Quote Originally Posted by PCVSNotebook View Post
I dont need to be a sound Engineer to judge . My ears tell me .. let your ears be the judge , dont go into much technical explanations every where .. when it comes to sound quality , your ears are the judge.

I know you are using Mac now and Cant test it . but if you test High end Sound cards today VS onboard sound ,you will hear the difference.

some High end motherboards started adding 118DB SNR and 600ohms amplifier and shielding to their onboard sound chip , even gold plated i/o as well , like the Sniper motherboard from Gigabyte and the supreme FX from Asus but those are $300+ motherboards .
There is no difference. We are talking about video games. The soundtracks are 256Kbps VBR on a good day. The sound effects are just sound effects. The sound of a sniper rifle isn't going to sound any different.

It's a wonder that Creative is still making sound cards. A of SNR 124dB is pretty irrelevant as a statistics. The Sound Blaster brand is a joke designed to sell a dead product to chumps. For a while it still made sense after the dedicated sound card was made redundant, because the I/O was still useful… but now there are better I/O solutions as well. Almost all I/O has gone external. They started putting things like an amp on the sound card because they had to find someway to continue to sell a 5 year old worthless product.