visualize positioning would be extremely helpful. Or something that accommodates my hearing issues dynamically. that would also be dope.
This sound card is on my wish list for long already but right now, I have more important (life depending) priorities.
Once I have the money, I might as well go for some sweet receiver that takes the signal via toslink and output it using my 120W Magnat speakers.
Cool, might get it, the most important feature (besides) that it seems good itself, is that you seem to be able to *disable* the RGB lighting, good.. good.
I have the Gigabyte Gaming 5 X370 board, and the audio output is fantastic. I was genuinely impressed, given I listen to FLAC and Hi res audio, from my LG V20 too.
Tech of Tomorrow
How does this sound card compare to the X7 of Creative? That is the big question I hoped to be answered.
For all the rest, don't neglect the sound when you game and play movies and shows on your computer. It is about as important as what you see. Invest like $100-200 in a good heaphone and the same in a good sound solution. It is worth it and it lasts a lot longer than a graphics card.
the scout mode i think is more meant with tablets in mind,some people have those tablet stands next to their systems.
Still using a Xi-Fi Gaming. Its by far the oldest piece of Hardware that is still in use in my PC. It offers Soundquality that is superior to any Onboardsound i have ever had.
I am using this too. It has lasted me through 2 builds and still going strong. Sadly, my next build will not have a PCI slot.
Projectmungo The only reason why I stopped using my titanium is because I couldn't find windows 10 drivers
Too bad, cause Windows 10 drivers do exist. Both official and unofficial. Google for "Daniel_K's Official Blog" for customized drivers or do search on creative support webpage for official drivers ( they may be somewhat unstable).
Same here, X-Fi Gamer. Got back in 2005. Sad that the Z and the AE-5 just seems lacking with features the X-Fi software has. EAX effects in Entertainment mode, Stereo Surround or Stereo expand. Game Mode with CMSS-3D upmixing for games without surround sound. But, when the time comes for upgrading to a new mobo. I would likely get the Z series. It's software isn't as cluttered like the AE-5's.
Sound blaster's coming back boys!
DEYUM... Never thought creative audio cards would come back, getting sick and tired of on board sound card always focusing on the bass while sacrificing clarity.
Dammit. Now i want one of these. Didn't know about the story with crystalizer. Very cool Elric. Thanks for the review and demo.
I bought this, has yet to install it on a new build. I always go with a sound card because I don't want to add a DAC on my already cluttered desk.
Call me old-school, but I like having a sound card in my system. Might sell my ZxR for the AE5, I really like the new UI.
sounds like any supreme gaming rig must have
Bought this sound card and sound amazing with my hd6xx
Xonar D2X has this. DTS straight to reciever for perfect 5.1 sound. For hifi headphones get a dac and an amp.
I was just staring at the camera lens on the table on the right wobbling this whole video....
Its nice I'm sure but some motherboards put pretty decent ones on-board with extra power and such.
But the biggest issue is most headsets are USB vs analog out of the system so they use their own internal card rendering the whole thing pointless.
If your system has an SPDIF / Optical out you can get a headset to feed off of that which is a good deal just pricey.
Still limited to 5.1....I'll happily keep my SoundBlaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Champion with front I/O. :)
I'm eying the Tiamat 7.1 v2, but as it stands, I'll have to use it with my RIVE's onboard audio to use all channels if I ever take the plunge on those.
I'll look into this further, but not making the DAC external to the case made the S/N ratio go for a shit on the X-Fi Elite Pro that I use in my media server.
I hope they've got better shielding and power filtering for this new card.
Thank you for all the videos u have done
Welcome...
I already have a Xonar Essence STX, I love that card. I'd only replace it for a good DAC, but also I use a lot the sound effects and the equalizer.
This is the third review I have watched on this card and this is the third reviewer who has not said a single thing about what the quality of the Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 / 7.1 surround sound is like. Alright moving on to the next review.
You can get up to 7.1 lossless audio for free from your GPU's output. You will need an HDMI receiver capable of 7.1 but no soundcard is required.
MUMOD BIOS I been running my computer though my receiver for years now and never going back.
something tells me this is a true sound card and not one of them shite software based ones that will sometimes require you to have to disable the onboard because it's using the CPU just like the onboard was, I think this card might have its own kind of CPU onboard which is a big bonus to sound qulity
Its hardware based.
The app could be useful if you have in your setup an included stand/holder for your phone like that Logitech G910 Orion dock for example. I'm still in agreement with you that I wouldn't use it. But it is kinda neat, like having an auxiliary display.
I got one of these and it has great sound, way better than the onboard sound on my Cosshair VI motherboard. the RGB is also nice and another part in my RGB lit build.
You should add an update to your video. The sound card does NOT require external power to work. The molex connector is only if you want to attach the RGB controller to work with 4 stripes.
30% more clarity, lol.... This is an advert not a review.
Valid argument but I want this card.
Indeed
@@galahadthreepwood9394 Btw I tried the card and its shit. In every way imaginable.
Demon Posessed you cant afford it, peasant.
@@Razzaq585 Why do you say this? Do you own it and it performs well? I used it and it performed like *SHIT* , if you want I can elaborate, btw. that peasant comment is ridiculously immature. But you probably use youtube as a source of attention because your real life sucks?
The scout mode would be so OP in Battlegrounds. Many times someone shoots at you from over 200m away in the game and it's very difficult to acertain where the shooter is. Yes you would have enough time to check the phone
The last time I looked at the Creative site, they were still selling mp3 players. So yeah, it's been a while.
No optical in. Well that's disappointing.
***** You saw optical out not optical in
i use a sounblaster Audigy platinium from 2001 has optical fiber input and output lmfao
Into another PC
Or recording a Vinyl directly in the PC
Why would you need an in? Only out is important if youd like to bypass or use a external amp dac solution?
Molex in 2017 lol
Ummm....yeah. That caught me a bit off-guard as well.
John Doe that killed my bonner. Its an instant deny! Fuck molex seriously! And how the fuck does this need dedicated power? Thats a buzz kill, should be powered by the pcie slot.
Yea they should have at least used SATA power lol
But PSU makers still love molex
I suppose the external power is for the RGB, but still....Molex? I'm not hating on Molex, but we are at a point where I think Molex connectors are starting to get phased out from many PSU makers. Everything is SATA these days.
Sound blaster was good back in the day when something like this was needed vs PC speaker, but they made something no one asked for and really is just to fill a niche market that is tiny.
Got this card today. Very nice and fast Asio playback. Shakes my Sennheiser HD 650 wonderfully :) very well separated stereo channel sound. My previous Titanium HD was produced to play good hi fi speakers, but headphone out lacked power and resolution (it was good for my previous HD 598 headphones)
Even if that sound card has a headphone amp, I would use my separate headphone amp, for the simple reason that I always want a hardware volume control for both headphones and speakers.
If my PC suddenly plays a loud sound I can turn the volume down very quickly when there is a volume control pot. Finding the menu option may take longer or be impossible (if the PC also freezes at the time).
So, ESI U22XT for my laptop and a headphone amp for my home.
I dig it, but with 600Ω headphones I would have liked to see a 1/4 jack, then it'd be icing.
System:
MB: Asus ROG Strix Z390
CPU: Intel Core i9 9900K
RAM: 64Mb Corsair Vengeance, 2666Ghz
GPU: EVGA GeForce 2060 KO Ultra
2x 1Tb Samsung EVO NVMe M.2 SSD
OS: Windows10 Pro 64bit
JUST put this bad boy in my new system. Aaaand it worked immediately, as I expected; until I installed the Soundblaster software (SB Command; SB Connect 2). I anticipated a little tweaking in Windows to work out the bugs, but to no avail. I ensured the drivers were updated, restarted the system, ensured the correct device was established in the sound option in taskbar. No headphone audio, no speaker audio. Guess what fixed it....?
Disabling the onboard audio in the BIOS. It’s usually the simple things.
However, to really get the most out of this sound card, you’re going to have to spend some time in SB Command & Connect 2 to get the sound where you want it depending on your speakers. Once that’s all dialed in, though... awesome little card.
Would you recommend this Over an external DAC/Amp only talking about sound quality?. Thanks.
Its all depends on your situation. A really good DAC can cost a lot of money, but you can buy a better DAC than this, it will just be expensive.
Tech of Tomorrow Thank you for your reply, I think I will go this route for my next build. Sound is very important. Great video as always.
The advantage of an external DAC is that with and external DAC you are outside all the eletronic noise that goes on inside the case. This card does have external shielding to reduce that, but it goes only so far. At least thats the theory. If your case has an optic output, I recommend going external DAC.
If you’re talking just sound quality I would recommend basic shitty motherboard audio. The SNR, sample rate and bit depth (even 16 bit is well beyond enough) is good enough that you will never tell the difference in a double blind test. There’s a reason people buy 99.999998% oxygen free copper cables for $1000 per meter when they couldn’t tell the difference between that and wire coat hanger. That reason is to signal to others that they care more about audio than they do and to feel they have the best.
Spend your money where you get good value like a nice pair of headphones. And even there, if you can get semi-open instead of fully closed you can get descent head phones relatively cheap.
That depends on what you're listening to, for me going from the default settings on my laptop's realtek chip to it's best quality was a noticeable difference, then moving (out of necessity due to a broken mic input) to an Asus Xonar U7 USB sound card was also a noticeable difference in sound quality and I would argue it was well worth the £60 I spent on it.
That said, I do agree in principle that spending obscene amounts of money on anything isn't going to get you much value.
I stopped using extension sound cards back in the mid 2000s. And it was all because of drivers.
My first negative experience was to find out that my Creative SB card will not work with Windows 95. I had to buy a new one despite the old one was working fine.
Same thing happened again with the new card with Windows 98. This time I was experienced enough (and internet was more widespread already) to make it work with a little hack on the 95 drivers.
But it was a game over for this card again with Windows XP.
I already had an onboard sound at that time, but anyway I bought yet again a new one. And... you guessed it, it was out of support and not working after a new version of Windows - it was the x64 XP.
So I stopped buying sound cards. I never bought one from different manufacturer (there wasn't a big choice in Bulgaria anyway). That's a frustrating support experience. I never had it with printers, graphic cards (even a very old ATI card is still able to run on Windows 10 with minor tricks) or other. I was stuck on upgrades only by sound cards and scanners.
Thank God Realtek rules the market now. Their onboard chips are supported perfectly on any system - no matter Windows, Linux of BSD. They just work.
Not quite the last one, we have the ae9 now which I am considering an upgrade from this to that as the ae5 kicks soundcard ass so much. The 5.1 dac/amp is a beast and a few notable things on ae9, gold capacitors they claim enhance bass, full DSD support and optical output that actually supports 5.1, the ae5 disappointed with 2.0 optical and no DD or DTS 5.1 decoding. So I thinking the ae9 is a worthy upgrade from an already excellent soundcard (and no, I don't use the rgb strips :))
For the phone app just get a mounting bracket for the side of your monitor nuff said
I have good sound on my motherboard [Gigabyte GA-Z270X-UD5], however, I had an old Sound Blaster Z that still does a good job. Because my ears were damaged in combat I am not an audio file, however, I do like good music. - Thank you for this video. [EDIT: I do not not like RGB lighting, I only care about performance and quality.]
Tech of Tommorrow - As far as Scout Mode, I think it will be fine if you are able to mount it to the monitor like they did in the shot you showed. Any other place could be problematic.
That's not even Scout Mode - that's Scout Radar. Scout Mode is an auditory feature which is supposed to make it easier to hear your enemies approaching.
Scout 2.0 works ok if you have a spot close to youre screen to prop up youre smartphone.
i totally agree w/elric.
creative just found a way to claw back to life.
to be perfectly honest, the least expensive dac on the market with the ess sabre 32 chip is the sonica by oppo at $700.00 not counting the custom fgpa chips on chord (only competitive dac under $1k).
the sole reason i bought MSI vs. everyone on the gaming laptop (apache pro mvr) front is because of the ess sabre 32 chip.
to have it at $150 for a mobo solution is a *win* by any you look at it.
wtg creative. wtg elric
best AE-5 video I've see so far. Others have more in-depth technical stats, but I respect your background more. Nice video. I do want the best, and that's why I watch your channel.
Get 4 sound cards to get 4 led strips 😂
i really like the look of that sound card
Scout mode is the part I use the most (you obviously put the mobile phone right next to the monitor you're not looking down at it and that's just silly) I'm actually more interesting in the is it sbx? pro feature that boosts shots and footsteps as you can generally hear them before anybody else can as I am Call of Duty player from Modern Warfare 1 sound is very important and get called out for cheating quite often because I can work out where they are from sound and that's without scout mode
I though that soundcards were dead until I tried to do 5.1 audio through my Asus TUFF motherboard.
You are the first person I hear who is talking about this card who didn't call the scout feature cheating. Which it is (if it worked).
That worries me.
Other than that, I bought this card recently (before watching this video) and it really is a great sound card. The direct headphone mode really does sound great with lossless files and the sound profiles really do make content pop. Just be careful! Some of those profiles have the "smart volume", which adjusts the volume automatically depending on the situation, set to a very high level by default. So if you switch profiles while say watching a movie it might get *SUPER* loud as soon as you switch the profile! My system is set to 34% volume and my player software was set to very low volume and I still almost felt like my ear drums would rupture...
I have used Creative Audio solutions from the SB16 all the way up to X-Fi Titanium PCIe.
Their cards always sound better than on board audio, UNTIL THEY DON"T. The last 2 cards were horrible. The 2nd to last would randomly scramble the channels. The Last card did not survive the windows 10 upgrade. Even with a clean install of windows 10 Creator edition and the latest driver, I would get crackling in the audio randomly, The card works fine in Windows 7. I just don't think creative is producing quality drivers for the products anymore.
With modern storage being up in the Terabytes, MP3's and other compression technologies are becoming irrelevant. With the 3 TB's I have, I've gone in and converted all my audio files back to wave. The larger size just isn't a problem anymore.
You pay attention !! Dynamic Range Decibels are not the same as SNR Decibels or Signal to Noise Ratios! Be careful! It's a misleading advertisement !! This Card has 116 dB of SNR and 122 of DNR. THIS IS NOT THE SAME!!