03-26-2017 11:16 PM - last edited 3 weeks ago by ROGBot
03-27-2017 03:26 AM
03-27-2017 05:27 AM
03-27-2017 10:44 AM
03-28-2017 08:24 AM
Demoniacstar wrote:
im just curious as to why you would even use a sound card when the onboard audio is awesome .......
this motherboard's audio is nice...i wuz actually blown away by how good this board sounds compared to
my crosshair v formula z board.....and i do know sound ...i record music all the time ....
drums ...guitar, bass..... it all sounds so real after recording on this ......
save yourself a headache and try out the onboard sound!
07-25-2017 08:46 PM
Demoniacstar wrote:
im just curious as to why you would even use a sound card when the onboard audio is awesome .......
this motherboard's audio is nice...i wuz actually blown away by how good this board sounds compared to
my crosshair v formula z board.....and i do know sound ...i record music all the time ....
drums ...guitar, bass..... it all sounds so real after recording on this ......
save yourself a headache and try out the onboard sound!
03-28-2017 08:39 AM
Kobura wrote:
Are you using a digital output of your soundcard? Like S/PDIF over TOSLINK or Cinch?
Then it's a problem of your soundcard and receiver. On calm parts of movies/games it will go in standby mode, and when it picks up a signal loud enough again wake up from that. Some sound receivers will then reinitialize and make the "pop" sound from powering the boxes.
I used the "Inaudible Tone" option on this tool to prevent the receiver switching to idle mode: https://blog.rhysgoodwin.com/htpc/spdif-keepalive/
03-28-2017 08:47 AM
03-28-2017 09:17 AM
Kobura wrote:
I have the same speaker set if it is the Z5500 and had to use aforementioned tool to keep TOSLINK busy so it wouldn't cut the audio off and come back with the annoying "pop". Back then i used it like this, because the integrated soundchip of the P8Z77-M PRO was rubbish, even compared to the Z5500 DAC.
Since then i switched to an ASUS Xonar U7 and plugged it in with normal 3.5mm jacks, since the Xonar has a vastly superior DAC compared to the Z5500.
If you use TOSLINK, then you use the mediocre Z5500 integrated DAC. For best sound quality i recommend using your C6H (yes, the DAC in the C6H is way better than the ancient one found in the Z5500) or Soundblaster DAC and plug it in 5.1 as 3.5mm audio jacks and set windows to use 5.1 correctly.
03-28-2017 11:17 AM