"what's those shiny metal boxes you got over there?" "Oh, that's my Schiit"

@ambreiaju

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@astroabood

4 жыл бұрын

polished metal schiit

@LookingGlass69

4 жыл бұрын

@@astroabood polished schiit

@WithinandThroughout

4 жыл бұрын

Magni and Modi

@kreziboi1982

4 жыл бұрын

What shit?

Lol Elon named his son after a sound card

@harrylane4

4 жыл бұрын

Are y'all still making this joke

@prod_bx

3 жыл бұрын

Harrison Lane yes dumbass

@uaespetsnaz2391

3 жыл бұрын

Harrison Lane yes dumbass

@glitchystasis

3 жыл бұрын

@@harrylane4 yes dumbass

@josefmprable

3 жыл бұрын

Elon said his wife chose the name dumbass

A good PCI slot is a filled PCI slot!

@bestleesinna7702

5 жыл бұрын

oh yeah...I'm gonna fill all your PCIe slots baby

@fleefie

5 жыл бұрын

Crossfire four way.

@WorldKeepsSpinnin

5 жыл бұрын

I got 6 ram slots open

@Carewolf

5 жыл бұрын

Well, you need one for the I/O ports serial and parallel, one for the graphics card, one for the IDE controller, and one for the sound card right? Or am I getting old?

@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-

5 жыл бұрын

@@Carewolf Nah you plug a multi IO card into your VESA local bus slot for Serial, Parallel, IDE and gameport and you are set! These are MODERN times. ;)

“Hello guys today I’m going to be reviewing the SCHIIT Modi 2.” KZread: I’m gonna stop you right there

Soundcards in 2017: "We've removed the headphone jack because it's too old"

@RaydeusMX

6 жыл бұрын

Worst part is it wouldn't be a surprise if Creative did such a thing. Those fuckers are the scumbags.

@oskarslacis4130

6 жыл бұрын

Ice Coffee apple innovation 2017 - a sound card with NO 3.5mm jack

@ElectronicsForFun

6 жыл бұрын

so what do we use now? l know you're joking, but if there is no analog output then a sound card is 100% pointless.

@icecoffee1169

6 жыл бұрын

Electronics For Fun- Subtitles

@ElectronicsForFun

6 жыл бұрын

subtitle card? XD

There was a reason Creative put joystick ports on their sound cards: They were used for making music! That port was also used for MIDI interface, or you can use a joystick interface directly to control anything that needs a variable numeric input. In the professional audio arena, Firewire was also a popular choice for connecting to media devices -- it wasn't limited to hard drives and iPods. So that made sense too.

@tz8785

5 жыл бұрын

There were even Firewire DACs.

@GTFour

5 жыл бұрын

It was used to connect my MS Sidewinder gamepad to play Motocross Madness 👌

@MrRailfanning

5 жыл бұрын

I had an firewire'd DAC on an Audigy 2 and later an Audigy 4 Creative soundcard :D

@Raguleader

5 жыл бұрын

Plus, for folks who didn't do music work, video games were probably one of the few applications that would make any use of a sound card's capabilities, so being able to plug your joystick into the sound card instead of needing potentially a second dedicated expansion card just for joystick ports was probably nice. It makes less sense now that we have USB everything (including USB sound cards, go figure.)

@SuperRosso1000

5 жыл бұрын

@@GTFour thank you for this. I totally forgot about that chapter of my life haha

This is one exception that I would buy even when knowing I may not even notice any difference at all. Back in the 90s, we were stuck with the PC speaker for years. Owning a Sound Blaster was the holy grail. When I finally got the Sound Blaster 16 it was amazingly awesome. Even the card itself was beautiful. So yeah.. for nostalgia reasons alone, I would buy a Sound Blaster today.

The sound chip on my mobo stopped working. Didn't want to replace the mobo. So sounds cards suddenly became very relevant.

@kbeau937

5 жыл бұрын

do this sound card.

@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-

5 жыл бұрын

External USB audio interface or sound card would've work just as wel as an internal card though. (And less of a hasle to install) (For years I've been using a cheap Yamaha Audio interface with midi in/out, Microphone input, instrument input+, Jack and Tulip line in and outputs and separate headphone output with it's own volume nob on it. Originally got it second hand for a few 10ers to plug my electric guitar into it. But I haven't used my onboard sound since I got it cause the audiolevels are much higher then the onboard and there is less noise(buzz) in the audio that comes out of it. And the thing is literally Plug and Play just like a USB headset. No special driver installation required so it'll work on any OS. It's awesome. Currently using it connected to a USB port on a Steam Link and it works without any problems on that too.) Or if you have a monitor with HDMI input and an audio output jack connector you could have used the HD Audio HDMI output of your GPU. The last 4 generations of GPU have supported digital audio output over HDMI.

@jemiebridges3197

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhoenixNL72-DEGA- thanks, that a tech tip I was actually not familiar with. That in itself pushes me over the edge. Ugh, but now I have to go research that.

To be fair to Creative, they were putting joystick ports on the sound cards before USB ports were a thing; it was a big selling point in the 90's.

@durtySumthing

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah without that id have been screwed, in fact i still got that card on my pc now soundblaster audigy 2 lol screw on board rubbish.

@Newtype-my3eb

6 жыл бұрын

durtySumthing lol you and me both bro

@ubuntuforever

6 жыл бұрын

It was also used to control MIDI devices, which makes perfect sense on a sound card. MPU-401 anyone?

@Wolfstanus

3 жыл бұрын

Back then it might have been needed based on your pc because not every pc had a port for midi or controllers. You only got 1 port if any at all

@Newtype-my3eb

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wolfstanus yeah maybe if you had a 386 system still like a pleb

Next up RGB condoms

@A.J.21

6 жыл бұрын

Zeus 999 dude you have a million dollar idea here bro.. not joking

@CrazyCrusader1

6 жыл бұрын

Zeus 999 rgb shit

@jeffd696

6 жыл бұрын

I don't need a condom to be rgb, my DEEPWANG is lit by DEEPCOOL rgb lighting strips

@GewelReal

6 жыл бұрын

RGB... kids?

@hugowoesthuis

6 жыл бұрын

How are you going to control that? And would you have a f*** with a adressable RGB cable going inside with your meat stick? "Baby, do you have a condom?" "Yeah, but let me connect the adressable RGB cable here."

I love my creative soundblaster Zx series sound card. Sound quality is a lot a lot better than my integrated sound card on my mother board

I can see an dependent sound card being useful, reducing processing power and could feature the latest audio processors. Having one that is compatible with Dolby Atmos would be pretty awesome. If I were to spend extra for a separate card, I would expect the sound to be notably superior to built-in.

@dickstab

2 жыл бұрын

OR YOU GET HIGHER FPS IN GAMES WITH THE SAME QUALITY OR BETTER. SOUND TAKE A HUGE AMOUNT OF CPU TO CREAT.

@scarecrow5848

10 ай бұрын

@@dickstab false, atleast nowadays. most onboard audio is a seperate chip now, while still processed by the CPU, it removes any load compared to actual CPU audio. a soundcard does the same job, plus its better to get a cheap soundcard for some form of audio output and then use a external dac/amp for actual audio quality.

@ascelot

8 ай бұрын

@@scarecrow5848 make sure cheap internal soundcard is isolated enough from internal interference

3:42 Nooooooo they’re on backwards!

@kevinclinthorne

6 жыл бұрын

Drove me crazy the whole time, its really obvious the way they are supposed to go, just look at the inputs jabbing into their shoulders..... ahhh

@ionceateapinecone

6 жыл бұрын

5:18 Dennis doesn't seem to mind

@benjaminmellingen5340

6 жыл бұрын

Snazzy Labs REEEE!

@elliethehumancomments4801

6 жыл бұрын

lol

@epicsmg2682

6 жыл бұрын

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

5:45 our slightly more expensive S C H I I T

@6legend

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@WRXMK

3 жыл бұрын

That's some good S C H I I T

2:07 whoever founded Schiit Audio needs a lesson in business naming

@CaptHotah

4 жыл бұрын

Actually the story to that is pretty funny and they are doing very well so...

@johncolon4461

4 жыл бұрын

"And the audio quality... goes to Schitt". When schitt is a mark of quality.

@crossbones911

4 жыл бұрын

I know I'll never forget it so there's that.

@BobRooney290

4 жыл бұрын

yeah. they did a good job at enticing their audience with that name. isnt that what selling a product is all about? DUHHHH!

@ToddSauve

3 жыл бұрын

@@BobRooney290 I believe they are a German company and that just happens to be the owner's last name. Kind of unfortunate when translated to English, but that's the risk you run, eh?

What do you get when you stack two dac boxes on top of each other? ....A pile of Schitt.

@DH-mf6rd

3 жыл бұрын

A couple of deuces

Back in the day, sound cards reduced CPU load in gaming. I kinda wished that Linus had tested this to see if it was still true to some extent. Oh, and RGB controller? Dear god.

@getgud9251

2 жыл бұрын

with the modern cpu pushing a dozen plus cores. I dont think it would make any noticeable difference tbh.

@Leo_OMx

2 жыл бұрын

3 years later, sound card owner here. Spotify CPU usage without hardware acceleration is around 1-0.6%, with hardware acceleration enabled cpu usage is 0.6-0%

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leo_OMx Well sound cards do help in many factors too. Plus I recommend the AE-5 Plus cause man it's way different.

@DimitriMoreira

2 жыл бұрын

@@zushikatetomotoshift1575 Would you recommend Plus or Pro?

@theplayerofus319

Жыл бұрын

@@Leo_OMx you dont even state your cpu lol and its basiclly no diffrence so not worth it

1:24 You have beautiful hands, Linus.

@pawhunter340

5 жыл бұрын

Hand fetish much

@JJULLER

5 жыл бұрын

Shimonetta?

@filiphedman4392

5 жыл бұрын

Why is your profile pic two flies having sex.

@stickoutofthemud

4 жыл бұрын

Really REALLY distracting! Arggggh.

@tehalexy

4 жыл бұрын

5:55 is better :p

When creative saw this video they were like hold my beer and then they released the AE9 which not only is extremely competitive with external high end sound modules But also integrates an XLR mixer into the card itself which is freaking awesome And it has the audio module which controls everything which is also awesome no having to reach around the back of the case anymore

Just installed the BlasterX AE-5. WOW, the sound is brilliant and alot clearer when high, and the RGB lights are magic, i have a MSI z170a so this is my first RGB, i just have the rgb light on with the card, i left the strip off as it was very bright and maybe too much. Thanks for this!

Linus. You forgot to test it watercooled for lower temperature resulting in better signal to noise ratio, lower distortion, and better fps.

@WhiteVaille

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Frames per Sound? :thinking:

@PixlRainbow

6 жыл бұрын

White Vaille digital sound does come in frames. It's called "samples per second" or "sample rate"

>own $900+ headphones >puts them on backwards

@evilutionltd

6 жыл бұрын

Craftymang she doesn’t own them.

@Craftymang

6 жыл бұрын

yeah that's plain to see, cringey I own a pair and they are glorious set of cans

@stickmaker10111

6 жыл бұрын

Thats what I did. The microphone canonically goes on the right side of my face.

@Craftymang

6 жыл бұрын

?? I'm talking about the Audeze LCD-2's... they don't have a microphone.

@xLOVExGODx

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!!! Shit is hilarious! What made you purchase the headphones that are near a $1,000?

Once in the past, sound cards did not mean "just a DAC", they had hardware acceleration of 3D sound APIs they provided like A3D from Aureal, hardware EQ and HW synthesizer with sound banks. One of the HW accelerated samples include the old gone nForce2 chipset. Later all this died and everything went back on the CPU.

@bujfvjg7222

Жыл бұрын

nForce2 chipset, had some.of the best PC audio I've ever heard.

Great video as always, I understand the point of the comparison, perhaps from a price standpoint, but my feeling is that the head amp on the card is a nice add-in but where its strength is, is the DAC. Perhaps an interesting comparison would be to use the same Schiit amplifier and compare the DACs (the Schiit DAC vs the SB DAC). I have the feeling that the story would be very different, I could be wrong tho, hence experimentation and testing needed! Keep up the good work mate!

Linus: Incorporate RGB within floppy disks, and they'll make a comeback as well

@rayjaymor8754

6 жыл бұрын

I gather sarcasm isn't something you're good with?

@jeremyreese54

6 жыл бұрын

I found an old external floppy drive in the closet.... Has a floppy disk labeled "internet friends" in it... Not sure whether to investigate further...

@marzuqahmed218

6 жыл бұрын

And binary weaving.

I remember when back in the day a good sound card increased fps :D

@tesityr6722

6 жыл бұрын

They still do :) It just doesn't make 'as much difference' as they used to, due to faster CPUs. However, it still does, since much of the audio processing is passed onto the Soundcard (versus being done on the main CPU) - the larger difference would still be the quality of the sound (clearer and louder) than the on-board audio adapter.

@Krobar

6 жыл бұрын

IIRC Since windows vista it's all software processed anyway. They neutered the audio stack for DRM reasons.

@dexterpedroche

6 жыл бұрын

...or decreased FPS as is the case with Aureal A3D cards. But the HRTF those sound cards generated, especially on supported games, were just amazing! Somehow, 3D sound technology in games regressed after Aureal died. Fck Creative for killing Aureal.

@ollironka8382

6 жыл бұрын

Pallomobiili aijaa suomalaisia :D

@illidur

6 жыл бұрын

"However, it still does, since much of the audio processing is passed onto the Soundcard (versus being done on the main CPU)" Lies.

The joystick connector was actually a midi connector that doubled as a joystick connector.

"I'm having flashbacks to when they were putting like... Firewire ports, and Game ports and stuff on sound cards." I literally have both of these...

to be fair what was called a "joystick port" was really just a general midi port soo it kinda was thing you wanted on good sound card... just saying

@getsideways7257

5 жыл бұрын

At least it was relevant for a sound card. You did need to plug in a MIDI-controller somewhere if you wrote music.

@surject

5 жыл бұрын

And professional audio equipment like ProTools and UAD stuff were connected through FIREWIRE in the 2000s - hence the IEEE1394 port.

@005AGIMA

4 жыл бұрын

Also given PC's didn't have ANY onboard sound, OR any Joystick Ports, AND were short on slots, AND most people wanted a Sound Card....for games....adding a Joystick port onto a soundcard was a GODSEND. When I got my first PC (Amstrad 386DX), coming from a Commadore Amiga, I was shocked at how little it could do "out of the box". First upgrade was a 2 port "game card" (joystick port card), but the shitty internal speaker beeps were too much for me. SO I saved hard again, and purchased the Sound Blaster 16 Pro. OMG great sound AND a joystick port, and I could remove my "game card". WHAT A JOY!!!!!!

@DarthVader1977

4 жыл бұрын

was a* thing

@005AGIMA

4 жыл бұрын

@@DarthVader1977 can you mark my maths homework next please?

3:05 "joystick ports on sound cards" That also doubled as a midi port so you can have external midi modules. HOW ELSE WOULD YOU EXPERIENCE DOOM OTHER THAN WITH A ROLAND SC-55 MIDI MODULE?? FM SYNTH? Madness!

@aishwaryagaidhane

6 жыл бұрын

munxcorp yeah #makemidiportsgreatagain

@MilesPrower1992

6 жыл бұрын

How else? With an MT 32 of course.

@SpektralJo

6 жыл бұрын

And here I am having a project building a synth with an OPL2

@ChickenPermissionOG

6 жыл бұрын

WaveBlaster 64 awe.

I have this card and I love it! Everything about it actually. Great sound quality, it powers my Sennheiser gaming headset perfectly and all of that sweet, sweet RGB LEDs. I got the whole LED kit for it. The software works good for me as well. No issues.

I just got one of these in the mail today. So worth it, it's amazing

@tylert6479

4 жыл бұрын

What is your audio output tho, headphones, a speaker, surround sound setup. Also what were you using prior

@ThunderbolttheFox

4 жыл бұрын

Originally I was using the onboard sound and Razer Kraken 2019. Now I am using the AE-5 with the same Kraken 2019. It is a substantial upgrade in sound

Linus: ''Schitt'' KZread: *DEMONITIZED*

@fordfiveohh

5 жыл бұрын

Basically....

@basshead.

5 жыл бұрын

Schiit*

@GawrGurasBathTubPizza

5 жыл бұрын

like it would affect their budget

Linus: "Bla bla.. soundcard bla bla" Me: "Nah, not interested" Linus: "But wait! This one is different" Me: "What elese linus? There's no way this old soundcard worth My mone-" Linus: "It has RGB" Me: "I am listening."

@bestleesinna7702

5 жыл бұрын

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

@joker432

5 жыл бұрын

Story of my life

@johnjohn898

5 жыл бұрын

Linus: "are sound cards unnecessary??" Linus: "well this one's actually worth it" Linus: "RGB boi" Me: "waste of money"

@jacquesb5248

5 жыл бұрын

lol RGB

@lolerskates876

4 жыл бұрын

But can it play Crysis soundtrack?

Linus, please Make a video for gamers that goes into detail on whether we should be using a sound card or DAC or some sound solution or just our USB headphones.

I love my soundblaster and drives my DT 990's beautifully.

The "Joystick" port was a generic media port, at the time it was included, to be used with either joysticks and game controllers OR MIDI devices. It had an audio purpose on audio hardware.

@zendoclone1

6 жыл бұрын

Add RGB to it, it will make a comeback!

@-na-nomad6247

6 жыл бұрын

I was surprised Linus didn't know that -_-'

@rich1051414

6 жыл бұрын

It was useful for me back then. Motherboards starting leaving out the general midi port, and my favorite controllers used it. Back when saitek had all the good stuff :( I think logitech owns them now, maybe they will turn it around? When mad catz bought out saitek, it was a sad day...

@PissMasterPlus

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Gameport is no longer supported in recent windows versions.

@4675636b596f755954

6 жыл бұрын

Also, let's be honest, the port on eg the Sound Blaster Pro saved a gamer the extra cost (and ISA slot, was it?) of a dedicated joystick card. Joysticks were important for the full coin-up experience, which was peak gaming back then.

It has no water cooling, so I'm not interested.

@r3dleh107

6 жыл бұрын

indeed :)

@plus12gaming

6 жыл бұрын

It needs tempered glass too

@neoqueto

6 жыл бұрын

Waiting for EKWB to release a water block for this.

@neoqueto

6 жыл бұрын

Hose no Star Wars Collector's Edition

@anotter_one

6 жыл бұрын

Is your avatar related to grim fandango? I love that game.

I have had an exquisite Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card for almost 9 years now. The sound out of this puppy is great. I have it connected directly to my stereo with a digital coaxial cable. The sound from it (my media library is FLAC audio mostly) is superb and great. To me, if your audio or media source is from your PC, it's a good idea to have a discrete sound card.

I was like "Yay! Max is back!" And then i saw the actual date for the video -_-

She put the audeze headphones on the wrong way, very professional testing! Oh you all did.. even professionaller!

@domme88

6 жыл бұрын

Was the first thing I noticed...

@peterpaul195

6 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment the same... Somebody's going to be triggered. Well I'm triggered haha

@jonkullberg7197

6 жыл бұрын

me too

@DJPsyq

6 жыл бұрын

It doesn't actually matter which way you put on headphones, dude.

@SoundJudgment

6 жыл бұрын

**"Act-ing!"** for the camera.

I've always loved having streaming audio recording with the creative cards. Onboard audio is good but still has a very long way to go when it comes to surround sound and audio manipulation.

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

look at linuses cute nail polish🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This sound card review has closed captioning. Why would a deaf person want a sound card? The RGB!!!

@sithlordslim547

4 жыл бұрын

I'm an anime fan, so I watch videos with subtitles or "closed captioning" enabled anyway :-p The comment was still funny though, hence the reply.

@thedarkness125

4 жыл бұрын

Deaf folks still listen to and write music and better sound quality provides higher quality vibration as well. Just a heads up it is a thing.

@casparhughey5651

4 жыл бұрын

@@thedarkness125 I dated and married one. They do listen to music. My deaf friend wins "guess the metallica song" quiz

@acdcjor

3 жыл бұрын

@@casparhughey5651 They could feel the low frequencies on the body, but how can they listen to music if they're deaf? ಠ_ಠ

@mattmorgan2525

3 жыл бұрын

@@acdcjor the vast majority of Deaf people have some residual hearing.

Yes I do, I love listening to music with its maximum quality.

Do they do strippers with RGB?

@Aldarux

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and they even come with a free (!!!) RGB dildo!

@FrozenLMAO

6 жыл бұрын

ye they are also know as christmas trees

@ArtemisKitty

6 жыл бұрын

You're about 5 years too late if so. First saw them being released (and almost fell over laughing) in 2012, beating the PC RGB trend by a long shot.

@larsvassenjansen1651

6 жыл бұрын

you gotta pay extra for that

@FederalBureauInvestigation_YT

6 жыл бұрын

I need an Amazon link to the rgb dildo

Joystick ports on sound cards date from a time when your PC otherwise didn't have one. The IDE Multi I/O cards that we all got didn't show up until years later.

@JamesPotts

6 жыл бұрын

And, they doubled as midi ports.

@GhostCow

6 жыл бұрын

We all got? I don't remember those at all. It was always about just using your sound card

@JamesPotts

6 жыл бұрын

Randall Danger, he means that non-soundcards with joystick ports didn't show up until later.

@tomf3150

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, but nothing beats a good old interrupt based joystick. Just like kbd.

@redgeoblaze3752

6 жыл бұрын

also from a time when joysticks had unique ports instead of usb, or bluetooth

3:01 Joysticks ports to you.... amazing MIDI capabilities to me ;-)

When they mounted the joystick port on the soundcards, it was a good move, because those ports could perfeclty handle the electronics and offload CPUs back when you had just 1 CPU core... I am in process of upgrading to new system, old one has one nice Creative Xfi, however newer board has quite usable onboard sound.

Ok now who the fuck names a company “Schiit?”

@Erowens98

6 жыл бұрын

Mitochondriac best way to tell if a company is shit, look at the cables they recommend. As long as the cables are shielded, they won't sound any different.

@tumaru892

6 жыл бұрын

To answer your question by answering it instead of schiiting on a company it was named that way because the guy who started the company kept saying "I'm going out to work on shit" to his wife and she said something along the lines of why don't you just call the company that (I don't recall what she said) and so he did. The being brought up is that the schiity headphone amps were putting out a extremely high DC shock when being turned off. First schiit ignored the problem then they claimed it was normal for audiophile equipment and you should unplug your headphones before turning off your equipment. This DC shock can damage your headphones. They had to have proof that it was real and could damage your hearphones. So they put in a muting switch at power on and off. However it seemed to me like the schiit guy was just too arrogant to change rather than too cheap. I was just trying to find another headphone amp that is comparable for the same price range in Europe but couldn't find one. Just compare power output and other numbers around with other things around the magni price. However you probably weren't even interested in any of that drama and the stupidity of having to get your opinion on the issue down on the subject (that's how I feel about this what I wrote at least).

@disco1974ever

6 жыл бұрын

Mr & Mrs Schiit.

@clansman89

6 жыл бұрын

How is Focusrite Scarlett compared to Schiit? I find its price reasonable

@Erowens98

6 жыл бұрын

It's a favorite among mucisians. Really meant more as a microphone/recording interface than a dac. My favorite bang per buck dac/amp is the FiiO - E10K Olympus. Good for headphones up to 150 ohms.

I get the feeling Linus' computer experience started at a time right when sound cards were becoming obsoleted and doesn't remember that there was a time when your computer didn't do anything but beep and bloop through the PC Speaker, and in order to get even Midi-like sound you needed things like the AdLib card and in a time where computers needed multiple expansion cards to keep up with the game, having a joystick/game port on your audio card was a real life saver as you might not have had any spare PCI slots for a dedicated expansion just for that. Now granted, my experience with PCs came equally late in the game (I'm under 30) but at least I learned enough about computer history to understand why things were that way. For anyone else wanting to learn just how far we've come, Lazy Game Reviews has a wonderful channel full of old computer stuff.

@blahorgaslisk7763

6 жыл бұрын

Actually you didn't have ANY PCI slots back then. It was 8 and 16 bit ISA all the way!

@ShawnJonesHellion

6 жыл бұрын

Fuck u I'm not old xD

@desepticon4

6 жыл бұрын

Plus, putting firewire on an audio card makes perfect sense. Tons of professional audio equipment used to use firewire. Daisy-chain baby!

@blahorgaslisk7763

6 жыл бұрын

At one time FireWire was thought to be The One Interface that would take over everything to do with high speed connections for storage, sound and so on, leaving USB for mice, keyboards, game controllers and other stuff that didn't need any bandwidth to speak of. The reason FW was incorporated into so many sound cards probably had more to do with the ability to import digital video from DV recorders rather than high end audio equipment. A lot of DV recorders was sold to consumers, and the idea that you would be able to import the video to a computer was something that sounded almost like SciFi. But in the end a large majority of these never had anything FireWire based attached to them ever. I've worked as a computer technician since the 80's, and FireWire devices never really took off for the PC market. Even after the FW interface became common the added cost drove people to USB alternatives. The Apple crowd on the other hand was quite happy to adopt FW for external storage and such. But even if FW was huge with the Mac crowd you have to remember that at the time Apple had perhaps 3% of the market...

@lauratiso

6 жыл бұрын

And now Apple throw away FW and replaced all with USB 3.1 and Thunderbold...

Check out Anthony giving the headset the obligatory "bounce in hand to test for quality" check.... lol, love that guy, always such a ham.

For the last 8 years I have used a USB DAC/amp I built from scratch, driving my 600ohm DT 770 PRO. Didn't see any performance problems in any applications, and didn't need to install drivers for any of the modern operating systems I have used it with.

Still rocking my Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer PCI card, which I got in 2007.

@davidrico2667

6 жыл бұрын

And my Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum, from 2002, on windows 10 with free drivers www.github.com/kxproject

@Argoon1981

5 жыл бұрын

And my Audigy 4 pro on windows 10 with daniel k's 6.2 drivers pack. EAX on old games is still impressive and at the same time so sad seeing how today gamers don't get to experience that.

@LordPrometheous

5 жыл бұрын

I got mine about the same time. Circuit City was going out of business, and since I worked there part time, I hid my sound card behind a covered portion of the shelf it was on, so nobody else would bother it at the last moment. It finally started having a crackling noise a couple years ago. I had no way to fix it, so I regrettably threw it away. No more Dolby Live (or whatever it was called), no more EAX enabled sound on games. I miss it.

@LucasJodokast

5 жыл бұрын

and my X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series that I got back in 2010, I still reckon my card combined with my Astro A50s running Dolby Digital LIVE through the TOSLINK cable shits on anything shown in this video, not to mention I have EAX for older games

@LordPrometheous

5 жыл бұрын

@@LucasJodokast God I miss my Dolby Live and EAX. Whenever I build a new PC I always test it with Baldurs Gate 2, since I can enable EAX to test it.

I still have SB Live, Audigy and X-Fi. The last one still attached on my primary PC.

@edstar83

5 жыл бұрын

Same I thought I was only one lol

@WinZard

5 жыл бұрын

me 3..... lol looking for a pci adapter so I can still use it when I upgrade. LOL x-fi elite pro..... wish I could find that remote o0p

@GTFour

5 жыл бұрын

Loved my X-FI card, I wonder if I’d even notice a difference getting a new modern upgrade?

@Teeb2023

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, still got an X-fi in one PC, its "What U Hear" recording is flawless, and surprisingly handy.

@TheAdatto

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I even have 3 awe32's laying around

FYI - FireWire and "joystick ports" were actually put there for audio/MIDI ;)

Original reason for sound card was performance improvement, sound quality was an added bonus. Also, to add the ability to rip audio at higher quality, as well as to upgrade to the then new 5.1 and then 7.1 which wasn't an option for a long time (standard now). You would buy a MB without audio, add a PCI audio card. Not buy a MB with audio and replace/disable onboard audio. Some newer high end gaming MB have built in audio with DAC processors (if you look hard enough), etc. Also, the design of newer systems and newer software compression, it becomes less likely you will need as a regular everyday gamer. But was hoping someone like Linus with his $40,000 PC setups would run some benchmarks to see if there is any performance differences with or without a dedicated sound card. Also, with the external, won't you have audio latency? Even with USB 3.1 (a and b), no? Is your USB lanes faster than my PCIe slot?

@scarecrow5848

10 ай бұрын

1, audio latency. nope. you can use audio cables over massive lengths and have no latency. its called having a wire. even USB 1.0 wont have any latency, since audio really isn't THAT hard to send signals for. 2, there wont be any noticable performance difference nowadays for adding a internal soundcard, mabye like 1-2 FPS average higher with a slight lift in FPS drops. I personally havent noticed any difference at all after installing my SB ZSE into my rig.

One of these days I'm going to get a seizure from all this RGB

@ristopaasivirta9770

6 жыл бұрын

But that's when the fun starts.

@zacharygoterch168

6 жыл бұрын

I get all the RGB I could ever want from playing Thumper (well, that and I feel like I go down some kind of acid trip every time I play the game...)

@nekdo_kavc

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what should I pick: full silent or full RGB computer.

@bbdawise

6 жыл бұрын

We'll be sure to deck out your coffin in RGB too.

@Guidje

6 жыл бұрын

pink floyd reference i guess...??

I have the soundblaster zx in my system right now. I use a pair of senheiser cans and it sounds a hell of a lot better than using my boards plugs. I also have a good pair of klipsch speakers + sub connect to it. Stereo Direct is incredible. Music plays a huge role in my life as well, so I really do take advantage of my purchase :)

@MinehowTech

6 жыл бұрын

TheXForgottenXSavior im considering getting a ZX, but I don't have a high impedance headset imnonky considering it to use with Logitech z506.

@sammulder9532

6 жыл бұрын

Do u use the front panel connectors of the case or plug your headphones on the back?

@MinehowTech

6 жыл бұрын

Sam Mulder I don't use headphones yet because rear audio is to shit and front panel audio is completely trash.

@marceljones7940

6 жыл бұрын

i use 15$ pc-speakers i bought 14 years ago -.-

Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS with the front panel 5.25'' controller with the remote

Thanks the video I needed because I haven't upgraded my pc in 10 years.

Schiiting out good content 24/7

@MrPaulCurtis

6 жыл бұрын

Anker and Schiit

Should have titled the video "Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 is not Schiit"

@TheTaylorhorton

6 жыл бұрын

Dragon Slayer Ornstein Why does this not have more likes???

Got a AE-5, been using it with a pair of Sennheiser 599's, it sound great, huge improvement vs built in motherboard sound, especially for listening to music.

Firewire was a good solution in 1995 when they needed fast enough port for recording 8 tracks of CD quality audio in the Pro Tools Session 8 sound card. Sadly not a cheap solution, but it did make it possible to record a drum set with at least minimum amount of mics back then.

Old Sound Blaster : No RGB but Dolby and DTS / New Sound Blaster : RGB but no Dolby and DTS What an improvement !

Joystick ports weren’t originally made for joysticks. It’s midi.

@NoOneCares2k

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Scruggs so glad someone else corrected this. Sound cards have built-in midi ports that early game controllers used, but were primarily there to attach external sound equipment.

@JoeJacksonJr

6 жыл бұрын

LOL yep.. Used to plug my keyboard in that way back in high school..

@bryceforsyth8521

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this comment.

@Flowxing

6 жыл бұрын

Also analog joysticks require an ADC, which is only present on a sound card.

@kbhasi

6 жыл бұрын

Yep!

I just noticed the Schitt Modi/Magni combo. I have these.. they're very good indeed.

Got the AE-5 Pure a few weeks ago, huge upgrade from on board, AND I can run 3.5mm to RCA splitter cable from the L/R to my external amp for my bookshelf speakers, as well as a separate 3.5 to RCA from the C/Sub out to my powered sub and cross over. Note that you must uncheck "full range speakers" in the software for the sub to get signal. Also drives my SHP9500's very nicely, you can select the resistance range of your cans in the software. I really like the custom EQ's ability to draw the freq curve, as well, can't wait to take some measurements with my UMIK-1 and import from REW. Another plus is that I was able to get rid of the clutter on my PC desk from the external DAC which can now sit and wait (along with the Fosi BT30E amp) for when I go to a 2.1 setup for the bedroom TV.

@derekw9358

2 жыл бұрын

how was the performance on your bookshelf speakers .. and what about headphone.. does the xamp tech makes a difference? was thinking of getting one... but surprised to found out what happened to sound card market... never realized creative labs gone thru so much these years.. haha... from one of the top dogs to almost hobo in less than a decade.. and Asus is not updating their sound card line up.. else i was thinking of getting their xonar series of sound card... let me know what you think about it. thanks...

3:45 I'm quite surprised the surround software did not help when she was wearing the LCD2/3 reversed lmao

I've been wanting you guys to cover this forever. I love mine, I really wanted a solution that wouldn't take up any desk space.

@dogle9258

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you said something. I really didnt think anyone would prefer hooking the cable up to the back of your computer compared to a nice headphone port setting on your desk. I'm glad there is always that guy out there.

@mrdavester

6 жыл бұрын

i'm with you there. I want a clean desk top and no extra wires. I'm ok with plugging headphones into the front of my PC and the volume wheel on my corsair keyboard is all i need.

the joy stick port on a sound blaster I always found strange but was a godsend

I am glad Creative is still around. I remember them way back in the 90's...never had any issues with their products. They saved me from DOS games in midi or PC speaker lol

Aren't they wearing the Audeze's backwards ? The thick side of the pad should be on the back and the connectors leaving the headphone should face outwards not towards the body.

@xxflubzxx4531

6 жыл бұрын

Serhat Köşeli sadly my friend you are correct

I swear I just bought a Creative Sound Blaster Z (not for any performance increase, just because Win10 and Realtek HD Audio decided I didn't need audio and video at the same speed when streaming) and now this comes out.

@rollingrock3480

6 жыл бұрын

The AE is like $50 more, I just checked it. I am in love with my SoundblasterZ, it has literally changed my life. Anyone who says soundcards are meaningless have never hooked up a $150 set of headphones to a $100 soundcard inside their PC. One of my friends looked like he was going to cry when he first heard his favorite song on it.

@rollingrock3480

6 жыл бұрын

What is your comment supposed to mean?

@jayw654

6 жыл бұрын

Sunder Gaming I have a TEAC UD-503 and I swear by it.

@justuslm

6 жыл бұрын

Rolling Rock I mean that in a random coincidence, LTT just reviewed a product from the same line that I just bought a product from. This isn't surprising when buying new stuff as an upgrade, but when buying a fix for a problem it's pretty rare.

@issaciams

6 жыл бұрын

I hope by now this comes out you mean the video because this sound card has been out for a little while now.

The other use case for soundblaster cards is low latency monitoring for music recording software and DAW packages. You simply cant get as low latency using a USB interface as you can with a native PCI card, and the DACs on the premium cards generally compare favorably with those on mid range USB modules. Very useful if you want to use software amp sims and soft synths. There is pretty much no other way to get 5ms round trip monitoring (and that include routing though a DAW channel with effects on it) without spending 10's of $K on a pro tools rig.

Your team needs to stop wearing the LCD2's backwards

@theojones6129

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@vip3re

3 жыл бұрын

Ah... c'mon, leave the poor kids alone ;)

i've been using sound cards ever since the beginning of my PC building years, and they are noticeably different from on board, but i always use speakers ( i hate headphones ) so the sound card has always been a nice add on, unfortunately my sound blaster fatality died last year and i've been looking for a replacement for a while, and now i see something that actually looks worth getting, cant wait to try this card out

@avatar94100

6 жыл бұрын

which one ?

@Sarevok57

6 жыл бұрын

i think it was a x-fi sound blaster fatality, at least that is what it looks like, i think it requires a pcie 4 slot, and it came with some great software as well

@theobserver4214

6 жыл бұрын

Get X-Fi Titanium, it still supports EAX 5.0 in hardware but is a little more modern and still has Windows 10 drivers (Daniel_k)

Don’t knock the old midi joystick port. Believe it or not, we still had to connect peripherals before USB came on the scene and that was pretty much the only way to connect a joystick. And since this was before on-board audio, you had to have a sound card anyway so it all worked together.

6:50 Did... Did you just plug in a USB-A into a MacBook? Woah...

@tusharshukla1990

4 жыл бұрын

It's an old MacBook air with usbA slot 😋

@dennisren5786

3 жыл бұрын

@@tusharshukla1990 whoosh

I actually have the Audigy 2 ZS... yes the one with the FireWire connector, I also have the front panel for it, which is pretty cool

So many people wearing the Audeze Backwards.....

@Fluffyguy958

6 жыл бұрын

TheKez1a Audeze nuts

@ErykDante

6 жыл бұрын

I noticed aswell. It hurts.

@RinmaxD

6 жыл бұрын

TheKez1a so ezedua

@Falcrist

6 жыл бұрын

Oh my god...

@crenshawyeo

6 жыл бұрын

i wouldn’t put it past LMG to have reversed the connections just to screw with us though.....

It all depends on your audio setup.

@andrewfoot4610

6 жыл бұрын

I had to buy a sound card because my built in sound chip in my motherboard had white noise so it was unplayable with headphones.

@stashymane

6 жыл бұрын

No Schiit.

i have a soundblaster soundcard in my pc and its probably the best improvement i made to my pc, esp for watching videos and shows/movies/concerts on my pc. if u use external speakers especially. it really allowed me to utilise the 2.1 logitech speakers and a subwoofer to its fullest potential.

Got the AE-5 Plus and have no regrets

trust me soundblaster Z or X is actually much better than 100% of the motherboard on-board sound out there at the moment

@Jixejo

6 жыл бұрын

for same reason silent films were better than the talkies, because we prefer visual over hearing. most people if forced to choose in a pub quiz would rather be deaf than blind :)

@oo-ef2eq

5 жыл бұрын

so many kids got no money to afford these sound card. :)

@thrashwerk

5 жыл бұрын

jolena auvuya Yeah if you have to choose only one then most will probably choose visuals but sound and visuals can enhance each other if done right. Also the analogy of silent movies or normal movies vs deaf or blind doesn't make sense. You can compare a silent movie to being deaf but you can't do the same for talkies and being blind because talkies still have visuals.

@Patrick73787

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a happy Sound Blaster ZxR owner. The card is plugged near my 2 GTX 1080s.

@SimonZellox

5 жыл бұрын

I just got an old Sound Blaster x-fi Titanium (from 2008) and it sounds way better than onboard audio.

When I was still gaming with my P4 @ 2.53Ghz in 2006, I really needed a 24-bit sound card (creative) to have great sound. But current onboard HD Audio chips are good enough for me *^_^*

I liked the ZxR with separate headphone output. Switch from Speakers to Headphones without an external switch or recabling. Also keeps the same output device so no need to restart software or change settings and automatically switches between 5.1/7.1 and 2.0 for the headphones. The user experience in this case is much greater than with an external dac.

Running 4 tactile transducers on my sim racing chassis required me to have two sound cards. I'm glad I kept my Sound Blaster Z PCIe card. Onboard audio for transducers and the "Z" pushes my 5.1 audio. Racing isn't the same without the transducers.

I rock a SoundBlaster Z right now, and actually just got in/installed a SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum EX for my Windows XP rig, which has its own external firewire interface!! But I've never once used a PCIe sound card to run directly to headphones (without an audio interface like the Audigy). Many reasons against that. But provides cleaner sound for my mixers/etc to run headphones from.

@dirtyred2000

6 жыл бұрын

EposVox Eyyy love your stuff. Big fan!

@EposVox

6 жыл бұрын

Thx

@dirtyred2000

6 жыл бұрын

Not a problem! Keep it up, I tune when I can. Really love how you break stuff down sometimes.

@sandeshjadhav8804

6 жыл бұрын

Rig with Windows XP? damn nigga respeck!

@valken666

6 жыл бұрын

I dare you to do that with Windows 95!

Do all Canadians wear audeze headphones backwards?

@nightmareinaction629

6 жыл бұрын

Ethan Frye huh weird just noticed tbay

DT990PRO my fav headphones

Creative is so amazing I love their speakers and cards

Had no idea they still make sound cards (never bothered to look) untill I watched this video. The more you know

@b3at2

6 жыл бұрын

based_will music production= sound cards.

@pip5528

6 жыл бұрын

The latest I had heard of was Sound Blaster Z.

@khmergodhobbies

6 жыл бұрын

gotta gets something to fill in those pcie slots bruh

@kyanoang3l0_old

6 жыл бұрын

Tbh, I didn't mind old Realtek HD and mostly forgot about sound cards 'til a relative gifted me a Sound Blaster X-Fi HD (USB card). I edit music as a hobby, and ever since I got the card, I can't imagine going back to Realtek. It's like playing games with an AMD or Nvidia for the first time after being stuck w/ Intel graphics for so long. Lol.

@bartonez123

6 жыл бұрын

Sound cards are still needed for music production, and they usually have a noticeable difference in sound quality. However, internal sound cards, honestly I don't see them much anymore. Very niche market for this product.

If you have good headphones

@jasolt4372

6 жыл бұрын

... They don't.

@dominikrozum7191

6 жыл бұрын

DanielRichards644 I have never seen a LTT video without you commenting lol

@dj94545gaming

6 жыл бұрын

DanielRichards644 the only real answer, and thanks for not just saying first :)

@trbotimmmmmmmeh

6 жыл бұрын

also if you do anything on your computer other than video games

@dertythegrower

6 жыл бұрын

As an ex-sound blaster live customer, I will never buy an audio card again... but i am not an audiophile and think literally more than 99 percent of PC users will never notice the difference between today's onboard and standalone audio... only audiophiles which is probably near 0.1 of all PC consumers

You had me at built-in RGB lighting

Ooo i think i had the 1st one that poped up there, loved it..

At least the joystick port was actually a repurposed MIDI interface

"NO you hold on smarty pants" Oh no whats he ranting about again "It has fully built in rgb" .... •_• oh shit

@8sync735

6 жыл бұрын

Sir Antler *schitt

@andrewryan1036

6 жыл бұрын

My Exact Reaction!

Great card, dynamic, clear and powerful sound, unfortunately with the new software Sound Blaster Command the equalizer has been limited to only 12dB on both the AE-5, AE-7 and AE-9, early versions of the AE-5 software allowed EQs up to 24dB. Because of this my Sound Blaster Z whose software allows equalizing up to 24dB still sounds better than my AE-7 on my new Sennhaiser 560s, Sad .... Please Creative give us back the 24dB EQ, let full power flow.

I wasn't going to buy but then I found out it has RGB. I then purchased two of them and set them up via crossfire. I went from 24 fps in Forspoken to hearing twice the frames in true 3d. It's lit.