M-Audio card

GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Hardware
Ill never buy another type of sound card than M-Audio.

This card is great. Great sound easy to install drivers.

The M-Audio revolution 5.1 gets two thumbs up. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited January 2005
    :D:thumbsup:

    I just wish it would output on its digital coax line ALL the time, instead of during DVDs. Not that serious of a problem, though :)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I have a Delta 410. Awesome sound card.
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    They have great sound and NO HARDWARE ACCELERATION !!!

    Good for audiophiles, suck for gamers :)

    PS: I have a Delta too (44)
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited January 2005
    Actually, the Revo 5.1 is supposed to be optimized. It uses hardly any CPU, from what I've read and seen, but I suppose for a hardcore gamer that extra 2-3% is critical :rolleyes:

    Good enough for me :D
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I think right now in this period in time the machines of hardcore gamers far outpower the software requirememnts. Not like it was a few years ago, but shortly the software will catch up to the power available and then it will become important again.

    All us old pharts with e-machines are keeping the requirements on the software down.

    Guess I'll go crank up the A64 3800+ and play a little solitare while I listen to Elvis in the background ;D;D;D:thumbsup:
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited January 2005
    Yuppers...

    The REVO is a darn good card. I have it powering my home theater PC connected to the AMP. Nice sound. The feature I wish they had was the ability to send stereo to fronts and rears...like having 2 sets of FRONT speakers.

    Example...when I have a party...the circle surround is nice but the ability to send music and control volume to the fronts AND the same signal to the rears...overriding the "surround" effect would be nice. It allows for music to be all around instead of a centralized source.

    But 3 thumbs up from me on this card overall.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    I am surfing the net playing solitar and listening to Kenny Chesney on WMP and i am at 5% cpu usage
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited January 2005
    MediaMan wrote:
    Yuppers...

    The REVO is a darn good card. I have it powering my home theater PC connected to the AMP. Nice sound. The feature I wish they had was the ability to send stereo to fronts and rears...like having 2 sets of FRONT speakers.

    Example...when I have a party...the circle surround is nice but the ability to send music and control volume to the fronts AND the same signal to the rears...overriding the "surround" effect would be nice. It allows for music to be all around instead of a centralized source.

    But 3 thumbs up from me on this card overall.

    X3 Surround. It seems exactly the same, if not better sounding, than using Stereo x2 on the speaker control. Unless you mean something else?
  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2005
    I hope you guys know that M-Audio was sold a while back. I know it might not make a difference but then again it could make a world of difference, look at how badly Creative screwed up Cambridge SoundWorks when they bought 'em out.

    Not that I'm trying to be a deliberate downer but personally I'd wait a while and see how well the new ppl in charge do before buying any of their products, I'd hate to buy a card that suddenly lost regular driver updates and things.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    M-Audio was sold to Avid, who has been in the professional video production business for decades. If anything, Avid will be MORE proactive with driver updates than midiman ever was.

    Avid is a great company. I forsee good things for m-audio support.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2005
    I wasn't sure who they were sold to, it's been some time since I read about the sale but to play the devil's advocate here, Creative has been in the computer audio biz for quite some time as well but they still made a mess of a fine company but happily enough that is changing at last.

    I hope that M-Audio continues to be a good solid sound alternative to the cards offered by Creative, a little diversity is good for the consumer in that it offers more competition to spur improvements in designs and also lower prices as each company tries to trump the other one.

    No competition means that you're forced to buy what brand "x" sells for the price they decide they want to sell it for which is a bad thing. For an example of that look at the OS market. If there was an easy to use, for the average user, OS alternative to Windows that cost considerably less M$ would have to lower prices, but, as it stands with Linux up in the air as to it's legitamacy and the fact it's not quite as easy to use (although it's largely free) M$ has a chokehold on the mass-consumer market and it shows. They churn out a product that could be better and charge an exhorbitant sum for it because they know people will pay it or, by and large, have a pc that is of no use to them for anything other than a paperweight.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2005
    I have a usb based M-Audio sound setup and it feeds my 100 wpc Carver Amp and Carver preamp/tuner thne hits a huge old set of Klipsch Cornwalls. Fora computer setup its pretty awesome.

    Tex
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2005
    Missileman wrote:
    They have great sound and NO HARDWARE ACCELERATION !!!

    Good for audiophiles, suck for gamers :)

    PS: I have a Delta too (44)

    There's a solution to this... run 2 CPUs in your gaming rig :D
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