creative sound blaster recon 3d fatality pcie

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PC's simply doesn't have high voltages and won't have ever. so again a engineering double edged sword. Thus the lower the output Z, thus higher distortion if the analogue part as it is crappy made or simply it isn't present at all on motherboard due to high BOM costs, feeling wise it sounds as lame as hugging a rubber doll.Īnd we all know to drive high impedances you need higher voltage. Its fidelity isn't much better than a Realtek ALC889.The black humor is, that high impedance cans are quite rare in mass market. Posted on Jun 10th 2013, 14:00 Reply #8 FreedomEclipseītarunrThat said, the Recon3D handles high-impedance cans quite well.

Its fidelity isn't much better than a Realtek ALC889. That said, the Recon3D handles high-impedance cans quite well. I guess they see things like plastering a $10~15 worth HD audio circuit over a barren PCB, and selling it for $80, the easiest way out. Creative saw major attrition and falling financials over the past 2 years. You pay twice the price for a true chip as old EMU's were, and get crippled DAC with some fancy external headphone bling bling stuff.I couldn't agree more. Last card that got my sympathy was X-Fi Titanium HD, Zxr are overpriced as hell and it is kind of betrayal of hardware audio as such. the good thing it will truly sound near 1K$ sound setup if done accurately. but have more voltage swing as op-amps feed on higher voltage, thus more beefy and overall you can play around as you wish to get things work as you want. and you got output minimum same as X-Fi Titanium. Use internal motherboard what so ever audio layer and SPDIF via DAC found on ebay WM8741/WM8805 or even better AKM's ur Cirrus for around 60-80$.

Creative sound blaster recon 3d fatality pcie update#

The latest driver update for the original Sound Blaster Recon3D doesn't change THX TruStudio Pro from the feature-set.įerrum MasterThis card is blasphemy. The card complies with Intel Azalia specifications, so non-Windows operating systems can run it as a generic HD audio device.

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The card is otherwise identical to the original.īased on Creative's Sound Core3D native-PCIe chipset, and a Cirrus Logic-made DAC, the Sound Blaster Recon3D r2 offers 5.1-channel output with 24-bit resolution, 96 kHz sample rates, 102 dBA SNR, a dedicated 600 Ω headphones amplifier, EAX 5.0 Advanced HD, OpenAL hardware-accelerated audio API support, and support for Windows 8.

The company reportedly revised its Sound Blaster Recon3D mainstream sound card with SBX Pro Studio, replacing THX TruStudio Pro, and the resulting product is labeled Sound Blaster Recon3D r2. Post-processing layers such as Crystalizer, Pro Surround, Pro Bass, Smart Volume, and Dialog Plus, are each re-branded with SBX ProStudio prefixes.

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Its previous Sound Blaster Recon3D series of cards shipped with THX TruStudio Pro software, which is replaced by Creative's own SBX Pro Studio, in its newest Sound Baster Z series. For reasons unknown, Creative's newer generations of Sound Blaster sound cards don't bear the THX logo anymore.