Audio Confusion, On Board / Soundcard
I've had a PC Desktop for about 10 years, and decided it was time for a new one. It's no high end rig, but am massively happy with it, except for one confusion. Audio.Before I proceed, I am listening to my PC Audio through Corsair SP2500 Speakers (2.1 system). These were considered pretty high end for 2.1 speakers a year or 2 back, and I love the sound from them.
Anyways. My old PC was running Realtek ALC1200 (8 Channel HD Audio) from my Asus P5Q Pro motherboard, the motherboard was an award winning high end one when I got the old computer years ago. The sound it knocked out was amazing. My new tower was on a lower budget, and my motherboard now is a Gigabyte H310M S2H. I overlooked sound when buying (silly me) and it comes with a Realtek ALC887 Audio, something that everyone seems to be telling me, is a step down from ALC1200. I wasn't too bothered until I hooked it up, and sure enough the audio was noticably worse. Is the ALC887 worse than the 10 year old ALC1200? I would of thought the newer one would be better, but it doesn't sound it at all.
To workaround this I bought a Soundblaster Z Soundcard, now my music sounds amazing again, but it has introduced a new issue....movies. On my Corsair 2.1 setup, the audio in general is fine on movies, until something dramatic happens, then the sound blasts out the speakers, something it never did before.
An example, I watched Invictus last night (for those unaware its a movie with some Rugby in it). The narrative, music etc was fine, but everytime the crowd cheered the volume was hugely increased and when they were grunting (in the scrum) it sounded awfully loud. Like the range is un-even, how can I level it out without impacting my music listening too much? Check your audio balance. Also check for enabled enhancements, turn those off.
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