Very weird, when at night LME49720 sounds good, while at day it was too sparkly to my tastes  

Hmm....this thread is dead again....still waiting for the opamp, but in the meantime I order yet another opamp This one is ultra secret opamp     Some say....this one is perfectly balanced sound signature, some say its too veiled. All in all, they all agree it have bass, a big one 

Now my card acting weird, right channel all of the sudden go totally silent. I check for continuity but everything is fine but when I run it there is no sound at all from right channel  

No, still no sound

But I found the culprit, a small SMD resistor is loose, removed it and I directly connect to output without opamp with the wire. Surprisingly it sings well, and no sign of excessive DC offset. Very weird    I hope it stays that way

Gosh, I though this card is a gonner for sure

Yup, and this time it worked well. No sign of excessive DC offset, I measure it it exactly the same as with opamp, around 190mV

Quite a lot actually, maybe up to -9 to -12dB from with opamp

DAC can?
Elite Pro with Amp plus speaker.. very bulky.
Aego M have build in rite?

Was thingking to pair with Wharfedale Diamond 9.1

But i want to pair with Wharfedale Diamond 9.1
Please recommend me a Amp tht can pair with Elite Pro + Wharfedale.

Edit: Actually DVD + Amp + Wharfedale is better rite?

But they said i still need an amp to run Wharfedale Diamond 9.1, cant just pair with Elite Pro because Wharfedale done have build in amp.
sry bro, a bit confuse now.

Yo bro coolkwc... reading back on the posts on this thread, I'm confused again

Earlier on u said the Xi-Fi is only capable of outputting PCM 2.1 (u said ppl complaining), even using DIGITAL output...
Then later u said Xi-Fi can output 5.1 by using proper software and codecs...

That means this is sofware and NOT hardware limitation?

Does it mean it IS possible to playback Dolby Digital/DTS sources through the PC and output to home theater via DIGITAL OUT and get 5.1 SURROUND?

Anyone using Windows XP change to the new beta? I don't try it, never bother since the current one just fine with me

Is there anything we can discuss other than modding? How about games? X-Fi is built from ground up for gaming, so we better talk its gaming performance. All the game I tested give very good result, even the game that doesn't support EAX like Crysis. On the game that supports it, its just amazing. Especially in F.E.A.R, even when enemy sneak up on me, I can listen to them before I can see them. Environment, ambient, different material sounds great too

Oh you are one of the people who get motion sickness in FPS. Luckily I don't. Only game that gives me a little headache is Medal of Honor: Airborne. The motion blur and weapon sway makes me a bit dizzy, but only for a few minutes

I wanted to try DIRT but I heard it got lots of bugs because its a port from console, same like SC:DA

Any one got try this : -
Speaker : Logitech Z5500
Sound Card : Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Music (Attached with Digital I/O Module)
Cable From Sound to Speaker : Original speaker Cable (Z5500) and Optical Cable
Operation System : Window XP SP2
Audio Player : Foobar2000
Audio Player Playback Output : ASIO
Sound Card Mode : Audio Creation Mode

Now my problem :
When i select Entertainment Mode for my sound card, my speaker can detect 6 channel direct sound or optical output.
When i select Audio Creation Mode for my sound card, my speaker only can detect 6 channel direct sound with ASIO output. But the optical output for my speaker has no signal.

Any pro user here can give me advice.

/ps: This sound card only can perform ASIO output from Audio Creation Mode. Other 2 mode (Entertainment Mode and Game Mode) cannot perform ASIO output.
   

Thats means the Audio Creation Mode cannot perform ASIO output through optical cable to speaker or what???

so i wish to ask about your opinion about these 2 situations :
1. A music play with ASIO format go through normal cable to speaker.
2. A music play with digital format go through optical cable to speaker.

Which one can perform better?
   

So any recommendation for external DAC?

What's good about this Chaintech other than the Wolfson DAC is it doesn't use any sort of opamp, so its sounds pure and unaltered. I do the same on my X-Fi, and I never turn back on using opamp anymore

With opamp everything is just in-your-face kind of experience, not the kinda thing that I like especially fo music listening, the soundstaging is very wide without opamp.

For me whet you describe is night and day, because you can clearly hear the difference, but well, one man's meat is another's poison. What speaker did you use with the X-Fi?

OPAMP freak!! can open an opamp discussion thread liao.