Greetings to Rob and the list!
I've been lurking for a while but now I'd like some advice. For the lack of money for a 24/96 card, I just bought a Hercules (ex Guillemot) Game Theatre XP 6.1 card, which features the Crystal CS4630 DSP with 18-bit ADC and 20-bit DAC. (It's the same chip as the Videologic Sonic Fury, and the Turtle Beach Santacruz)
Using Mad I can listen to music when I set Mad's resolution in both 24 and 32 bits, when the output plugin is either wave out (Winamp critical update installed). With the directx output plug, I get white noise in both 24 and 32 bits.
Question 1 is: Is there a way to certify that the resulting sound is taking advantage of the 20 bit resolution of the card and that it's not just a dithered to 16 bits sound ? (provided of course that the card's drivers do actually support these 20 bits of the ADC...)
Question 2 is: Does anybody know of any DSP music enhancer Winamp plug that would support more than 16 bits ? The ones I tried did not work. I know some of you have 24/96 cards and so I expect you might use DSP plugins.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
By the way, and for your information, Terratec will soon produce a new budget card, the DMX 6fire LT priced below 150 euros. It's a full 5.1 channel 24/96 card (all channels being 5.1) with the same specs as the existing 6fire but without the breakout box - a definite best buy. Amazon.de and computeruniverse.com already offer it as a preorder. Of course i'm not in any way affiliated to these companies, it's just that this will be my next card - cheaper than any 24/96 stereo channel card, even Terratec's.
Needless to say, since the time I left the list some months ago, I have recommended Mad to some 100+ people who use it daily. Moreover, Mad is used some 10 hours per day on my PC... Long live MAD !
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