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Old 05-11-07, 05:12 AM   #1 (Link)
 
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Lets try this soundcard cal thing again.


Hi

I hate to bring this up again but something is still broken.

I'm not complaining because it is almost certainly something I am doing wrong.

I have just checked my soundcard calibration yet again after seeing the parallel thread.

I have been through the USB SB C Live! controls dozens of times and everything is set to default (no effects, no monitoring, no nothing)

I have tried default, wave, C-media etc. Now I'm using the default "emulated SB Live 24 bit" option. Sampling rate 48kHz.

I have tried all the input and output options without any improvement.

Here I'm using Line in and Front Speakers (out) sockets.

My cables are phono coax with solid RCA/jack adaptors. Only one side of the cable is being used.

The surround console is set to 2/2.1 and Line in. It looks exactly like the help files.

I cancelled the soundcard cal and meter cal files and have the following to show for it:

20 meters of cables:



I thought that awful result may have been my long test cables. So I tried a two foot long cable:



I have about 5dB of headroom during the final test sweep after manually adjusting levels to avoid earlier clipping.

Computer AMD 1600+ XPSP2 with auto updates set.

Help!


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