🚀 go-pugleaf

>musicmaker@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey, the competition is fine, as it increases consumer value; but enough
> already with the lame Creative bashing about "overpriced", "noisy", and
> "distortion", (which doesn't meet with my experience), while neglecting the
> superlatives like great tech support, a substantial web-based user-community
> support, soundfont enhancement, etc.
> 
>

Well you're missing all those other people.  There are many people who
paid even more money for AWE32 cards, such as myself.  Even though it's
a fairly nice card, it cost me about $300 and that's not including the
RAM updgrades, etc...  Unfortunately the audio is quantitatively and
qualitatively worse, in terms of S/N, frequency response, than others
cards I have that cost 1/2 to 1/3 the price.  Also I find the frequency
response is problematic with the Emu8000 when using the FX processing. 
I tested the Emu8000 output without FX and the output is flat (testing
using both 1 stream and 30 simultaneous streams through an external
DAC), but everytime I use the FX the bass drops out of the mix (I have a
lot of trouble getting good bass drum and bass guitar to cut through the
mix which is a problem I don't hear on the Yamaha, Roland, Korg, ICS
Wavefront, Emu Proteus/Multisound, and other cards).  So there are many
people such as myself who gave them quite a bit of money (seems it was
their most expensive soundcard) and yet the results weren't as great as
the ads and specs might indicate.  I like the multipoint interpolation,
though other products feature this too, but whether I would want to give
them any more money is questionable due the fact the previous product
just didn't perform as well as it should have.  This is one of the
reason why you may see people not so happy with Creative because of such
past experiences.

Perhaps they've done a better job this time, but that doesn't exactly
fix the poor capabilities of the cards I and other people have
previously purchased.  The one main thing about the Live is that the
only number I've seen for the number of 3d audio sounds it can play is
8.  That's not exactly a lot if that's the case.  I've already advocated
at least 16 or more in hardware in a old posting.