Re: 5.1 Sound
Originally posted by Metatron
I am just wondering.....you see I have a PeeCee and a iBook. I use my iBook for all my everything but gaming. It is no to good at that anyways only having 8mb of video ram. But what keeps me from going to a PowerMac is the fact that there is no 5.1 sound cards for apple. I lover surround sound on games....it just bring the realism of the game out. And apple is starting to show some high end games. Does anyone know of a way to get 5.1 for dvds and EAX for games on a mac without having to buy a ton of extra, expensive equipment???????
In the future, all Mac audio out will be thru USB/Firewire. Currently there are several 2 in/6 out usb interfaces. When apple settles everthing with coreaudio/midi which will applear in Jaguar. Check out Emagic.de which Apple just bought. they make one such USB interface.
So do you have a room dedicate to your PC/iBook? How are you planning to set up your 5.1 speaker system? Think abt it. everythink in the room has an effect on the sound, you bed, you dresser, whether or not you closet door is open.
my RANT
I have several years training in audio engineering. Sometimes i feel that it is such a waste when engineers spend soo much time adjusting sounds between two speakers. We set up speakers in a equilateral trianglewith us. If you work in protools or other audio programs, and use good speakers, any thing panned to the middle sounds like it is coming out of your CPU monitor, not the speakers. Increadible sounding, especially from 3000 dollar speakers.
But then the listeners play the cd thru a 100 dollar boombox with the speakers 18 inches apart. This defeats the idea of "stereo." But what the hell, its just abt the music anyway.
go to a high end electronics store, listen to there 5.1 surround. Home theater brings on a whole new meaning. 300 dollar or less 5.1 speakers aren't any better than 500 dollar "stereo" speakers. I don't mean to spoil your ideas, just be realistic. There are many people in the world making 100,000 dollars a year, their job, designing rooms that sound good.
Just be realistic abt how much more 5.1 will get you. Stereo speakers and a subwoffer are just as good in a home/office environment.
Anyway, we will have 5.1 very soon, coreaudio already supports it, they are just putting the finishing touches on it.
Szia