Or so it happened to me (absolute Music and sound - Laie) when I heard the first time sounds from this Sound Blaster Z.
First I had the P8P67 Rev.3.1 mainboard and used like many others onboard sound chip. Why do I now actually bought the Sound Blaster Z, I can not answer that directly. Maybe just to find out what is on the whole great test it.
After installation, the installation of all drivers and setting up my 5.1 system it was the first in Battlefield. 3
"Overwhelmed" Is it true: The difference in quality of Sourrounds from this SoundBlaster compared with the onboard solution is similar as when I switched from my tube TV to a flat screen FullHD. After 10 minutes was inexplicable to me how I could ever act with an onboard sound card.
Clear, ambient sound have both, but the Sound Blaster separates the channels razor sharp. Jet fly-bys, Helis, whistling bullets are precisely localized. Volume differences, etc. It designed to hard to describe the difference.
Next, we went to Spotify: high quality music somehow seems now quite different. I always thought my Logitech 5.1 system creates on the PC just nothing better and therefore listened to music in the living room to my rather large Yamaha conditioning. Misses: What brings out the Sound Blaster out of my loudspeakers incredible.
Conclusion: Sound Technically, I am a layman. Had I known how much better listen to sound effects when using only a qualitative sound card, I would have never pulled an onboard solution into consideration.
