**Please can anyone with a Asus Xonar D2X Post there Audio settings **Thnaks:)

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if you wouldn't mind would you all be able to post your asus sound card settings , (Asus Xonar D2X) maybe via screenshot or similar. Just so i No the best settings to use.


Cheers ,This will really help.
 
Set channels to match whatever material you're listening to. (usually 2 for music, 6 for most DVDs, 8 for blu-ray and games).

For speaker use Hi-Fi mode.

Headphones - try all 3 Dolby Headphone modes and Hi Fi mode. Pick what suits you.

For me it's DH1 (if material is mastered for speakers - basically the vast majority of stuff) or Hi-Fi (for binaural recordings) depending on material.
 
I have a Xonar D2 (which is essentialy the same card as you but PCI):

Settings are PCM, 192 KHz, 8 Channels. I have Dolby Headphone/7.1 Virtual Surround enabled on and off (mostly on though) and hardly ever touch the presets on the Control Panel.

Recently came into the posession of some very nice audiophile headphones and tried tweaking the settings, but they did not improve so I have left them as they were.
 
No just leave it on 2 as you don't want other channels being output when those speakers don't exist.
 
Cheers mate , thank you very much , also when i watch movies with power DVD , do i need to change the EQ?? O Mg im simply blown away by the difference in sound quality absoloutley amazing!! Cant wait till i get the Z5500s:)
 
No need to change any EQ :) You want to have your music as unfiltered as possible!

If you had an external AMP for example, though, you could fine tune the tone controls (bass & treble) to suit your speakers but since this isn't the case I'd just leave be. The EQ bars in software often change the sound too much whereas the hardware controls on an AMP for bass/treble don't in the same way.
 
^^ mate i need some help. when i put the Setting on game mode for playing my games , the gun fire sound and explosions sound very tinny and not very loud what could be the reason i left the EQ on default? cheers.
 
I don't use game mode (GX3D) as I think it's not needed at all and GX mode stops FRAPS recording game sound too.

Normal Hi-Fi mode for everything, no problems enjoying games at all in positional 3D.
 
Slight problem with that Khaaan! Your advice would be fine if the majority of games had a decent headphone mode. The vast majority just do left and right stereo planning. There is no 3D information there!

By all means use hi-fi mode for something like L4d that has a half decent headphone mode (although I prefer Dolby Headphone). For everything else, you rely on the soundcard for positional audio.

To the OP - try both and go with what suits you.

Edit: Khaaan - I have a lot of time for the 'audio purity' argument but unless you're using a binaural recording, using HRTFs with headphones arguably gives you a something closer to the intended experience. Game audio comes down to simulations and HRTF tech like Dolby Headphone and CMSS-3D are just part of the simulation.
 
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I've never had a problem and I've played a fair number of games. I have Sennheiser HD555 and have no such trouble hearing directional audio in any game so far! My current daily game is Bad Company 2 in Hi-Fi mode in game.
 
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Khaaan! said:
I've never had a problem and I've played a fair number of games. I have Sennheiser HD555 and have no such trouble hearing directional audio in any game so far! My current daily game is Bad Company 2 in Hi-Fi mode in game.
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Of course you can perceive direction with stereo but you're doing it in the same way as you interpret perspective on a 2d image as a 3D representation. It's not quite the same really. Stereo volume panning is basically 1 dimensional audio. 5.1 (and simulated 5.1 like DH) is 2D. If you represent elevation that's 3D but that's quite rare in game audio (but X-Fis can sort of 'fudge' it on the fly in hardware audio games).
 
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Elevation definitely works even in 2.0/Stereo/Hi-Fi in games.

In Bad Company 2 I can distinctly hear ricochet and gunfire as well as footsteps above and below in accordance with where they are in the game world.

It's the whole reason why I don't miss my X-Fi Gamer a single bit because the experience in all the games i have played has been no different, i.e., still excellent.
 
Uriel said:
Slight problem with that Khaaan! Your advice would be fine if the majority of games had a decent headphone mode. The vast majority just do left and right stereo planning. There is no 3D information there!

By all means use hi-fi mode for something like L4d that has a half decent headphone mode (although I prefer Dolby Headphone). For everything else, you rely on the soundcard for positional audio.

To the OP - try both and go with what suits you.

Edit: Khaaan - I have a lot of time for the 'audio purity' argument but unless you're using a binaural recording, using HRTFs with headphones arguably gives you a something closer to the intended experience. Game audio comes down to simulations and HRTF tech like Dolby Headphone and CMSS-3D are just part of the simulation.
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Hang on, are you suggesting that games which do not have good headphone modes should be set at 7.1 in-game?
 
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Set channels to match whatever material you're listening to. (usually 2 for music, 6 for most DVDs, 8 for blu-ray and games).
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I use the above on my DX Uriel, but what should i have sample rate at? Basically i have kept it at 192khz regardless of wether im watching a dvd/blu ray, playing games or listening to music.
 
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I use the above on my DX Uriel, but what should i have sample rate at? Basically i have kept it at 192khz regardless of wether im watching a dvd/blu ray, playing games or listening to music.
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Ideally you want to bit-match your source material. In practice I found just leaving it on 192khz sounded fine.
 
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