Also, it will need to have an ADC to convert analogue microphone input to digital. The idea that a USB audio device just uses software with no actual audio hardware, is nonsensical.
I don't really know if Creative's newer products have a Crystalizer equivalent, but I'm sure there will be someone who can confirm that. Creative do have a software package I believe, which allows SBX prostudio to be used with onboard audio, without the need to purchase a sound card to get that feature. Whether that comes with a Crystalizer feature assuming Creative still have such a thing , I don't know.
SBX pro studio sounds like a very promising lead to start with, cheers for the heads up. Newer Creative cards like the AE-5 have the Crystalizer functionality and the rest of the stuff in pro studio. When I had that feature it made it sound worse. I'd buy better speaker. Crystalizer is mostly just fancy name for bass and treble boosting equalizer.
Never found it any useful. Too heavily compressed music simply sounds crap, no matter what you do. Again if you play games and watch movies, there would be lot better ways to improve immersion even if you can't set up surround speaker sets.
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CrystalVoice is designed to deliver the best vocal fidelity, and to allow the user to be heard clearly during video conferences, multiplayer games, and online chats. In consideration of all cases, I do feel it adds a nice kick that I can't seem to get on an equalizer. This is also true when I play it on my logitech z, z-3 and xs all which are not great by any means, but the crystallizer feature is a noticeable difference on all of them.
I have found this whether I am running high bit rate MP3s kps , lossless files or straight from the CDs themselves. They were very minute and hardly discernible details like a cymbal ringing, but the crystallizer certainly brought it out. I have also tried running a line out directly through CD to the Xmod and found that it kicked up the fun, but I wasn't absolutely blown away compared to when I was streaming the MP3s.
Just wanted to put in my two cents. SirMaster 2[H]4U. Joined Nov 8, Messages 2, Anything that alters the sound from it's original source to me is a bad thing so I vote to not use it. At least for headphones. For a home theater then EQ is necessary for room correction.
Joined Jul 17, Messages It's decent for adding some excitement to the sound if you don't have a good amplifier with good speakers in your setup. Alternatively play around with an equalizer instead there's one in foobar to learn which frequencies does what to your sound.
Jellyfishpudding Limp Gawd. Joined Oct 12, Messages It comes with the same software you'd use with an add-on X-Fi card. The sound is decent, but you still can't apply the EQ and crystalizer to the line-in, which sucks. The Xonar does this, allowing the audio from my consoles to benefit from my sound settings, but the codec the Xbox uses causes some popping noises. PS3 sounds clear though. The onboard X-Fi as well as the X-Fi sound cards simply allow for audio pass-through with line-in audio.
Anyway, that's getting off the subject. Joined Mar 30, Messages The crystalizer is nothing but a fancy software version of the old graphical equalizer. All it does is molest the musical signal and creates the "illusion" of better sound.
At the expense of the truth of the original music. In short another marketing gimmick. It definitely is a marketing gimmick, but if the end user is happy with the sound, is it a problem? I guess the idea is yes, it doesn't sound like the original source, but if the end user enjoys a more colored sound I don't see it as a problem. Joined Sep 10, Messages 8, Gmok Bonecrusha [H]ard Gawd. Joined Jun 16, Messages 1, SirMaster said:. Joined Aug 15, Messages 5, I like the crystalizer on, but with its slider turned down to its lowest setting.
I typically use some Klipsch PC speakers for my PC sound, so yeah, its helping to add excitement to not very good speakers. It adds a lot more preceived detail in just the right spots to make percussion more percussive, it tightens up bass, and makes bass guitars a bit more perceivable. Particularly parts played with fingerstyle. Even with a better set of speakers Audio Engine A5 the crystalizer is still useful, I find.
Zarathustra[H]; said:. It may be a gimmick, but it as nothing to do with an equalizer. If you have to compare it to something else, it is more like an "expander" but apparently it works less well than an dedicated expander does, and dedicated expanders don't work very well in the first place
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