Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit

[d0b33]

Nearly all of my songs are encoded at 128k. Obviously I can't up-encode them to lossless or whatever...

Just out of interests sake, my current 10gb of 128k would take up how much space if encoded flac?

I think it may be around 10x bigger so probably a 100GB

 

[SanchoP]

Okay. Just remembered it's currently about 16gb, so maybe I'll start looking into lossless songs once I have another hard drive and a 160gb iPod... Speaking of which, do you think the higher bitrates will make a difference playing off an iPod?

 

[Brawler]

yes it will, but the measure will depend on what headphones you have.

 

[d0b33]

^ what he said

 

[MrE]

No I'm sorry, but if you can hear the difference in quality between decent onboard and a Sound Blaster woteva, then you should be in the sound industry, cos you have GREAT ears.
Really, it's a waste of money, buy some nice speakers rather.

 

[d0b33]

No I'm sorry, but if you can hear the difference in quality between decent onboard and a Sound Blaster woteva, then you should be in the sound industry, cos you have GREAT ears.
Really, it's a waste of money, buy some nice speakers rather.

Most onboard sound today is good, that's why I always recommend people go for the High-End stuff because you will notice a difference, the cheap cards are in most cases not worth it, and you won't notice a difference, if you do it's probably placebo.

 

[d0b33]

With regards to the OP, I don't recommend the live! 24bit, it might be a little better than your onboard/ipod but if you can get it for -R50 (what I would pay for it)then it's not that bad actually.

The Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit was not actually a member of the Sound Blaster Live! family, because it lacked the EMU10k1/10k2 processor. It was a stripped down version of the Audigy Value, with an SNR of 100 dB, software based EAX, no advanced resolution DVD-Audio Playback, and no Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Digital EX 6.1 playback. A proof of this is that on Linux operating systems, when using the ALSA sound system, the module that is used for the Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit is snd-ca0106, while the module that is used by the Sound Blaster Live! is snd-emu10k1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_Live!#Sound_Blaster_Live.21_24-bit

 

[SanchoP]

Oh well. The main reason i'm getting a sound card in the first place is because my Z-2300s aren't friends with my onboard, and it's only gonna cost R150, so I'm happy.

 

[d0b33]

Oh well. The main reason i'm getting a sound card in the first place is because my Z-2300s aren't friends with my onboard, and it's only gonna cost R150, so I'm happy.

Ok, but try to bring it down to R100 at least if possible, not such a great card really.

 

[SanchoP]

Deals already pretty much done, so R150 it is... I presume it would also take a bit of the load off the CPU...