USB Audigy2 NX Standby resume issue - Page 2

shakes · 02-10-2004, 05:37 PM

indeed ... extigy is looking better the more i read. easy to power, and I can get it and a clarion EQ for the price of the audigy

00CericaRuss · 02-10-2004, 05:53 PM

well.. the audigy works pretty well for me, other than the volume issue...
i power it off my opus w/5v ... requirements... don't know off the top of my head

sound quality blows the pants off the epia m9000 onboard sound
it's also way smaller than an extigy... i don't think i could find somewhere to mount an extigy in my car even.

Pudge · 02-10-2004, 06:01 PM

Yea, I'm sure it's way better than onboard, but I've just heard it's choppy and horrible on resources

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but people around here aren't having too much touble

Alric · 02-10-2004, 06:02 PM

Or an M-audio Sonica Theater. It is bus-powered, allows you to control individual channel levels, and has adjustable built-in crossovers. I have been using it for a week now with excellent results.

If you have enough CPU power it has Circle surrounds which is much better than PLII, IMHO.

Cheers,

spectrrr · 02-11-2004, 12:44 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Alric

If you have enough CPU power it has Circle surrounds which is much better than PLII, IMHO.

Cheers,

excuse the ignorance on that last bit, but ahhh...whats that?

Quote: Originally Posted by Alric

Or an M-audio Sonica Theater. It is bus-powered, allows you to control individual channel levels, and has adjustable built-in crossovers.

what would you recomend (from a purely functional viewpoint, not counting space in).... using the sonic leveling, or an external EQ?

Alric · 02-11-2004, 01:05 AM

Circle surround is yet another flavor of multichannel sound like ProLogic or ProLogic too. To my ears it sounded better than PLII and to others as well. Of course this is all subjective.

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what would you recomend (from a purely functional viewpoint, not counting space in).... using the sonic leveling, or an external EQ?

I've never compared both since I don't own an external EQ. However, I do like being able to control everything at the LCD.

Cheers,

phc · 02-11-2004, 01:35 AM

I'm also getting the 100% volume out of hibernation (don't use standy) with my Audigy NX - did you ever get a fix for it?

-Patrick

shakes · 02-11-2004, 07:54 AM

just got an extigy off ebay for $64 shipped. from a seller with 0 feedback so i've got my fingers crossed

i'll more than likely be using an EQ to split up the signal so i'm not too concerned with surround. just need clean audio to the eq

00CericaRuss · 02-11-2004, 08:00 PM

i have a little app that sets the volume to 0... not sure if it'll work w/hibernate though since looks for standby calls.

it appears as if the volume hits 100% right before standby which makes it even worse

ÐuTcH · 06-22-2004, 06:12 PM

any chance the script cant be re-written to detect the volume level every few mins or so, then to resume to that once out of standby/hib, just a thought?

rando · 07-28-2004, 09:11 AM

@00CR, dunno if you ever got that app working or not but here is something I discovered. My audigy also goes to 100% master volume out of resume (hibernation or standby). The other volume sliders however remain at their settings (line in, wave, etc). What I do now is just leave the master at 100% and use the other sliders to control the volume of my source. Frodoplayer supports this capability already and shouldn't be too hard to get the other front ends or your own code to do the same.

As far as writing an app to detect resume from hibernation, I checked into it briefly but couldn't find a system event to detect it. I found events for some of the other power management events, but not hibernate. Anyone know how this can be done (i.e. which system call, library, service, or other can be used to detect hibernation and/or resume from hibernation)?

InFix · 07-28-2004, 09:25 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by 00CericaRuss

i have a little app that sets the volume to 0... not sure if it'll work w/hibernate though since looks for standby calls.

it appears as if the volume hits 100% right before standby which makes it even worse

Hey man, source code for that app would be great. Can you see if your friend will give that up? I could really use some of that code for my own projects...

00CericaRuss · 07-28-2004, 01:09 PM

holy old thread batman!
umm.. yeah... i ended up switching to a pci audigy card, and the sq is actually much better IMO.

but let me dig up that app real quick
this is c# btw
throw these in the same project in vs.net

rando · 07-30-2004, 01:46 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by 00CericaRuss

holy old thread batman!
umm.. yeah... i ended up switching to a pci audigy card, and the sq is actually much better IMO.

but let me dig up that app real quick
this is c# btw
throw these in the same project in vs.net

Yep, that's the same events I found and from what I could tell, they don't fire upon resume from hibernation (only standby). Thanks for the code though.

00CericaRuss · 08-02-2004, 01:51 PM

no prob... i actually noticed that the volume goes to 100% after the event resume event is triggered...

my solution... ditch the NX and use a riser card w/a pci geforce and pci audigy1 (i'm not even using the livedrive)