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Hi Hybride,

I have read your post about the three PCI cards you have tried. Can't find it anymore. Nevertheless thanks for pointing it out. I alway's wondered if the EMU's mixer also is involved with the spdif output. Peter and i tried it also to get rid of that mixer but it did not work overhere. I dont have a dac yet so i play analoog to receiver. Did you tried that with the Cmedia? Than i think i will buy that card also... You said it is not to expensive.. Can you post me a link to that card and that special driver?


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Gerard,

I removed the post, because i have managed to bypass the mixer with the EMU. Although i think i did.
I have made a session which directly send the input to spdif. Non of the sliders is working then anymore.
Now i'm doing listening tests. Bypassing the mixer works much better! SQ is excellent.

At this moment i prefer the SQ of the EMU instead of the cmedia. The stage with bigger and the sound seems to be a bit cleaner.
I have to do some more testing.

This is the cmedia card i use http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=12950
It has optical en coaxial out. The driver you can find here: http://code.google.com/p/cmediadrivers

Are you using the EMU1212m at this moment? Maybe you can try my session.

Indeed it takes special skills to get normal audio out of that mixer. Personally I couldn't get any sound from the EMU carde without that mixer, and not including it.
It is a nice thing to get (Proteus) synth (MIDI) sound from it though.

Indeed it seems that hybride has deleted his post about is "second hand" EMU 1212 he bought, with too smooth sound opposed to the CMedia compatible card he uses.

Hybride

That's great!  :) Can that also be done direct analoog?

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Ah ! How ? how ! how ?!


But not better than the CMedia I suppose ? :smirk:
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Well, it's quit easy..

Create a new session and create a 'send' within that session. Point the output to SPDIF.
Thats it. What i did wrong was creating a 'send' in the mixer instead of in the session.
Is this new for you guys? 

So you can check analoog than? can't wait until i get home.... Night shift up to 06.00   :(

Thanx for this!!

Well yes actually! In the post i deleted (sorry) i mentioned that the EMU sounded softer and warmer. But that was because of the mixer involved.
Now without mixer (ahum. i think so) The depth is now equal to the cmedia/dogber, but the EMU has more stage, seems cleaner.

Hybride,

I was thinking can you play double? I cannot anymore since the official Vista driver.. V200

 :unsure:

So i bought something good than! :) :) :)

We didn't read tfm.
At least I am not into manuals. No time you know. :swoon:
:fool:

I don't know Gerard, but i think that is not possible, because analog out is not a 'physical output'

update.. i checked. you can point it to 'Wave L/R host' if you are lucky thats direct analog out.

Oh  :( Haha

 :) :)


Well than i wait until the dac has arrived  :)

Gerard read my update in the previous post..

Thats the analoog indeed....  :)

Feel a bit sick.... Must go home...  ;)

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All that remains is finding the proper cable (pair) belonging to that. :1eye:

:rofl:

Any idea???

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Hybride,

 :thankyou: :thankyou: :thankyou: :thankyou:

Sound has become a few steps forward like you said.... Even analoog!!!! More stage and cleaner are the right words. There is air in the sound!!

I am a happy man.....

And a few hours alone for myself....  :)

Again thanxxx

Great to hear!

Another thing i like about this is that we both experience the same effects changes in SQ!