RE: [ukha_d] kx drivers & sound card recommendations

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,
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I use a couple of old 5.1 soundblaster cards in an old PIII 500 with
Xlobby=
and it runs fine
although I'm only actually using two zones at the moment. I would
recommend=
that you
use the foobar plugin rather than winamp, as I found it put a lot less
load=
on the system.
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Oh, and I seem to remember that when you install the KxProject drivers you
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then have to=20
actually go into the DSP section and "wire" up the channels in
order to get=
then to work
as separate sound cards..
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Marcus
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-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of =
Tim Hawes
Sent: 10 July 2006 21:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] kx drivers & sound card recommendations
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I know a few of you use the kx project drivers with Creative sound cards t=
o
get multi-zone outputs for whole house audio systems. What specific sound
cards do you use, and where did you buy them?
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I've only got 2 PCI slots in the machine I've earmarked as the music serve=
r
so I really need 7.1 channel cards to get the most zones per slot. From th=
e
kx driver compatibility list I think this leaves me the Audigy 2 ZS or
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum cards. Does anyone already use these cards? Any
comments on how they work with the kx drivers and Xlobby?
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eBay lists a stack of Audigy 2 ZS cards, mostly from the same seller, used=
,
and starting at =A31 with a "free" game included. I quite like
idea of the
in-built firewire port - presumably this appears as a normal port and I
could plug in an external hard drive etc.?
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All comments welcome.
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Thanks,
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Tim.
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