X-Fi

Hello,

I recently purchase the Studio XPS 13. I added the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Sound Card thinking it would improve the quality of sound playing through the notebook speakers. Was I wrong? Is this only for use with external speakers/headphones?

If it can in fact improve the laptop speakers, how do you make this happen? I have "enable audio playback through notebook speakers" turned on, but I don't think this is right; adjusting the volume of the "SB X-Fi Speakers" doesn't change the volume - only adjusting the volume of the regular Dell speakers does.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Yes, external soundcards ( Creative X-Fi Expresscard) are only meant for external sources : speakers/headphones. Because internal speakers are hard wired to the internal sound card. Anyways, built-in speakers are crap no matter what you do. Get a pair of good headphones or speakers instead.

 

Thank you!

 

That is true I had the same card in my Studio and due to the limitation of the speakers the gain was marginal even using the mixer to play thru the onboard speakers. Use earphones or externals. You can buy the wireless receiver and hook in your stereo speakers and play it that as well. But the speaker in the that line are garbage.

 

u can checkout DFX 8 if u wanna improve the sound quality of your laptop speakers...its a DSP software (digital sound processor)


here is the link: http://www.fxsound.com/

 

DSP's improving sound is an oxymoron IMO.....

 

i tried the DFX for winamp....the plugin it installed to winamp dulled sound, and once i uninstalled the plugin, the sound was the same as if DFX was turned on.

it didn't really seem to do anything for me.

 

This is what you would want if you wanted to tune your player to your speakers. Although it might be priced a bit high to be using with your laptop speakers.
http://refinedaudiometrics.com/products-plpareq.shtml

 

If you want to consider software enhancers, then forget about DFX, Here is a better FREE Winamp DSP plugin, very good for boosting bass without compromising treble.