Quote Originally Posted by skinnee View Post
Ahh, dilemmas! One of these days I need to send you a card for some serious modding action. Prelude still kicks all the others, even though its PCI eh?



Taking a bit longer than I expected...as usual. I am getting some numbers that are slightly different than I expected, so I want to retest one or all from the first round to verify my results. Just want to be sure. However, I need to get cracking on these i7 CPU blocks though, I think I can see the torches and pitchforks in the distance.

I'm 23 skidoo for tonight, take care mate.

I would love to mod a card for you! Most of my mods are for a analog improvement, unless you want a crystal clock mod (reduce jitter), but they can get really pricey and are really easy to do (basic desolder/resolder, one component). It is removing 4 or more OpAmps and replacing them and looking like a robot did it that is hard.

You can also spend a mint on recapping as so on, so the sky is the limit.

The main reason I would like to keep the prelude in my rig is that it fully hardware supports EAX 5 and still has fantastic sound and stunning quality of its components. I really do like the Xonar but like most sound cards the drivers leave much to be desired. I can forgive Asus as they are fairly new, whereas Creative needs a beating and there inlies the thing that I dont like about the Prelude. The dont have their own drivers and rely on Creative for that... so, what does a guy do

I for one will never pull out the pitchforks on you, unless the Couplex DI is not in your i7 round-up

Just kidding m8. I am sure I speak for many when I say I am gratious for all your hard work. Many thanks

I am out too.

Ttyall l8r