Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
If I helped one person I feel I didn't waste my time. I'm starting to get E-Mails that the better hardware on the Prelude is helping. Hey Creative are you listening?

When X-Fi has been board line with users getting SCP some times or intermediately they didn't get any at all with Prelude, this is a good thing. The other guy on the other thread found out his problem was his Web Cam with MIC built-in. Also, Thank you!

The worse case of SCP I saw had the user hearing it with any sound. This included the Windows start up sound.
In my case, I can honestly say that it was the Prelude that solved my problems. If I had my master volume set even at 50% on the XtremeMusic, I would get crackling in any sound including windows sounds . I've tried updating drivers, reinstalling drivers, removing components, changing PCI Latency, overclocking PCI bus......everything I did would not solve this issue. My only workaround that I figured that help me was lowering my Wav volume to 50%, and Master Volume to about 35% on my XtremeMusic. I've kept the same exact configuration while switching to Prelude and I am completely SCP free.

A big YMMV on the whole issue. They say that Creatives manufacturing varies so much on the components they use (while keeping the X-Fi chip the same) and I don't doubt it. I am just glad I am running crackle free while enjoying all the audio improvements the Prelude has