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  • Home audio - mid-high range computer related solutions

    Part 2


    It might looks that both setups are verry different, actually they sound close to each other. Frankly the double more power of the Sony setup ( 2x100W limited of amplifier channels ) makes no big difference except when its used near to its max capacity, gives more physical sensation and a bit more dB. Sound characteristics are similar, actually Creative's subwoofer have a bit of advantage reproducing deeper bass. For some reason i expected a bit more of this Sony setup.


    Sony SS-MF550H flor-standing speakers feature one 8 inch HOP Cone bass drive, lots of space inside and they are wooden. There is extra hole for a deeper bass. In audio, size DOES matters :D There is also 3.25 inch mid-range and 1 inch tweeter. Speaker is coved by transparent protector. Mid-range and high-range reproduction is good, no gaps. Bass aint strong by default but can be boosted through the amplifier with bass-bosty option and equilizer. It then reach good, deep and strong bass with distortion only in peaks of the amplifier. Amplifier allows you to mount two more speakers and extra 200W in total. Extra power catch up for the lack of surround sensation. Setup is good for music, movies and games.



    Whats for the Creative?! With its 92W RMS total is about twice lower than the sony. Subwoofer is wooden and bigger than most around. Its featuring 6.5 inch long-trow driver verry well hidden behind the protector. Its just impossible to see through it. Driver is looking on side left and all connectors are at the back. Keep in mind that thios is hell alot of cables - 7 satelites, wired remoute control, power cord, 3x 3.5mm jack to 4x 3.5mm jack and hardware upmix control (5.1->7.1; 6.1->7.1;DIRECT). Infront you will see big dual-flared port which is actually "tube-in-the-tube" going deep inside. Front satelites and center have a tweeter which provides good high-range reproducing. All 7 satelites have about 3 inch wide range driver which do well all long to the max capacity. Bass is deeper than the sony setup but it gets more distorption at pick power. While the sony's amplifier has remoute control, Creative T7900 use wired remoute control by default with overall volume control and subwoofer volume control with headphones and line-in 3.5mm ports. You can get a real remoute control and a wired module with light indicators too (Creative I200). Here is the place to note that sound card has big role thanks to upmix, CMSS-3D (simulates surround incredibly well), Crystalizer (clearing all channels) and good Signal-to-Noise ratio). Something that not much ppl knows is Creative X-Fi use three DSP processors (Digital Signal Processing) that not much companies has. This gives lots of calculation power and dynamic channel processing.


  • Home audio - mid-high range computer related solutions

    In this article i'll show you two representatives of two common ways to replace Hi-Fi systems. I had access to both of them.



    Part 1



    First representative is combined Hi-Fi components from Sony. Its really good option to assemble your own Hi-Fi system with components you like. Its featuring


    1) 2x 3 Way, 3 Driver Floor-Standing Speaker SS-MF550H


    1" Nano-Fine® Balanced Dome Tweeter
    150W Maximum Input Power
    Frequency Range 45Hz - 50kHz
    Screw Type Binding Posts
    3 Way, 3 Driver Floor-Standing Speaker
    8" Improved H.O.P. Cone - Bass Driver
    3 1/4" Improved H.O.P. Cone - Mid Driver
    Sensitivity - 88 dB
    Dimensions: Approx. 9.5" x 33.4" x 10" (240 x 850 x 255 mm)




    2) Sony A/V Receiver STR-DE197 (amplifier)



    - Frequency Range - 40Hz - 20kHz, THD 0.09%
    - two stereo channels; can work seperated; each 2x 100W
    - manual equilizer
    - tuner




    3) Chaintech ENVY 24PT sound card



    PCI 2.2 I/F with bus mastering and burst modes
    24-bit resolution audio format support
    Sampling rates up to 192KHz
    Supports Mic In / Line In / 4 Line outs & Digital Optical output
    2 separate CD audio stereo inputs





    Second representative is from Creative:


    1) Creative Inspire T7900


    Speaker Power: 8 Watts RMS per channel (6 channels),
    ----------------- 20 Watts RMS center speaker,
    ----------------- 24 Watts RMS subwoofer
    Frequency Response: 40Hz ~ 20kHz
    Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR): 80dB
    Satellite Speaker: 9.5cm x 7.7cm x 14cm
    Satellite Speaker (with tweeter): 9.5cm x 7.7cm x 16.8cm
    Center Satellite Speaker: 16.8cm x 7.7cm x 12.0cm
    Subwoofer: 19.2cm x 30.0cm x 28.3cm
    Wired Remote Control: 8.2cm x 4.0cm x 2.1cm


    + custom made ~80cm high stands for most of the satelites





    2) Sound Blaster Creative XtremeMusic


    - gold plated


    Technical Specs
    24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs: 96kHz sampling rate
    24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources: 96khz to analog 7.1 speaker output
    24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources: 192kHz to stereo output
    16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
    ASIO 2.0 support: 16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz, 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz with direct monitoring
    Enhanced SoundFont support: Up to 24-bit resolution
    Audio Performance (Rated Output @ 2Vrms, Typical Value)
    Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted): Stereo Output: 109dB
    Front and Rear Channels: 109dB
    Center, Subwoofer and Side Channels: 109dB
    Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pass filter): 0.004%
    Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ): <10Hz to 46kHz
    Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/192kHz input): <10Hz to 88kHz (Stereo only)



  • RL need for speed

    Oh you mean those cops here:


    Playing Hide and Seek with the Police



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    They seems to be racing too [11]

  • RL need for speed

    Accidently found those videos with exotic cars i hope you like them too


    Video 1: Carrera GT gone wild !



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    Video 2: Best of Gumball 2004


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    Video 3: Racing from Taormina to Rome



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    Video 4: Racing through Italia chasing a F430



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    Video 5: Gumball going to Barcelona



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    Its verry likely videos been captured from Porsche 911 (996/997) GT3

  • LR Design

    Quote

    Originally posted by SWAT_OP-R8R
    that means? good? bad?



    means bad, maybe red goes better with a bit darker color (dark blue/green/orange and so on). Maybe dark blue like the menu/leters.

  • Windows Vista Launch Today

    Got this today:




    Ireally hope they would fix the bug reported by the ppl (me included). What i send them was a bug with FL that really make game shutten often :(

  • Just post funny pics

    Not funny pic but one of my favourite stuff :D (shows with IE if you have a problem)



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  • Server Down

    I dont want to speak before OP does, but its cause of a technical problem, its not cause of the update. So it might take lot of time before launcher can get to the files needed to start MP.

  • CF will not work

    Ok here how i usually fix this. Cant give specific route cause i dotn have FLMM installed right now but will be close enough.


    1) Reinstall evrythign just like ppl told you above BUT before try to activate the mod for a first time do the following below
    2) go to Start Menu -> Run
    3) type regedit there and press Ok - a Registry Editior will open
    4) go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Freelancer Mod Manager (or whatever is the exact name but you will see it)
    5) when you select the FLMM folder there (in the Registry Editor there shoudl be a registry key saying Read Only or sort of which. When you click twice on it it will open to change value. By default value should be 1. Change it to 0 and press Ok.
    6) look another for key which value says the name of activated mod like "Mods\Crossfire" - delete the key if exist
    7) start FLMM and try to activate

  • Windows Vista Launch Today

    In common you're right, but there is somethign else that atm there is not much attentioned paid for it.



    Vista might not be that interesting on first sight but Vista works with the HDD and RAM in different way. What is more important is the x64 version. It wont be that popular in the beggining but there is already lots of 64bit native software, several other projects will be finished soon like 64bit Microsoft Office/OpenOffice and games like UT 2007 (also known as UT 3), Crysis's engine, more proffesional programs. Vista x64 itself now much closer to native x64 OS than XP x64 where still some windows processes stays as 32bit. Lots of manufactures already have 2GB single ram module - if you place two of those in your system you're screwed with 32bit windows. Some of you sooner or later gonna get a new graphic card, and all graphic cards for next several years ill be DX10. You wont see DX10 for windows XP so dont even wait for it. You think that new interface (Aero) cause the big memory usage but its not true. Aero itself tooks about 3.5MB of Vista instalation. When there is more stuff loaded in the RAM means less HDD usage and as you all know RAM is much faster than the HDD.


    There are alot limitations already in 32bit way of working. There is reason why developrs push it to the next level.



    There are lots of things changed there. In the beggining most ppl wont like them but what happend with XP? Did ppl like it in the beggining.

  • Windows Vista Launch Today

    Microsoft launched next version of NT family called Windows Vista. There are lots of Editions that you cancheck over here. For a first time Microsoft launch x64 (64-bit) version together with the x86 (32-bit) one. If buy one of the x86 Editions you automatically get licence for x64 version.



    Lots of drivers for Vista launch today too.