yap,creative now got many clean stock speaker,
if u intrested,u can try to grab one from them.

hahaha...Bliz! u r making me considering changing my aegom for 550THX... I miss listening to Evanescense, Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus...

NOw, most of the time, I'm listening to Indie folk songs and rock pop.... AegoM did change my music preference...lol

I listen to a lot of those songs, so i didn't get AegoM is right choice for me haha.

gt xtreme music recently frm blitz and thking of upgrading speaker next... what would u ppl recommend? pls gv a few choice for diff price range... thx.

maybe not 550THX, i would rather prefer a 2.1 or 2.0 bookself speakers.. would 5.1 speakers sound good on music?

What speaker u use now?

i would really like to know tat too.... whether 5.1, 7.1 good for music too?

depends on the speaker setup...if you are using 'native' 5.1 or 7.1 speaker, than the sound will be OK, but some people like me setup surround speaker by using different brand of speaker, than the sound will become weird if mismatch....

yup..i "also also" want to know..if right now want to upgrade from 2.1 speaker, which setup is better..5.1 or 7.1..for me..mainly for gaming and movies...

Why do u even need 5.1 for listening to music? It just sound so weird, my 550THX will only output sound at the front 2 satelites when listening to music, cos i didn't enable Stereo Surround at the X-FI audio console.

Just buy a 5.1/7.1 system, listening to music will output sound to the front satelites only, unless u unable stereo surround..

lol

This post has been edited by irwan6179: Apr 17 2008, 04:34 PM

i mean CREATIVE GIGAWORKS G550W 5.1 SPEAKER. like it becoz of its wireless rear speaker cos i always get headache with the wire management.. and the decoder is a plus. but not sure hows the performance.. no place can audit also..

Well..i play game more than listening to music...
Going to buy S750... but worried about that AMP problem as you guys describe, hope i wont be the unlucky one ....

got a really interesting question to ask you guys...

is there any difference in audio quality output between XP xfi driver VS vista xfi driver using the same EQ, same settings?

I'm currently using Vista but somehow everytime i use back XP and listen to my songs, it did sound a bit different, XP output seems to be abit better. I'm not sure whether it's just me or the driver really got different effects on the output .

i hv the same feeling also. in the end i switch back to xp.. another reason i switched back to xp is creative sc driver works better in xp

I feel the same thing as you...X-FI sound in Vista is rough in treble and lost detail in midrange...not too much, but is significant for me...I discovered this difference just 2 weeks ago, before that i play music in XP for so long time, thats why i feel the difference...

And i do RMAA test in Vista too, the frequency response curve got ripple after 4kHz, not as flat as in XP....

omg!... at least i'm not the only one who "felt" the difference...

What player u use in Vista? I use Winamp in Vista and have the exactly 100% same EQ setting as in XP...the difference is i saw the 'software mixing' in Vista instead 'hardware mixing' in XP, so i think this is the cause of SQ degradation since no direct sound in Vista...

another problem in Vista was the sound sometimes skip or pop....not often, but never happen in XP...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Apr 18 2008, 12:01 AM

thanks to creative for its crappy vista driver

Actually i adi prepared myself to use the Vista, the networking in Vista is much more better than XP, because my daily activity is surf net and listen song, but i'm serious in sound quality, i can't compromise although it is just a minor degradation, so now i 90% in XP and 10% in Vista...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Apr 18 2008, 12:17 AM