New soundcard and speakers on the way!

FragTek

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Yup, decided it was time to ditch the TV tuner in favor a nice sound card and get me some 5.1 digital speakers... I love my TV tuner and all but I never ever use it, so why not utilize that wasted slot with something better eh?

For the soundcard I decided to go with the Bluegears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 card, the same one that Eguy has and swears by. I did a lot of research debating on whether or not to get an X-Fi card and all I heard was bad things about X-Fi and games, so I opted for the Bluegears on that front. I also heard that the Bluegears card straight bitchslaps the X-Fi lineup in music reproduction. Can't complain there!

Bluegears card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829127001

For speakers I opted for the Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 surround setup. The reviews on it were great opposed to a few others in the same price range so that's what made me decide to go with this set. I think I finally have my room arranged in such a way that I can find a place to put all of the satellites, yay! :D

Speakers: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16836121120

This is the first time I've spent over $200 on a set of computer speakers, and I hope it's worth it. I should be receiving all of these goodies on Thursday. I'll make sure to do a full writeup on the sound card / speaker combo. It looks like a winning team to me!

:beerchug:
 
Sweet mate. I bought the Audigy ZS and haven't been happier. With that and some 2.1's (have 5.1 headphones) I'm really happy.

I'm sure you'll tell us how they go :)
 
Very nice Frag, I need a sound card too!!!!

And I :humpin: the speaker set, especially that Logitech remote control, l00ks a bit B L I N G to me mate :D
 
cool, can you let me know how many output channels that can do, eg 64 or 128 :) i look forward to the review, that speaker setup will rock :) good job on picking it :)
 
Glad to see you going on my steps, the card will pwn anything out of creative's ass'es :D

Get a Monster THX toslink cable to hookup to teh bluegears mate! It makes the sound 1000x better :D

:worship:
 
Is that a C-Media chipset in that sound card?? C-Media do products of high quality..? Clearly I've stereotyped them as so-so through previous experience with on-board sound...
 
Eguy said:
Glad to see you going on my steps, the card will pwn anything out of creative's ass'es :D

Get a Monster THX toslink cable to hookup to teh bluegears mate! It makes the sound 1000x better :D

:worship:

It comes with with a toslink cable doesnt it?

@crarc: This is C-Media's high end chipset which has been used with care by Bluegears on one of the best sounding cards on the market.
 
FragTek said:
It comes with with a toslink cable doesnt it?

@crarc: This is C-Media's high end chipset which has been used with care by Bluegears on one of the best sounding cards on the market.

Sure does but it cant compare to monsters cable :worship: :worship:
 
name='Eguy' said:
Sure does but it cant compare to monsters cable :worship: :worship:

You mean "Monstrosity Cable" ? lol. I thought everyone knew by now that Monster Cable wasn't anything special, just fancy packaging and a price tage twice what it should be, it's a complete money mongering company. Just like our friends at Microshit! :)

Does everything sound alright hooked up through the optical connection Eguy, or should I hook up both Optical, Coax, and Analog? I've heard that music doesn't sound good on optical, but sounds good on coax, and that some video games don't output on the digital and only the analog (same with a few DVD's).

Can you share your experiences with the different output types? Thx!
 
i had a fiver C-Media card back in the day, 5.1 surround, served me well :) .. well till it needed to make more than about 24 sounds anyway lol :)
 
FragTek said:
You mean "Monstrosity Cable" ? lol. I thought everyone knew by now that Monster Cable wasn't anything special, just fancy packaging and a price tage twice what it should be, it's a complete money mongering company. Just like our friends at Microshit! :)

Does everything sound alright hooked up through the optical connection Eguy, or should I hook up both Optical, Coax, and Analog? I've heard that music doesn't sound good on optical, but sounds good on coax, and that some video games don't output on the digital and only the analog (same with a few DVD's).

Can you share your experiences with the different output types? Thx!

Nah Monster has some backing behind their name, I have compared cables audio/video and you can tell a difference ;)

I say just Optical, that's all I use ;)
 
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Sound card just showed up! :) I'll slap her in as soon as I get home and give ya a report on how badass it is, muahahaha.
 
oh man it pwns indeed Creative should just give up to this card

And they just announced 3 more cards that pwn 100000x more then this one :eek:
 
im planning on trashing my audigy 2 zs for an xraider if i can ever find the damn thing... how you guys liking that card... the DDL encoding in particular
 
name='setite' said:
im planning on trashing my audigy 2 zs for an xraider if i can ever find the damn thing... how you guys liking that card... the DDL encoding in particular

The X-Raider is so new I can't find it either, lol... It's been on on their homepage for a while now but I'm really waiting for it to hit at Newegg before I pick one up.

The X-Mystique is pure kickass though, it totally pwns my X-Fi like the little nub card it was :p
 
definitely glad to hear it... i mean i see the mystique on alot of serious rigs but i always accepted creative as the best at a price... but with their refusal of a cost effective card with dolby i had to part.... im planning on picking up the x-plosion which appears to be the x-raider with extra analog crap at a 40-50 dollar higher ticket.... but it comes out end of this month as opposed to the end of march like the x-raider... viva la blue gears and the one guy who answers the phones there half-asleep...
 
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