Looking for opinions

[gballard]

Yes it has always been this way...but...I only have the Creative drivers installed...didnt install all the other stuff...could be the reason...

 

[GoNz0]

CMSS only upmix's when its a 2.1 or 4 channel sound, if it's 5.1 or dolby surround / EAX3+ etc the CMSS auto cuts out.

in games my mp3's cut to the front speakers as the creative driver picks up the 5.1 signal.

 

[gballard]

so will installing PlayCenter and enabling CMSS gimme my center speaker or what?

 

[Petros]

Yes, sound will come out, but it won't be the center channel.

 

[coathanger007]

You can still use Live 5.1 with some Audigy 2 functionality
http://www.tech-pc.co.uk/audigy-2.php

 

[gballard]

ok...I installed PlayCenter...but for the life of my I can't find where to turn on CMSS

 

[gballard]

any help would be appreciated...

 

[GoNz0]

right click the creative speaker button and open the eax console, the pic says the rest.

 

[gballard]

Welp...my Audigy 2 has shipped and should be here Monday...the machine it is going in currently has a Live! 5.1 in it...should I totally remove the current drivers and software before I install the Audigy?

 

[Bootsy]

quick question. Can I use the audigy 2 6.1 with 5.1 speakers?

 

[gballard]

I was told ya could...i sure hope so...I will be as well...heh

 

[gballard]

i talked to a friend of mine who has an audigy and 5.1 speakers and he said you choose the speaker configuration during the installation of the software and drivers...just like with the Live! card

 

[GoNz0]

i use 5.1 speakers on mine. and the setup during install is not a fixed setting, its changable after.

 

[coathanger007]

Center speaker annoys a stereophonic. I stick with 4.1

 

[dave holbon]

My advice would be to spend all the money on the speakers and not the sound card. The Fortissimo III is good enough and it’s cheap, but it’s the quality of the speakers that make the difference to what you actually hear. The minimum quality speakers that I would recommend start at about $150 for the Altec Lancing basic stereo and sub-woofer system. Some of the new JBL (computer) speaker systems coming onto the market are not bad either but as with everything else you get what you pay for. Speaker cabinet design reached (mathematically) its design high point in the late 1950’s with speaker design in the late 1980’s. All that’s happened since are trade off’s between efficiency, cost and design. Nothing new has happened in this field for a long time. What happened to the “electrostatic” flat speakers of the 1960’s?

 

[coathanger007]

Value combination = SB Live Value + Creative Inspire 4400