Grimmi

I wouldn't mind getting an answer to that question myself, I've heard of the keyspan remote but I read a couple bad things about it which turned me off of buying one...any other remote solutions out there?

dump musicmatch and use something else....even creative playcenter is better then that piece of software

In regards to that windows setting...I am using an audigy, and while the 5.1 setting in the audigy's surround mixer is retained with reboots...the windows one is not. Has anyone else had this problem?

"The card only has a freq. response of 40hz - 15khz (+/- 3db)" Not sure where u found that info...but that's false, creative cards have their problems, but that's not one of them.

careful with wireless headphones...all the pairs I've auditioned..even the higher end Sennheiser's didn't sound nearly as good as the corded versions...I do a lot of headphone listening, can't wait for a good sounding pair to be released

Monster cables are indeed good but I think they are overkill for the promedia line, as I understand it the pm4.1's don't use just bare end speaker wire on both ends...there has to be a better solution then monster cable though...that stuff is pricey

---------------- On 12/13/2002 10:10:12 PM justin_tx_16 wrote: ---------------- On 12/13/2002 12:29:31 PM j486dx wrote: Buy the extigy! it is the only one that will give you the best sound! like they say you get waht you pay for! ---------------- Not true, not true, not true. if you are a gamer, the extigy is not a gaming card the extigy is not going to give the best sound. ---------------- He's right, extigy is not a gaming card, most reviews noted a serious FPS hit when gaming...though I think this has a lot to do with the bandwidth of USB being a lot slower then that of PCI...so you may get the same hits with any usb based cards, though that may not be the case.

I havn't heard them, and I think they stoped making them (not sure about that) but the general consensus seems to be the crossfire is indeed superior in sound quality...though it is more expensive, so one would think it should be (unless it carries the BOSE name =p)

---------------- On 11/25/2001 12:04:00 AM Btrigg wrote: The thing with the megaworks is that gamespot put them as bad at high volumes. Of course they definately aren't audio experts, but they said the midrange and overall quality was better than all systems at medium volume, but when they were pushed, they lost all that quality. The logitech is an impressive system, with better midrange, and a better overall sub, stop arguing this. It's amazing they can sell them for that cheap. For all u people saying u like Klipsch sound more, your just saying that because u know the pros have been beat. It's hard for me to say that considering I just bought the 5.1s (at least the sub is still better) but it is true. The pros have the advantage of a lower sat xover, asthetics, and possibly a LOUDER sub, but thats it. Those advantages (if u ignore the disadvantages) are not enought to pay 3 times the price, at this level. ---------------- I don't know what the sat xover is of the logitech's so I'll leave that alone, as for the promedia5.1's sub being LOUDER, no dice...it edges out the logitech sub in the area of quality (which doesn't mean as much in movies / games as it does in certain types of music..in my humble opinion) but not quantity, and yes I did test this myself, as best I could. With the logitech sub and the pm5.1 sub in the same room (in the middle of the room so I was hearing as much of the subs as possible and as little of the "free bass" you get from puttin them in corners) I played both a bass test, and some bass heavy rap, both myself and my 2 friends I had with me agree that the logitech sub did handle the LOUD bass better, remember this was to test loudness not quality. I do recognize the pm5.1's sub does win over in the detail category and quality...but it's not as cut and dry as everyone makes it sound...it only wins these categories when the volume is not loud, as all 3 of us found when the volume was turned up port noise / turbulance came into play. I'm not an audiophile and I don't know half as much about most of you about how sound is produced or any of the technical stuff...but I know what port noise / turbulance sounds like...and I'm pretty sure my pm5.1 sub isn't defective...cause there is one other guy in my rez with one...and he admits his sub does the same thing when it gets too loud. Oh and as for aesthetics...beauty is in the eye of the beholder, personally I really like the way the logitech's look.