Yes, the HD2 driver is still on beta stage, dated February last year, I've shot them with two e-mail, the first one the replied they will get a new driver soon (last year) and recently I found more problem, shot them with another more angrier e-mail and they have not responded. You know what I do to this? I totally disintegrate my soundcard, I rather use onboard sound connected to DAC and improve the DAC with the components on the card itself

ya, when i first bought my 2nd hand X-FI in January this year, from the perspective of hardware, i really thought the X-FI will sit inside my PC forever, but now it seems my thought was wrong, as the new generation of OS come out, the X-FI will lag behind far and far...

before i bought this card, my mind just got Creative, although i heard all the Audiotrak, Auzentech before, but i just not confident on that...but after i bought it, i went to the Creative forum and saw a lot of weird scenario...the criticism of the users there make me shock, after that i really went to search a lot of forum, modding forum etc...and just in three months, i found all the dark side of my card, either from hardware used or software....but is too late...

but i enjoy it, because i feel worth it for RM200++ i spent to know all this thing....at least after i got this card, i know the other brand of card, opamps, DAC and much more...

and I found that i become addicted to the sound card adi...

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... 

some bad news here for X-FI user....

i look for my card very detail 2 days ago and i found a lot of 'G-Luxon' capacitors were used in analogue part of the card, and i just found in HERE and HERE G-Luxon was 'well known' bad cap...    

So, X-Fi user please prepare for the SQ degradation coming as time passed by...

EDIT: Jamicon cap too....

Who say bling bling not nice

check my work station.... can always look at my bling bling x-fi haha

wan to ask sumthin. sumtimes my speaker no sound aft let it idle on a paused movie. need to restart onli gt music . anybody knoe y?

hey bro, still haven't get speaker to pair with your ElitePro? Your SC will feel alone since no one date with it...lol

Well, you started it, as a science student I applied what I studied to whatever you saying. Its not rocket science or anything, more to common sense than anything

 

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....

interested to know which speaker makes u dump ur aego m also 

icic

Time to change your speaker la brother 
ACS451 doesn't produce nice SQ if paired with your Elite Pro, bottleneck

hm.. s750 sounds so bad in music huh? 

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

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

halo....may i know how 2 use the speaker n headphone wif elite-pro at the same time?>

The new driver worked well. Have no trouble at all. I do hear it sounds better than prevoius driver. Maybe placebo...I don't know....