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Once upon a time, many moons ago.
These days not so much.
These days not so much.
Depends.I've built 3 PCs in the last 10 or more years or so and not once did I ever buy a sound card for my builds.
It's that time again, where I am looking to build a new machine either next year or the one after. Anyways... who still buys sound cards? What do they provide ? Is it just for audiophiles? Someone with good knowledge please explain to me who still buys these?
Doesn't majority of audio quality just comes from how good of a headset you have? Or am I speaking nonsense?
It matters to some, depends what equipment do you have. Cheap headphones, not so much.Does sound even matter what is the point of sound.
I appreciate you effort to my joke.It matters to some, depends what equipment do you have. Cheap headphones, not so much.
Better equipment? You can hear the imperfections in sound especially in trebles on low end audio cards or integrated chips. There's also audio format. If you listen only to mp3s and have a good card or USB DAC, you won't really push better signal. Only when you play some FLAC or other lossless format with a good equipment, you will hear how trebles and maybe mids were compressed as hell compared to mp3s.
I would argue about extra expensive audio voodoo stuff though. Audiophiles can be weird sometimes. I have a friend which listens to cables and stuff. Or if a CD is covered with 24k gold it suddenly sounds better than normal CD. I read about this japanese audiophile which bought his own power line because he heard distortions in the main power line .
When did most gamers just live with whatever audio chip is in their PC? Back in the day it was all about Adlib, then getting good Soundblaster cards.
Maybe 2000?
Well after that. You had EAX and A3D. Vista killed off what made those cards special back then. I switched away in 2012.When did most gamers just live with whatever audio chip is in their PC? Back in the day it was all about Adlib, then getting good Soundblaster cards.
Maybe 2000?
Short response, If you're still using external speakers like I do. Yes. Everyone says onboard is equivalent. It's not. I tried.
your headset is made of speakers (small ones), but i get what youre saying.Thanks for the detailed response. I haven't used or touched speakers for more than half my life at this point. I only have a GoPro XLR, Condenser Mic and Headset. My PC is mostly is being used for video production for YouTube and stuff lol. Never really cared for surround sound and I feel like current day headsets are good enough.
At a guess HDMI licensing, HDCP and that their core market is PC users on USB inputs. Tbf their competitors; Astro, Sennheiser all have similar boxes with no HDMI. And most headphones DAC/AMPs don't have HDMI either where it's of no benefit to audiophiles.Am surprised Creative hasn't yet made a Sound Blaster with an HDMI audio port on it. One that could assist with processing Dolby Atmos would be nice.
Yet their latest and greatest card is still rocking the old Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect (5.1) encoders.
I'm hesitant to use the term passive speakers for the ones that I have, but it's the closest description. I use an old Creative surround set that plugs into a subwoofer; I'm not sure there is a receiver as part of it, which is why I hesitate to call them passive, but it's probably the most technically correct.What about external speakers?. Do you mean passive speakers?, because I´ve had no problems with powered sets.
Ps.- People were mentioning the analog input of sound cards, microphone or capture. I use that all the time to plug in my phone and watch stuff, on the gigabyte h610m and the asus b660m it works just as well as it did on my Xonar card... or maybe better, sound level might be a bit higher.
I'm hesitant to use the term passive speakers for the ones that I have, but it's the closest description. I use an old Creative surround set that plugs into a subwoofer; I'm not sure there is a receiver as part of it, which is why I hesitate to call them passive, but it's probably the most technically correct.
I have given thought to buying a receiver and passive speakers for my computer before, but I've dreaded running into technical issues with it, and don't really want the extra heat generation and power consumption in my computer area from a receiver. While these aren't the highest quality speakers in the world, they've always sufficed.
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