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BARNEY · 04-14-2004, 05:31 PM

Soundstorm witj full on MCP-T is about on par with the Audigy, if not a tad above - if you use either your optical out or RCA out. If you use Analog out then you are getting only AC97 (alc650) sound through the realtek dac only. Your MCP-T sound is quite formidable actually. But to hear the digital differrence you need speakers, or an external decoder to match it. Logitech has several that will match. In your case I would stick with your digital solution. Now having said that I don't want the others above to think that onboard alalog is no good. It's relative to what you use your PC for. For many onboard is just fine. Sensura emulation is good enough for most - and AC97 covers that, and - if you don't have a problem with it then your fine. Soundstorm though will do EAX 1 and 2. Ac97 wil only do sensura emulation and Miles fast (which is not bad).

04-14-2004, 05:31 PM	#7
BARNEY Member (8 bit) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: DFW Posts: 233	Soundstorm witj full on MCP-T is about on par with the Audigy, if not a tad above - if you use either your optical out or RCA out. If you use Analog out then you are getting only AC97 (alc650) sound through the realtek dac only. Your MCP-T sound is quite formidable actually. But to hear the digital differrence you need speakers, or an external decoder to match it. Logitech has several that will match. In your case I would stick with your digital solution. Now having said that I don't want the others above to think that onboard alalog is no good. It's relative to what you use your PC for. For many onboard is just fine. Sensura emulation is good enough for most - and AC97 covers that, and - if you don't have a problem with it then your fine. Soundstorm though will do EAX 1 and 2. Ac97 wil only do sensura emulation and Miles fast (which is not bad). Last edited by BARNEY; 04-14-2004 at 05:33 PM.