Billie Jean
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Quistes Does your audiograbber run really slow too with radium codec?
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I like Audiograbber with the Fraunhofer Radium MP3 codec. The only thing is that it takes a really, really long time if you want to encode with high quality at like 256k/s or 320k/s. Audiograbber is just like Audiocatalyst, except it doesn't come with it's own encoder which I like cause AudioCatalyst's built in encoder sucks on the version I have.
You can get it all for free if you know where to look.
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Get a Viewsonic monitor. They have the best picture!! Plus it's good stuff for what you pay! They last longer than Sonys.
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Hey you know what? I was wrong about the pro's not having enough bass. I recently hooked up a home stereo cd player up to my pro's and BANG! There was was bass, almost to much bass. I guess my sundcard is just bad. But really, when I turn the volume up, the bass gets messy with the cd player. Of course I haven't gotten a good chance to test it out the way. That will happen tomorrow.
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If I had thousands of dollars, you better believe I'd be spending money on stereo and computer equipment left and right. In fact if I only had $2k to live off of for the next 4 months, I'd spend more than half of that on equipment. But I'm broke and I have way too many bills. But hey, that doesn't mean I can't afford the pro's. And for right now they are good enough toys. I like to keep a good rotation of toys and I ussually don't keep any of them for more than a year.
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I saw Kenny Wayne Shepard at Summerfest in Milwaukee last summer. I have to say that that is not my kind of music. It was good, but not something I go to a concert for. Plus there were all these old disgusting drunk people all over the place. It was actually kinda funny.
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Check out the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz . It has all the same features, but it sounds better. Plus Dell is putting it in their THX certified computers. It's actually a THX requirment to have that sound card in order for a computer to be THX rated. Plus you can get it for $70 to $85 dollars. I just ordered mine for $82 including 3 day shipping.
You can find reviews at Firing Squad and Gamers Depot
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I'm getting a santa cruz. I'm pretty sure they kick azz.
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Don't get me wrong, I too hate boomy, messy bass. I have to have accurate and perfect bass, but I do like a big sound. Having 2 pro subs, or in my future case 3, doesn't nessesarily mean more bass, but maybe less strained bass. If you have 2 subs you won't have to turn the bass up as much to get the same amount of bass. So the subs won't be working as hard and they will sound better. Plus with my 6.3 idea with the extra ht sub will just make the bass that much easier for the subs to make. I love the bass from my current 2.1's, it's beautiful. But I'd still prefer a separate sub so I can keep the bass low on the pro's and use the pro's more for upper bass and everything up from there. I just think it would have better over all sound quality.
Plus, I'm obsessed with sound reproduction and all the toys that go along with it.
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Hey rol1, do those hoontech cards have analog 5.1 channel output? I know they are really good cards, but I don't think any of them have 5.1.
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I think the 4.2's is a great idea. The only complaint I have with any of the pro's is that they don't have enough bass. The midrange and highs are way too over powering. So if you get 2 subs with 260 watts in all, it's better. The sats don't need alot of power, they are extremely efficient.
And having to adjust 2 control pods? Set both pods at the same volume and then adjust the volume with the volume control in windows!! Or just have both speakers with the pods in front so you can reach them easily, but wire the speakers up correctly to their respective location. That doesn't make sense.
I'd take the 4.2's over the 4.1's any day, but actually I just want 3 sets of 2.1's for ht.
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I love spending money on my computer. I used to have a $1200 HT, but I sold most of it to pay for bills. Now I'm just starting to build up a new HT just for my computer. I just need a new monitor, sound card and 2 more sets of 2.1's.
But yeah, I think 3 sets of the pro 2.1's would be a kick butt HT system for your computer. 3 sets is what I plan having.
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I have the 2.1's and they rock!! This is coming from a person who used to have a 700 watt home theater setup.
But I wish I would have known about the 4.2 deal before I ordered my 2.1's last week. I would've spent the extra $100 for the 4.2's seeing as I was planning on having three sets of 2.1's for HT. Maybe I can get $300 more before the end of the month so I can just buy the 4.2's.
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That's why when I hooked my extra sub to the sat outs I had to turn the extra sub up really high in order for it to be useful. But it does work that way (badly), and it's the only way to do it if you want to adjust the extra sub's volume with the pro's volume control.
The only other way is like I said before, a splitter and using the windows volume control to change the volume. It's kind of a pain in the butt, but it sounds alot better.
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Tripper joe, that 2 sub 2 sat set is just two 2.1's put together ($400 from klipsch).
K27-R, the splitter I have is a cable type of thing that is about 6 inches long in all . It has a male 1/8" plug on one end to plug into the soundcard, and it splits right after that plug into 2 cables that are about 5 inches long and at the end of each of them is a female 1/8" plug. And the cord that goes to my extra sub is like that cord that comes with a portable cd player so you can plug it into a receiver.
The only problem with using the splitter is that you have to control the volume on your computer, not on you pro's. So you have to find a good volume on your pro's and you extra sub that sounds balanced and then not touch those controls. Instead use windows volume controls.
This is what the top of the package says for the splitter I got at Radio Shack.
Radio Shack cat. # 42-2463a
Y-adapter Headphone Cable
For connection between two headphones and amp/receiver.
Stereo 1/8" mini plug to 2 stereo 1/8" mini jacks.
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The splitter I use doesn't do anything to the sound quality or volume. My pro's sound exactly the same with or without the splitter. Now if I had just gotten the crappy splitter that radio shack had, then maybe it wouldn't sound as good.
Oh yeah, that is a good idea if you have a 5.1 sound card. But some 5.1 cards don't use the .1 channel useless your using a 5.1 source.
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Here's what I did...
I went to Radio Shack and got a plug adapter that I plug into the sound card output and splits into 2. Then I have a patch cord that has an 1/8 inch plug on one end and at the other it has the red and white RCA plugs that plug into the extra sub's line level inputs. That way I can plug the pro's and my sub to the same sound card output. Or you can do what Friend said, just run speaker wires from the sats output on the pro sub to the speaker level inputs on your new sub. I guess that would probably be the easiest and best way. Though I tried it his way and I ended up having to turn the volume up really high on the extra sub in order for it to be useful.
If you want a cheap sub that can definitely pound, you can get a 10" 100 watt rms powered sub at Radio Shack for $100 to $200. I'm not sure how much it is now, but I got mine on sale last year for $100 and they always have sales. Or go to Best Buy and pick up an Audiosource sub. They have all sizes and they are at damn good prices ($100 to $300). All these subs play a lot of bass good and loud, which should be just what you need for a party. I used my Radio Shack sub for an outdoor party with about 150 to 200 people there and it was pounding.
But if you want a good sub with really good sound quality get a Polk Audio. They run between $250 to $600. Or you can get an Accoustic Research (AR) for a little cheaper.
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This thread is ****ing crazy. I love this **** .
I just wanted to be included in the craziness.
I think I'm gettinf my 2.1's in 2 days. YES!!!!!
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yeah, the quintets would make less power.
hello people, more ohms = less power, less ohms = more power. That's why i have 3 ohm homemade speakers hooked up to my low wattage on board sound. only problem is they are making me go deaf. That's why i'm getting the 2.1's!!!!
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Cool, I thought that maybe my computer was on crack. Before I had the radium codec it used to take just as much time to burn a cd as it would to burn 2 songs with the radium codec.