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I've lost a lot of interest in AA and don't want to put any more time into it. But, at the same time, I don't want to see it die.

Yeah, me too . I guess it's because AA2 is the game I have played more since ever, and the only true online game I played for too many years, and back then it was every days playing AA for long hours .

Now I kinda play AA and get tired soon, haven't played it for a while now.

Taking that out, I just wanna Thank All the good folks who helped AA25assist, and I really didn't wanted to see it die so soon again :'(. Hope someone can continue this good work (Thank You Pit-23).

ps: Thank you Johny! for making me remember the good old times! (I hope you have a good life there mate)

BTW: I just finally bought BF3 today hehe, for 32€, and could have bought it for 16€ 8). (Taking AA2 out, BF2 was also the only game I played online for long, but not as much as AA of course). Damn I have thousands and thousands of hours On AA since 2003, so much good conversations I had on the AA2 chat with the company of Microsoft SAM (Now I have ANNA which pisses me off. SCREW U M$);D.
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LOL whateva dog...

Anyway wi-fi is wi-fi, dirty power is dirty power. On dirty power the bigger the bass the bigger the quality... In fact you can even trow away all the speakers and tweeters and use only subwoofers making bass with no sound, and Most will be happy with it and going crazy like YEAAAAHHHH the windows gonna break

About the in-earphones from schneider, they really have better quality than the Philips I had (In terms of hi-fidelity and overall quality), but I still preferred the philips in-ear phones, cause they really had the biggest bass I ever heard on little phones (Tried lot's and lot's of them from friends, and I had lot's too), they really make the bass like a subwoofer, but they were expensive too back then (now they'r screwed).

On my MP3 I use 3D BASS effect, it's way better than the normal, but the quality is pretty bad, because this mp3 is pure garbage, but I always wanted the creative X-FI, I bet in there we could use the 3D BASS effects pretty well with their X-FI chip, without having glitches\artifacts in the music like my cheap mp3...
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I only like the last DAC, but that's already something for heavy duty. The little and cheap one, doesn't look much good (I really liked the hardware of the best DAC).

get the headphones I got
http://headphones.com.au/psingle?productID=178
they cradle the balls and come in sporty purple

If I would go buy some expensive headphones, I think I would buy from Schneider.

I really like the schneider in-ear phones I bought. It's not even the quality of it, it's even more the high efficiency. I had some in-hear phones from Philips that cost around 40€, they really sounded like a subwoofer. But the volume was pretty low, specially in my crappy MP3.

With the Schneider in fact I use my mp3 at 1\30 of volume (1 of 30) and for me it's at a good volume, and it's pretty impressive, since the mp3 is really very low on volume and crappy quality (It's not enough for my taste  ), but the hearphones really have some crazy efficiency, they are pretty damn low on just 1 bar of volume and the mp3 goes to 30, and they still do pretty good bass (Though I preferred the old expensive philips I had that had higher bass, but their efficiency was pretty bad, had to hear on 8 volume to be almost the same as shneider on 1 or 2).
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I don't really know about that, but there's also some PCIexpress HDD's, which aren't either SATAIII, or USB3, and they made it claiming that only the PCI express can have the fastest hardware connection directly o the motherboard. That's what some OCZ said from their 1000$ PCI EXPRESS 1TB HDD, but still I don't think it has much to do with the latency from the transfer of the SSD to the Motherboard, I believe it's only because of their bandwidth of 1GB\s of Data transfer, but still they do claim it's also the fastest way to connect to the hardware...

And yeah USB like I though is way slower on latency:

A single USB transaction takes at least 125 microseconds, and empirically usually consumes 250 microseconds, even in Linux. 125 microseconds is significant in computer-based systems, especially in the embedded world where human input is often a smaller portion of the system’s total operation. This means USB takes longer to issue control events, like setting up a mode of operation, or polling for a status change.

PCIe, on the other hand, can complete a single transaction in anywhere from a fraction of a microsecond to around two microseconds, depending on the system architecture. This low latency allows more control requests to be issued, or better timing to be achieved even when using relatively few requests. The difference in latency effectively means USB is less “real-time” than PCI Express. Many applications don’t need microsecond latencies, but only PCIe can deliver it when necessary.

A single FPGA-based PCI Express design may have three to five times the parts cost for the bus interface alone—completely excluding your circuitry! When you factor in the increased PCB, assembly, and test costs, PCIe is truly an expensive proposition compared to USB. Even if you use a COTS PCIe-to-local bus bridge chip instead of FPGAs (greatly reducing your device’s flexibility), design and parts costs exceeds USB by a significant margin.

Score one for USB for being easier and less expensive to design, and for its lower parts cost throughout.

That's why I would still go to a good gaming sound card. That's also why PC gaming designed cards are expensive too, but they do quite have very low latency and already big outputs, but the best is really their processor (which sadly is not much used lately with the gay OpenAL... Bloody Realtek and other craps can only be paying to have them, but they'r outputs are pretty ugly, that's a thing they never change in their 1€ crappy sound cards)...

How much is the cheapest little usb DAC powered by USB? (just need stereo). If there's one with better portability than the creative (little usb kind with X-FI), and if it costs the same, which is around 30 bucks, I wouldn't mind buying.
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You're a total fucktard. USB 2 is more than enough for 24/192 which is more than most people need. USB 1 will cap at 24/48 I believe.

Whatever dog...

I don't like USB cards...

And also I wasen't even talking on it's full 400mbs bandwidth.

I'm talking that you won't get any better connection in a PC other than PCIexpress specially for having the lowes latency possible between all the hardware.

And also I don't know if there's any good USB soundcard that produces really a good quality sound and with high SNR of around 120db and with big impedance for who likes to use some good headphones... (don't really have any clue on that, cause I never cared for USB audio cards, and never searched 4 them).

I'm also going to buy a USB cheap sound card for my laptop, but it's only for the laptop cause my bro broke a 3.5mm sound jack inside, I drilled it and it screwed the output, it only outputs sound to one side of the headphones... >
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Yep, I would never buy them too, but it's just to prove that there are some pretty good systems with the classical line of the high fidelity.


But about this thread, no matter what amp you will use in ur computer, one made for computer or connecting cables and more cables to an heavy Hi-fi system (old or modern)... You will still be needing a good sound card 4 it.


So if the hardware outputs of any normal onboard soundcard like realtek are really the most big garbage you can get, no matter how good the amplifier you will use can be, it will amplify a very crappy sound signal. So I do recommend a PCIexpress card like the new best creative card, or a good auzentech, or an Asus xonar, or any other good sound card, they are really a must if your a pc gamer sound lover, specially for use in a good heaphones.

Pc sound-cards are pc sound-cards, you can't just go there and solder a studio huge hardware in the pc to make it work as a sound card...
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Actually I say 1+1=2 and you come saying I said 1+1=4? Get ur facts...

I said logitech have no fidelity. But they are actually pretty damn good at quality vs price, actually in all reviews they got 9\10, 8\10, 4.5\5... specially because they offer a lot for a very cheap price. No one said they were top of the line, they are just one of the best gaming home cinema all in one, specially because it's just plug and play...

They aren't mean for you to become a DJ using them or that kind of shit, but they actually will be enough for like 8\10 people that have them...


And actually you all are the ones who said we have no built quality nowadays, none of the companies make them like they used to anymore, that's wrong, since there are lot of expensive speakers, which are hand built, metal made on Porche factory, best parts made in all the best factories and most have really been manufactured... And each of them are really tested to ensure all really have the right fidelity for their standards.


And then comparing normal old magnets to permanent magnets, use of less copper to use of lot's of copper and gold... Use of digital systems with the minimum distortion possible ever made with the 80's analogic systems and so one.... Comparing low efficiency with high efficiency which doesn't even waste energy heating, all on sound...

Use of advanced membranes materials made from fibers to titanium compared to the old materials used in the 80's, which all the cheap ones from that time are all made of something that looks like paper (I'm not talking about the true Hi-fi systems, I'm talking about just crappy coils for other usage, most were made of something that looks like paper, I have lot's of them around).

Also comparing every kind of new inventors that designed special custom case designs that even make the same coil to produce even better sounds... to an era that didn't had much evolution as nowadays and didn't had all those new crazy internal designs that nowadays at each day it comes a new better and improved design.


ps: Everything improved no matter if you like it or not. Nowadays u have all kind of systems for all ur "audiophile" hears, with the most frequency range ever created by humanity... And that's it. Lower budget systems is what we want nowadays, and will even be more used in the future with this crisis, the cheaper a thing is, the more ppl go behind them (I'm one of them)...
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Finally we'r making some sense 8). But about the prices, actually at least here where I live, A good sound system from the 80's would probably have cost you the price of a few months of work (on the minimum salary), so it's not much difference.

The good thing is nowadays you get systems with good sound quality for dirty cheap.

And no, I know my logitech aren't anything you can really trust for an audiophile . BUT, haven't seen so much offer for such a low price. Even the best from creative which is slightly better cost like 500€ and have no digital plugs, you have to pay extra 150 or more for the decoder. Logitech Z5500 is really 505w RMS not that bad quality, at least mine doesn't make such crappy distortions, have a big rumble, and the best is they already have digital sound for 250€ (which is near the price of just one single medium fidelity speaker).

I already had\have 18.5 speakers (18 satellites and 5 subwoofers). 2x5.1 + 4x 2.1. And I do believe I had one more 2.1 which I'm not even remembering...

Speaking of multiple subs, one time I came across someone whose intelligence vs. wealth were inversely proportional. He had 2 12inch subs in a room and claimed that when he had 1 12inch a few years ago it was better. Even told me that one sub from his new ones were more expensive than his old one. I wanted to punch the guy in the mouth so hard. I moved the subs around and made him eat his tears after I told him don't face the subs together ya cunt.

I understand that pretty well. Most of us won't have a good place to have the speakers.

I remember one crappy 2.1 from creative which are the standards for (low-mid bidget of 50€) which are the standards as 2x6w + 17w subwoofer if I'm not mistaking. Here in my little full of things bedroom, they aren't anything impressive. But when I used them in a huge empty room full of metal and glass on the sides damnnnnnnn.

That crap sounded like I had a million dollars system for real lol, 17 w never sounded so much powerfull with all the probably 30 huge thin glasses shaking all over the place. All I could say is wtf, it was so damn loud. (the fidelity was million of years away, but it sounded powerful, and that makes me a happy customer ;D).

But the quality in my room DAMN, it's the worst you can get, even the Z5500 have trouble to make it rumble, but when I put it on the living room, it get's dangerous as everything starts shaking and falling down and whateva 

Yeah that sound system was insane, but you listen to hip hop and no music that requires quality, so you have a perfect system for your needs.

Totally agree. But still I have heard some good high fidelity modern systems in a proper room, they are like crystal, but are they good? (Hell they have a lot of quality, but I wouldn't buy them even if they were cheap).

And why would I not buy them? Well because my dream is a total different thing. Instead of having full range, I would prefer having lot's of different good drivers each producing a certain frequency, with a HUGE woofer for the bick kicks and punches, and a even bigger subwoofer for the rumbles, and EVEN with the addition of a rotary sub to get the lowest frequency ever possible.

And I even prefer John Lennon on a non high fidelity system, it sound so much more powerful with the subwoofer on the back making all the "chords" (don't know if that's the word) to a all new level.

Also even most modern good quality Hi-fi with the best wood, all hand built, freakin new designs from other planet... even them are adding subwoofers and other type of things which are totally against the original Hi fidelity.

But you have to agree that the so called Hi fidelity term just simply changed it's concept, as there are newer ones distortions free with less input lag and all kind of things which also sound different than the original concept, in my opinion they sound better. (But one thing that almost never changed are the studio sound systems, they are at it's best, and still try to be all range speakers). Therefore Hi-fidelity term doesn't totally exists, and it's a term wich is in a constant changing.

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Oh and actually my father is just like you, he has ton's of vinyls from all the old bands, he specially loves john Lennon, Vivaldi, composers, Beatles...., and actually my father kinda stolen my X-mini II  >. He loved the quality of the little speaker and got so impressed by how such small crap can sound so damn good. He never hear music on the laptop speakers anymore.

And he actually prefer when I'm playing Nirvana or John Lennon... in my 9.3 system connected to the pc than the old good amplifiers and speakers from the 80's. Hell he even always tell me to increase the volume to make the windows to do the sound of the music   And he really had a nice sound system that me and my bro kinda destroyed  .

ps: Damn If I had millions you can bet I would make my dream true (having lot's of speakers, each playing only a certain frequency)  .

>>I know it's too much blahblahblah, but I do believe you will like to read :-X<<
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