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RE: Glad I could help spoil your evening.

Posted by Dawnrazor (A) on May 29, 2008 at 21:29:34

In Reply to: RE: Glad I could help spoil your evening. posted by JBen on May 29, 2008 at 16:58:04:

Hey,

I so wished you were right about running the 0404USB and the Realtek side by side! No luck finding a way to make it happen and E-MU/Creative say it can't happen (in Windows, for now). But, hey, who knows!

Ok I know this works as I have done it on 2 different machines.

Enable BOTH cards, but set your Realtek as the DEFAULT. In the exapmle below, I have enabled my onboard Realtex and set it as the default.

Here is shown that the M-audio is still installed as is the Realtex, but the M-audio is not the default. YOu would do the same with the EMU.

Then, in Foobar set the output to asio and select the Emu driver....in this example, I have selected the M-audio driver:

So, ONLY Foobar can talk to the EMU. Everything else outputs to the Realtex.

It has been a while, but I thought that is what you wanted to happen.

Just got some 20ft of rubber vacuum hose at an auto parts to see if I can fit 2 strands (one terminal set) of magwire through. I may not be able to do much until Sunday. Wavelab I may be able to squeeze in for a quick and dirty comparo...then later do more testing.

Yikes. Rubber is a horrible material to use. I once used the greyish rubber screen track for holding wires, and used the round grommet strips for interconnects...this sounds terrible. Try it, but I never liked it. As bad as PVC is (and it really isnt that bad) rubber is terrible. If PVC is a 7, rubber is like a 2 or 3.

BTW, one strand of 26GA magwire measures at just 1db less SP than the MonsterXP. Remarkable! (white and pink noise 8ft from center of both speakers, C weighted). Wow, I hadn't even thought of measuring that. Glad you did, and I am a bit surprised that it is such a slight loss as to be negligible! That is cool.

Lastly, the image-shifting reported before still happens. However, it may be that it comes with the recordings (or equipment) and the magwire is showing more of it. At least one recording behaves that way with both cables. In that particular case magwire makes it more evident. Ahhh, the hardships of improved accuracy! I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE TRANSISTOR RADIO!!!!not

Interesting. I have not had that shifting, but what you say makes sense if it happens in both. The Magwire is definitely revealing. I sold a pair I had made to a guy and a while later, he was blaming the magwire for a "hiss" or some thing that he was hearing since he bought the magwire. He thought that since it wasn't shielded that it was picking up some stuff. But he liked the overall sound so much that he still kept the wire in the system. Anyhow, a few years pass and I get a call. He had sold his Krell integrated, and the sound was gone. The magwire was just revealing a problem with the krell.

It can be a doubled edge sword, but for the money it is really hard to beat.

Even some one as crazy as me can hear that!

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