Evening all,
I just tried something which is normally out of question for me. I activated by onboard sound (haha). I suddenly realized that it was an ACL650 (realtek on intel chipset) and that it could do 192khz, 24-bit and Eax 2 in 6.1 setup.
I tested it with some games and there was quite a significant soundquality difference in games supporting eax2, but of course; an irreversible performance difference. I ran some tests with RMAA versus my SB!LIVE Player 1024 (16-bit, 192khz, Eax 1, goldplated outputs, 1024midi voices) and I found the ACL650 a bit more noisy and with quite poor midi-support compared to the sb!live (not that midi is impotant, just a fact).
I (of course) also ran a 3dmark03 soundtest:
ACL650
no sounds: 45.2
24 sounds: 31.8
SB!LIVE
no sounds: 44.9
24 sounds: 36.1
End-of-line-questions:
what to stick to and why?
Anyone knows if the latency (for e.g. midi-keyb.) is better/worse/equal to the sb!live?
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