Talk:Sound Blaster Live!
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[edit] 4.1 controversy
I've been thinking about this so-called controversy or mis-marketing. Is there any advantage to doing the frequency filtering on the sound card vs. the speakers? It's still 4.1 audio, even if it's not done by the sound card. Games themselves don't filter out the low frequencies to a special channel, so it's not like there's data loss between the game and the speakers. Games see a 4.1 setup as "quadraphonic" I believe. [1] I'm thinking the 4.1 notation is more referring to the speaker systems than anything on the computer.
And, 4.1 is certainly not limited to Creative. Aureal's cards, Ensoniq AudioPCI, Philips Seismic Edge, and many others offer identical 4 speaker output with no sub channel. --Swaaye 17:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
