Why it is always like this? Everytime I've spend my money then the good things come

Nevermind. Elite Pro wasn't that good actually. Those crappy capacitor will let it down anyway

...unless you mod it

That's because you never listen to anything better

Honestly I never listen to how Elite Pro sounds, but I'm worried about crappy Creative drivers if I'm buying it. And why do you hide your speaker....

Oh I see. It doesn't hurt to tell what kind of speaker you use, may I know it. If not you can PM me

Well, I never heard how Cirrus DAC sounds like so I can't guess what kind of speaker should match it

Perhaps those titanium super tweeter gives too much ultrasonic energy that it makes him hates it

If you buying speakers, avoid multimedia PC speaker at all costs. AT ALL COSTS. Buy a proper amp + bookshelf speaker, if you willing to spend

As a side note (not related to X-Fi thread) I use my Yulong PCM58DAC permanently now, everything else sounds 'digital'. This DAC sounds so organic (without opamp) it feels like I'm in live concert. I can even feel the artists present in my room, everything is rounded and no sharp edges in sight (or heard ). LME49720 makes it sounds super tight that the bass has lose the impact, entire spectrum feels like its compressed. So no opamp for me

Who said bookshelf speaker isn't multipurpose? My current setup is good for everything, and its a huge plus when it comes to music. I just put subwoofer for more kick in movies and games

My current setup is my father's previous. So total spent RM0

Yep, very true. If some cheap speaker can do those why not the expensive one?

No no, sell it to me. I'll make the best out of it

Anyway, this is off topic so I want to get back to it. I wonder for those who uses Elite Pro, what kind of speaker you pairing it with?

It depends with your setup, and your ear too. It benefit more on lossy codec like mp3 rather than lossless, as it increased the impact on low and high frequency

Look here for what it done to frequency spectrum

In theory it should makes it sound better, but it all depends on song, bitrate and your gear. If you asked me, all these are useless. If you want the best quality, buy original CD and rip them to lossless. If you don't have much money, try to look for lossless online

Just state your budget and we give recommendation. Then you go audition it and see whether it suit your taste or not

Take MX5021, it sounds better

Guys, just dropping by to say Creative finally made the full fledged X-Fi chips on PCIe platform
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion

If the shielding have warranty sticker preventing it from being open then it will void the warranty, if not you can remove it

With shielding or not, any modding on the card can be considered voiding the warranty already

Now I can really join the club, just bought X-Fi XtremeMusic from a forumer for RM100

Well, what kind of driver you guys using?

No, he only have one card only. And lucky me too I use latest Creative driver, it works great. Am I missing something from Daniel_k one?

Hmm, the stock sound signature isn't that bad too. A bit on dry side, but thats good, vocal is a bit forward and there are some detail that present on it that I haven't heard from Yulong PCM58DAC. This card sound promising to be modded, but keep it at stock for a while

Yeah, I'm with you, I'm not fond changing the card sound signature (the opamp). I see your post on X-Fi modding thread, well I have tons of thing to do, I can do it right about now, but it depends on me, I'm not feeling well right now, caught a cold last night so my awareness is a bit down

Thank you if I feeling alright I'll mod the card tomorrow I try to summarize tonight what I'm going to do tomorrow

Really? You have mod the opamp? Any RMAA screenshot you can share with us?

Hmm, that looks odd. How do you set your X-Fi for recording? I can't get RMAA to work.....

This post has been edited by Najmods: May 28 2008, 12:13 AM

I see...well, I can't get the X-Fi to work with RMAA, how to set it to work