Snap Crackle Pop

Aloha all! I'm trying again to pick out a sound card that won't crackle with an EVGA board... The Razor Barracuda is looking good and I just wanted to throw out a line and see if anyone bites. Has anybody ever had any SCP (snap crackle pop) with the Barracuda model or with their EVGA board?

I have a creative card on a Evga motherboard.. no driver issues, no crackling, no issues. I swap out components so much that I ran it for a while with onboard, and was very suprised how much better is was with the sound card.

Originally posted by JoeBagaDonuts Thanks for the feedback, guys! I will probably go with the Barracuda but its nice to hear folks are having luck with Creative. We had like a fifty-seven page cry about SCP on their website and they really did nothing but hand us a hanky... It had something to do with my SLI configuration and the way Jupiter lined up with the sun on rainy days.   They left us out to dry and my avowed boycott of their products has really narrowed my selection of gaming boutiques! Some peeps say sound cards are a relic of a gone time and others insist, like you did, how much of a difference they make. The pro-SC folks simply cannot all be market reps and fanboys!!! PEACE

It's amazing how ignorant people can be because of an experience they had.  That bad moment in their lives records for eternity the disposition and color that they will carry forward.  You're correct, pro-SC folks are not all market reps and fanboys.  Because one has a bad experience doesn't make that any less true.

You seem to be an open-minded person; one who carries an even intellect that can weigh separately bull from sh*t.  Sometimes people advocate something simply because they like it... period.  Sometimes there are those that can distinctly tell a difference  between onboard sound and a souncard; a DAT and a CD; HDMI and composite; low resolutions and beyond statistically recorded higher resolutions.

We, the human, may all be built on similar biological platforms, but we all are unique in our applications and that is why some can do more than others.  My limitations are not your limitations necessarily and that is why we have different people functioning in different areas differently.

The common thread in forums like these is too label someone negatively that has a different opinion or claims to have a unique sense about them that would contradict the majority.  That majority feeds off itself and its ability to ignore the possibility that someone may be correct in their assessment of something that might differ from the evidence, whatever that may be.  The disconnect is that people, a vast majority, cannot see beyond their own inability which in turn becomes their own short-coming.

If I were to stand before you and deny your claim that you could sense a storm coming based on my limited knowledge and my own willingness too believe charts, graphs and reports only, wouldn't that make me ignorant?  Because I cannot understand your ability to know something simply based on a feeling or a sense doesn't make your ability any less likely.  It simply shows me that I am not equal to you and maybe there is something within you that is quite unique and apart from me... and that's ok.

I also use a Creative SC and have for many years.  I know onboard sound has apparently come a long way, but I still believe, because I hear something that tells me the story in my interpretation, that a SC can give you better performance and higher sound quality.  It also uses less resources and can be self sustaining in those resources, apart from the other pieces of hardware in the PC.  As far as the cracking and popping, I've had that problem way in the past and it required messing with the settings and doing some trouble shooting.  I've never returned a SC though because of that reason.  I've always been able to piddle around the settings and figure out a solution, frustrating as it was.

This post was not directed toward you personally, rather all those who think ignorantly, without knowledge and understanding, and errantly shoot down the possibility that others might just be able to see it differently beyond the limited outlook of those that are so legalistic they cannot see the forest for the trees.


Edited by EdH63 - 17 Nov 2009 at 9:46pm

I had a feeling you'd respond as if I were directing my 500 pound gorilla at you.  I said, "This post was not directed toward you personally".  And, I don't personally connect your analogy to egos and domination (whew!).  I was simply pointing out that we are different and we can achieve different levels of possibilities based on our God given talents and abilities.  My rant had nothing to do with domination, poverty and despair.

One's ability to do anything that may seem "above" another's inability to conceive it doesn't necessarily equal hegemony or dominance.  Those results come from choices.  I'm simply saying that some people can exhibit traits that others cannot and others will choose to ignore that, ridicule or accept that; choices based in our own arrogance, ego, independence, understanding, knowledge, etc; Because I know, I am!  You know, things like that.  My rant was pointing toward conversations in the past on this forum about monitor resolutions, SCs vs. onboard sound and charts & graphs vs. real world experience.  The human nature factors into that because we are all wired differently and we will experience things uniquely at times.  The trick is how do we come together and discuss that without damaging each other?  It seems that folks here are getting a pretty good handle on how that looks more and more.

I, too, have read many forums about the Creative debacle.  It's very unfortunate and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.  But, these are the experiences we will have that drive us toward, or away, from these things.  I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with Creative, and I hope you get that resolved soon.

PS - I'm glad you're here, too.         


Edited by EdH63 - 18 Nov 2009 at 8:21am

Originally posted by justin.kerr My wife has pretty good ears, and we both are into muscic/sound a lot. And I think that with good speakers, there is a noticable difference in the mid-upper range over onboard. but the big difference for me is in the low's, it seems like most onboard the really low sounds just are not there, and the bass just seems muddy with onboard... Most don't have subs like me on their PC's so maybe that is why onboard seems to neuter it.

LIAR!!!  

I can tell that you're a philosophical and good guy, Ed! I didn't mean to sound defensive but I love a good debate. I was just pointing out that, in my opinion, most of the chaos and misery in the world is a result of people trying to reach the unattainable. Its like a dog, with a bone in its mouth, looking down at its reflection in the water... It wants the reflected bone, too, so it drops the one in its mouth!

You too, Ed! Live long and prosper!