SQ Sound Card

**_Dejan_** · 10-07-2009, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by summer69guy

have you tried with a home psu directly on the motherboard with a pair of headphone?

When Im have pc in test bench Im use original 90W PSU which is included in Travla case, and Im listen sound by headphone and has been same. But Im not test other outputs, because is inposible test it by headphones(RCA outputs without headphone amplifiers)... On bench Im get pooping/crackling too so is not problem PSU.
I will buy some other sound card(must have ASIO, internal routing and Win7 support) and see if will work... And if will work I will try put this Claro Halo in home pc but I think it wil not work on it because OS is Win 2003. Before all this I will tomorrow remove mini pci express UMTS card which share same IRQ if this is problem, but currently I don't use it yet because is in case and provide interference(I can hear when search network in speakers)...

**soundman98** · 10-07-2009, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by summer69guy

could you say me how to do this with audiomulch?

Originally Posted by _Dejan_

Now Im back from garage. Im spend 3h with trying to get work DirectSound.
In AudioMulch Im select DirectSound
Then Im for Input device select Line 1(Virtual Audio Cable)
Set buffer to 8192
For Output Im select Speakers (Claro Halo)
Set buffer to 8192

In Audio Input Im assign to SoundIn: Line1(Virtual Audio Cable) CH1&CH2

In Audio Output Im assign to SoundOut: Speakers (Claro Halo) CH1&CH2 (TW)
AuxOut1: Speakers (Claro Halo) CH3&CH4 (SUB)
AuxOut2: Speakers (Claro Halo) CH5&CH6
AuxOut3: Speakers (Claro Halo) CH7&CH8 (MID)

No mather to which Output I connect signal allways play only from tweeters :S So from other speakers I can't get sound.
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Console:
If I select DirectSound I can from combobox select only modex which are 2 channel for example something like this:
...
44100Hz/24Bit/1CH
44100Hz/24Bit/2CH
48000Hz/24Bit/1CH
48000Hz/24Bit/2CH
96000Hz/24Bit/1CH
96000Hz/24Bit/2CH
...

I think I will change soundcard to some other PCI card which have Internal routing and Windows 7 support but first I must find it...

Power supply is M4-ATX which work good. Soundcard is Claro Halo XT

Dejan summed it up very nicely- I am not near my car now, but I believe that is how my system is setup.

Double check that you have Redone the connections after swiching over to the different audio driver.

**summer69guy** · 10-07-2009, 05:19 PM

but there is now way to bypass VAC?

**soundman98** · 10-07-2009, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by summer69guy

but there is now way to bypass VAC?

Like I said, I am not near my car, but I believe that I am not using vac or a4all at all right now-- I have setup my onboard audio as the primary audio output in windows, and than set it up in audio mulch as the input.

**summer69guy** · 10-07-2009, 05:40 PM

ok ok i understand :Pthanks....so you see an improvement between onboard audio driver vs vac?

**soundman98** · 10-07-2009, 05:59 PM

Technically, I am grabbing the audio signal from the onboard audio driver, and then using audio mulch to distribute, and process the signal, and then send it to my external audio card.

So far, I really like it this way! No worries about buffer issues, or different programs trying to resample the entire audio stream, or compatibility between programs.

So far, it took only 5 min to setup, and I have had zero issues with it.

For other audio mulch users: in console, you can adjust the output level of a certain 'wire' by right clicking on the wire- is there a similar option in audio mulch anywhere?

**summer69guy** · 10-07-2009, 06:00 PM

isuus like poping etc....but you didnt se any diference in sound quality?

**soundman98** · 10-07-2009, 06:14 PM

So far, I have not had any audio quality issues at all.

I really think that there was just too many programs messing with the audio signal- like having 1 small cake in a classroom full of hungry fat kids...

**summer69guy** · 10-07-2009, 06:16 PM

ok , but i am not talking about issus...i wonder if you had any sound improvement like this :P....like the sound is clearer...deeper....more easy to locate instruments...etc....for me those are not issues...just more sq than before

**soundman98** · 10-07-2009, 06:26 PM

Quality wise, it did not change any of it- but I have recently added some jl audio cl-rlc pre amp volume controls that have drastically made everything better