Creative Inspire P580 Speakers :d


Steve-O

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I just got my P580's and they kick ass :D

£39.99 with Free Postage was a excellent price.

How to I configure WinXP to use the 5.1 ? Like when I get a Error message Is there a Way that I can get it to go through all the speakers?

Thanks
 
I only get these sounds through my front speakers, why the hell would you want that annoying sound through all your speakers?

Edit: realised that isn't very helpfull: if you haven't selected 5.1 speakers yet you can do that by opening your control panel, selecting sounds and audio devices (directly translated from dutch so could be slightly different) clicking the 'advanced' button for your speaker settings and selecting 5.1 surround speakers from the drop-down list.

Not all sounds will play through all your speakers and some music players won't use all speakers either but this also depends on your soundcard.
 
already did all that, but it still wont play through all them... Ive set Winamp up to it goes through them all ?
 
All I can say is my mobo is nforce2 and came with no 'out of the box' surround support. I didn't even know I could jack them into the line in and mic in ports. Until my friend had the exact same chipset. Anyways I upgraded my motherboard drivers (you could also upgrade your sound drivers - Realtek or something) and the 'nVidia mixer' appears. You select 5.1, do a test and set it up. Currently I have it set to 'clone' so music comes out of all 4 speakers (but not the middle one, in fact during testing the centre speaker is supposed to output white noise but instead beeps, it works during Doom 3 though).

So ... upgrade your sound or mobo drivers and it should become obvious. Or do what raven said and just set it in Windows, but doing that alone didn't work for me.
 
Rico posted on Sep 18 2004 at 07:57 PM said:
All I can say is my mobo is nforce2 and came with no 'out of the box' surround support. I didn't even know I could jack them into the line in and mic in ports. Until my friend had the exact same chipset. Anyways I upgraded my motherboard drivers (you could also upgrade your sound drivers - Realtek or something) and the 'nVidia mixer' appears. You select 5.1, do a test and set it up. Currently I have it set to 'clone' so music comes out of all 4 speakers (but not the middle one, in fact during testing the centre speaker is supposed to output white noise but instead beeps, it works during Doom 3 though).

So ... upgrade your sound or mobo drivers and it should become obvious. Or do what raven said and just set it in Windows, but doing that alone didn't work for me.

Ill try find some Drivers :D

No idea where to get any from hehe... the Sound card I have is a cheap £10 one but it does the job :D

the Sound cards model number I have is a L-8738-6C

time to look for drivers

thanks

the speakers are amazing btw :D thanks for recommending them :D
 
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Steve-O posted on Sep 18 2004 at 08:08 PM said:
Rico posted on Sep 18 2004 at 07:57 PM said:
All I can say is my mobo is nforce2 and came with no 'out of the box' surround support. I didn't even know I could jack them into the line in and mic in ports. Until my friend had the exact same chipset. Anyways I upgraded my motherboard drivers (you could also upgrade your sound drivers - Realtek or something) and the 'nVidia mixer' appears. You select 5.1, do a test and set it up. Currently I have it set to 'clone' so music comes out of all 4 speakers (but not the middle one, in fact during testing the centre speaker is supposed to output white noise but instead beeps, it works during Doom 3 though).

So ... upgrade your sound or mobo drivers and it should become obvious. Or do what raven said and just set it in Windows, but doing that alone didn't work for me.

Ill try find some Drivers :D

No idea where to get any from hehe... the Sound card I have is a cheap £10 one but it does the job :D

the Sound cards model number I have is a L-8738-6C

time to look for drivers

thanks

the speakers are amazing btw :D thanks for recommending them :D

A lot of soundcards still dont support 5.1 - you sure yours does?
 
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Rico posted on Sep 18 2004 at 10:11 PM said:
Axeman posted on Sep 18 2004 at 11:03 PM said:
A lot of soundcards still dont support 5.1 - you sure yours does?
It's 6.1 channel, yes. Drivers are here:

http://www.cmedia.com.tw/download/OS-e-cmi8738_WDM_OS.htm

and include a multi-channel audio demo app.

I found some Newer Drivers from another site :D

THanks for looking and it Works Nicely :)

The Sound Card seems amazing value for money, £9 it cost me from Novatech :D
 
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Sound Card technology is one of those rare things that cannot be improved that much unless you have super-sensitive hearing. And most people of our generation are half-deaf from listening to their music so loud ;)

I still can't tell THAT much of a difference between a new $500 stereo system versus my old 4 Speakers + Subwoofer + Soundblaster Live! Value.
 
generalnmx posted on Sep 19 2004 at 01:06 AM said:
Sound Card technology is one of those rare things that cannot be improved that much unless you have super-sensitive hearing. And most people of our generation are half-deaf from listening to their music so loud ;)

I still can't tell THAT much of a difference between a new $500 stereo system versus my old 4 Speakers + Subwoofer + Soundblaster Live! Value.

I can tell the Difference from my old £8 2.1 channel speakers and my new £40 Inspire 5.1 Speakres :D

The Old 2.1 speakers sound used to go all dodgy when turned up and I thought the bass was good on my 2.1 :p
The New 5.1 are Amazing, and the new Sub compaierd to my 2.1's sub is 1000 times better :D
 
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Steve-O posted on Sep 19 2004 at 10:24 AM said:
generalnmx posted on Sep 19 2004 at 01:06 AM said:
Sound Card technology is one of those rare things that cannot be improved that much unless you have super-sensitive hearing. And most people of our generation are half-deaf from listening to their music so loud ;)

I still can't tell THAT much of a difference between a new $500 stereo system versus my old 4 Speakers + Subwoofer + Soundblaster Live! Value.

I can tell the Difference from my old £8 2.1 channel speakers and my new £40 Inspire 5.1 Speakres :D

The Old 2.1 speakers sound used to go all dodgy when turned up and I thought the bass was good on my 2.1 :p
The New 5.1 are Amazing, and the new Sub compaierd to my 2.1's sub is 1000 times better :D

Well that's a given :D I mean, no matter how much technology improves, crap is still crap!
 
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