QUOTE(mp3dom @ Mar 8 2015, 10:48 PM)
Excluding Bass Management, the sound is almost similar (the difference is due to the different DAC/Op-amp of the soundcard). Using ASIO, the full range/limited range option in drivers/Windows is just ignored (like all the other driver settings). The sound is always sent to each channels as it should ("full range"), then the sound goes into the amplifier that should manage the bass and re-directs the lower frequencies not covered by the satellites to the subwoofer (using ASIO as the output module you can be just sure that both drivers or Windows aren't messing something).
With digital connection and stereo analog (Aux-In/CD-In) this works just fine. The digital and stereo analog have the same amount of bass frequencies and sounds identical (apart the difference in DAC/Op-amp mentioned above). With 5.1 there's a strong lack of bass frequencies. This not only with 2.0 input, but with native 5.1 as well. In 5.1 the subwoofer plays the LFE channel but the lower frequencies coming from satellites are strongly attenuated (if not discarded at all). With 5.1 (Dolby/dts) coming from digital this doesn't happen and the sound plays right.
(Still, nobody contacted me. Let's see if in this week something happens)
Hi, is this really a design flaw? I'm not really agree with you.With digital connection and stereo analog (Aux-In/CD-In) this works just fine. The digital and stereo analog have the same amount of bass frequencies and sounds identical (apart the difference in DAC/Op-amp mentioned above). With 5.1 there's a strong lack of bass frequencies. This not only with 2.0 input, but with native 5.1 as well. In 5.1 the subwoofer plays the LFE channel but the lower frequencies coming from satellites are strongly attenuated (if not discarded at all). With 5.1 (Dolby/dts) coming from digital this doesn't happen and the sound plays right.
(Still, nobody contacted me. Let's see if in this week something happens)
From what you mentioned, i believe this is intended design rather than flaw and i can understand the reason behind of such design.
The design is quite clear, if you want the speaker redirect/process internally, send digital signal into it, the built-in DAC and DSP will do the job.
Other than that, if you input multichannel analogue signal in, the speaker will just assume you want to bypass the internal built-in DAC and DSP and fully rely on the analogue signal and only do amplification without processing (or ADC->DSP->DAC which will lead to extra quality loss), so now your sound card is the main DAC/DSP.
Why stereo it will redirect the bass? Because in stereo mode your speaker is actually "2.1", not "2.0", like or dislike you have to let the internal DSP to re-direct bass to sub, simply because you won't be able to find 2.1 setting in your sound card (which can set bass re-direct in stereo mode) i believe.
Mar 9 2015, 12:10 AM

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