Hi,
I'm going to hear the surround sound in my new house
to see if it's something that my PC really needs. Now I've got Delta 2496 + Creative I-Trigue L3450 2.1 set and it's really fine. But I'm wondering if it would be better for me to have another speakers set especially for gaming (BFBC2 online), or BluRay movies... you know - to impress wife
Don't bother the sound card, I'll buy some 7.1, probably X-Fi Xtreme Music or - if there's no big difference - maybe even some used Audigy 2 SE from Ebay.
Because there's no funds available, I have to pick the cheapest option - I mean used set - it's only way to get something worth its price, and not "buzzing", or having deep bass and clean mids.
Question is - which surround set you would propose ? It's soo many models now (as far as I can see, not every new one is better than old one - like Z-5500 and successors), many "new" vendors etc... Additionally there are 5.1 and 7.1 sets, where as I presume only difference is for movies (most games is still 5.1 ?). So for overall gaming AND movies is it better to pick 5.1 ? I'm not oriented for gaming only, or for movies only.
So far I've seen cheap Creative T7900 7.1 set, and some Logitech X-540 5.1 one. I'd prefer wider frequency response (20-20k), not 35/40-20k. It would be brilliant, if speakers weren't too old, like 7 years old :/ Have you got any types of speakers worth for hunting on Ebay ?
Cheers
I'm going to hear the surround sound in my new house
to see if it's something that my PC really needs. Now I've got Delta 2496 + Creative I-Trigue L3450 2.1 set and it's really fine. But I'm wondering if it would be better for me to have another speakers set especially for gaming (BFBC2 online), or BluRay movies... you know - to impress wife Don't bother the sound card, I'll buy some 7.1, probably X-Fi Xtreme Music or - if there's no big difference - maybe even some used Audigy 2 SE from Ebay.
Because there's no funds available, I have to pick the cheapest option - I mean used set - it's only way to get something worth its price, and not "buzzing", or having deep bass and clean mids.
Question is - which surround set you would propose ? It's soo many models now (as far as I can see, not every new one is better than old one - like Z-5500 and successors), many "new" vendors etc... Additionally there are 5.1 and 7.1 sets, where as I presume only difference is for movies (most games is still 5.1 ?). So for overall gaming AND movies is it better to pick 5.1 ? I'm not oriented for gaming only, or for movies only.
So far I've seen cheap Creative T7900 7.1 set, and some Logitech X-540 5.1 one. I'd prefer wider frequency response (20-20k), not 35/40-20k. It would be brilliant, if speakers weren't too old, like 7 years old :/ Have you got any types of speakers worth for hunting on Ebay ?
Cheers