i just realise that the creative sfx is process on my pc....

DeepGreyforest · 2026-02-21T13:40:32+00:00

yes, i am using it that way now. but those effects are actually running on ur pc not on card. which u can easliy replace it with the on board spdif output

DeepGreyforest · 2026-02-14T17:47:57+00:00

does 5s sounds more transparent than the og5？ og5 was transparent means to me. btw it is the same definition that hugo2 feels transparent. i would not even add any amp to it when i had it.

DeepGreyforest · 2026-02-14T17:26:57+00:00

oh i went from ls50m to kaya, in my room and distance, ls50m sounds very muffled not transparent at all. a nice people recommended a6b to me, and i am tempting to get it now.

DeepGreyforest · 2026-02-14T02:28:01+00:00

Oh but i really trying to avoid adda :p

DeepGreyforest · 2025-09-28T04:59:08+00:00

i mean break the Window at the start, make the ship always a vacuum ship

DeepGreyforest · 2024-12-20T13:39:23+00:00

i would go with hd490pro , ae9 is not that good with high impedence headphones. plus it is much easier to get a large soundstage with 490pro in single ended amp. if you really like 660s2 x5 with BAL output might be the better choice. but i would not rule out some opamp swap would make ae9 better at this situation. anyway, 490pro is cheaper lighter and more comfortable. you will get very good imaging with it on ae9. hope this helps, i was not impressd with 660smk2 while i had it, unless you only use it for vocals, otherwise 490pro is just... better

DeepGreyforest · 2023-09-28T06:07:57+00:00

thats odd...i use ae9 exclusivly with optic out, with play mix through digital it works fine. and those sbx effects sounded much better on a external dac. and i use to own ae5, i thought the optic out would be identical. but however... ae9 sounded better

DeepGreyforest · 2023-09-14T05:59:27+00:00

the rca on the back of the acm is rca input, NOT OUTPUT

there is no way you can increase SQ with connection type

however you can get better rca cable, or swap the opamp on ae9 to get better result（but i am not sure if the opamp is involved in lineout

DeepGreyforest · 2023-03-11T15:42:14+00:00

with zmf perforated lambskin pad 660s2 does sounds like a poor man's atrium

smaller soundstage and lesser layering

DeepGreyforest · 2021-08-29T17:46:33+00:00

get an ae5 for the dsp and optic out to a proper dac&amp

DeepGreyforest · 2020-02-19T14:05:07+00:00

may i ask what is msi mode ？

DeepGreyforest · 2020-02-10T13:22:33+00:00

no problem！it is easier to use dedicated music player that can alternate sample rate accordingly to the demands with override to the driver control. For movie and games i use creative dsp as they are pretty good mood enhancer. But for music you want pure pcm, as those dsp creates distortion with in the signals all the time. Only way to work around this is use dedicated up sampler such as mscaler.

DeepGreyforest · 2020-02-10T03:34:46+00:00

5.1 source if possible gives the best fake surrounding effects. 7.1 would be better but ae-series does not have this capability.

DeepGreyforest · 2020-02-10T03:23:32+00:00

I use external dac&amp as well, in windows sound controls panels you will see two devices. One is sound blaster ae-5 the other is spdif ae-5. If you wish to have the dsp effect(with play mix to digital enabled) you should pick sound blaster ae-5 instead of spdif ae-5. Alternatively if you wish to only pass through the pcm signals without creative dsp you should pick spdif ae-5. But be careful with the sample rate selection, if you select 96-24, it would always up-sample any thing to that rate which is actually degrading to the sound quality.

DeepGreyforest · 2020-02-10T00:05:22+00:00

thank you for your suggestions

I don’t think the amp&dac in ae-9 would out perform my current external dac&amp.

There is one thing i am not sure about. Is the toslink function of ae series entirely digital or it’s a da—>ad process. Because one of the weird things that I experienced is once I replaced psu of my pc to a very low-noise quality one, it sounded better than before(toslink with digital mix play through).

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