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 Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 17:24 Post subject: Sound tip. |
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Was messing about with my home cinema system and decided to hook up my active subwoofer to my PC for a laugh. The effect is amazing, FPS games benefit the most, you can actually feel gunshots. Sound is definately an easily overlooked dimension, and I thoroughly recommend anyone with the chance who isn't already to try using a proper sound system.
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 17:38 Post subject: |
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there´s a hardware section on this forum for this !
consoles have been invented for emptyheads
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Baleur
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 18:20 Post subject: |
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lol @ mwamwa6, of course! i cant play games without my 5.1 system anymore, especially a proper subwoofer, its just as essential as a good 3d card in my opinion!
Example: Volcano in Black & White 2, without bass, its just like hearing skidmarks reproducing.
Any FPS: gunshots and explosions, super!
BUT!!! Remember not to OVERDO the bass volume, a rule i have when setting up sound systems, is that you should have a bass strong enugh to make your stomach feel it when you run a subwoofer excursion test file, and yet be able to have window-shattering (i dont know the english word for the opposite of bass, high-pitch?) with celine dion - the power of love. WHILE having the bass.
Any bass that is so deep that it swallows the rest of the sound spectrum is a bad bass, a bass that is just enugh deep as possible while still keeping crystalclear celine dion madness, is a great bass!
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 RAM: 4gb Kingmax DDR2 800mhz Video: Asus GeForce 250GTS 1gb Sound: Asus Xonar.
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Baleur
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 20:16 Post subject: |
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i have known that for years now. Try hooking up a 4x12" guitar box with a decent amp as your subwoofer. Always got complaints from the neighbours though. A 2x15" Bass-Box also fucks up the neighbours nicely 
EDIT: am running a 5.1 logitech system for quite some time now
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 20:54 Post subject: |
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why do people always use crappy sounding Logitech and creative subs instead of an good cinema sub like a REL or something, i dont think you hit the 20Hz with and logitech.
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 21:08 Post subject: |
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Because a REL, fucking awesome though they are, costs about twice the best G-Card available:)
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 23:11 Post subject: |
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Its usually not worth the hassle and money if you only play on your system. If you use your system also for watching DVDs and listening to music, i d rather go hifi instead of using pc-periphery components
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 23:22 Post subject: |
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Baleur
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 23:27 Post subject: |
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hahahaha, baleur, i want four of those too
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Oct 2005 23:32 Post subject: |
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Hehe, awesome speakers. I'd have to work for a few hundred years to afford them.
My local HIFI dealer has a set rigged up to a £100,000 Naim system. Sounds like a live band:)
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Baleur
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 19:46 Post subject: |
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Wait til like 2025. We'll have those IP based digital speakers that can output sound 30x clearer than the best speakers available today.
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 20:13 Post subject: |
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Back in my BBS days i used to have 2 10 inch Blues with a 60 wat RMS sansui amp powed by a battery charger hooked to my old 486 dx33. PLaying a MOD on them was insaine becasue you could lower the tone of the sample with the player. I ended up killing my moniter , well not killing but its so was so blury after about a week that you couldnt read it.
Yea i couldnt live without a good sound system to play games.
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Hurda
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Oct 2005 00:48 Post subject: |
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i read about a speaker that is developed that only consists of thin seethrough foil, so that you could put it directly onto a monitor using it as a center speaker, or using two on it as stereo, so you can have even smaller systems. Or put it on a picture frame so you dont have speakers standing around. As far as i remember the biggest problem with it was the bass-frequencies, but i m still pretty hyped about the idea, and we might even see it surface in the next one to two years
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd Oct 2005 00:41 Post subject: futuristic |
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