""At least try to back up your claims about EAX with something written in the last year or two...""
Well, you've said it yerself ""EAX in itself is just a reverb engine."" and there is almost nothing changed since 5 years old article about that I believe. That's why I originally gave you the link.
But anyway, I was just giving you hard time, nothing personal. Forgive me if I made you upset
I did take SBLive5.1! Platinum once, returned it next day, I think I had conversation with someone here about SB having high to medium bass, nothing below medium frequencies, it was sounding really dry compare to MX300. Sorry, it is just my perception, I am really picky about bass stuff. I use headphones and 2.1 speakers for that matter. 4.1, 5.1, 10.1 from the sound card are not my style, it is all synthetic, made up, not real. A3D is real (am I fuding, oops
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