PCS-Electronics

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:08 am**

Does anyone know of any issues with PCI MAX 2005 and the "Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS" ?

Since I installed the new sound card, there is a loud hiss in stereo transmission. It worked perfectly before when using the computers (Compaq Evo D500) own built in card.

plese help

thank you
Tony

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:48 pm**

Use the old sound card

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:08 pm**

Kinda defeats the purpose of buying a quality sound card.

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:49 pm**

It may not be as much of a quality as you think, looks like
it has some "artifacts", signals above hearing range that
weren't filtered out.

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:00 pm**

how come the hiss is not heard from the computers speakers ?

Posted: **Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:09 pm**

This "hiss" is originally above your hearing range. In stereo encoder
it mixes with other signals, probably 19KHz, and you can hear
the difference as a hiss.

Normally it isn't a problem since you can't hear above ~ 15-20KHz.

A low pass filter would probably help with this.

PCS-Electronics

PCI MAX 2005 Vs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

PCI MAX 2005 Vs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS