JudeWei
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Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but I've had some bad luck experimenting on my own to find the best playback quality for writing and mixing on my own at my home work station.
I'm sure I'm not the only person to find these days it feels like any search engine listing is only interested in reviewing products rather than education.
That's the reason I joined and so thank you for allowing me into your forum
I search but not turning up anything thats overly helpiing my specific need for info so if anyone with more experience than I have would give me your best advice for what to do gonig forward, would love the most opinions i can get just to see what the general feeling is because I have no clue, its hard to really find people in real life and everything I find just feels like a direct and then othertimes often some secret underhanded marketing campasign in disguise.
I currently have a generic type of setup, brands are not important at my price point but I'll describe as best I can and if you need more info feel free I'll be more specific if neccesary.
AMD Ryzen PC 8cores @ 4.2ghz (Its driving my projects for the most part)
64gB Ram (I dont think any issues here or CPU but I like Omniverse and Kontakt so I push my rersources)
Presonus AudioBox USB Older 48000khz version (Output works half the time since unsupported drivers, can sometimes record no problem)
MouKey Usb3.0 24bit Interface Total Garbage (Generic drivers - it has problems that make the output not an option & recordings is less quality than presonus despite better specs listed).
Both of these I've "scored" by trading local people who didnt want them, for the price I got a good deal but had no power of selection, however, better than not having at all.
I also have a cheap direct USB condensor its not the best, and some other XLR condensors and XLR dynamic mics, doesnt really matter in this case however.
My Motherboard's green stereo output is my current output in use audio output is running so called "Hi Def Audio Device" of the Microsoft Driver variety
This runs with the Stereo 1/8 unbalanced audio line to 4" Studio Monitors Mackie CRX brand One active 1 passive (better than nothing)
Before I was using a Samsung HDMI Home Stereo Reciever and Polk Audio 5.1 Speaker set which was good except not flat in the sense of moitors and would often lead to Stereo Pairing issues if something would fall out of the wirie clips and just all aorund was not a good set up for producing so thats not what I'm using here anymore, plus I neeeded space under my desk.
Mainly because the presonus interface doesnt function properly most of the time on output.
GPU hosts HDMI Nvidea 1.3.38.35 HD Audio Drivers I could but don't use since I got the monitors
So I have a couple hundred CDN and I really wanna do myself a solid for my audio playback situation.
My instinct tellsme to find something that can use the balanced input option on the monitors at the full definition, I'm of the understanding the green output on nmy motherboard is only unbalanced, and my presonus interface is thwe only one that couple have that option but its not working kind of over ready to move on.
Ive looked at a number of things including what I think is probably the best interface in my price range.
Options like Tube Headphone Preamps ....
PCIe Soundcards that seems to be mostly desined for gaming but dop offer comparible specs for what I'd like, however, nothing with the "Balanced" R/L output.Unfortunatyely due to my financial situation Amazon is my only real option for a store front right now. I understand if we dont wanna mention brands and etc, my bad if thats the case sorry.
Other wise, I apologize if this was far to specific, don't eman to lose you in details but I'm just putting all out in hopes for the best advice.
Hope you an help even me!
Thanks for having me!
I'm sure I'm not the only person to find these days it feels like any search engine listing is only interested in reviewing products rather than education.
That's the reason I joined and so thank you for allowing me into your forum
I search but not turning up anything thats overly helpiing my specific need for info so if anyone with more experience than I have would give me your best advice for what to do gonig forward, would love the most opinions i can get just to see what the general feeling is because I have no clue, its hard to really find people in real life and everything I find just feels like a direct and then othertimes often some secret underhanded marketing campasign in disguise.
I currently have a generic type of setup, brands are not important at my price point but I'll describe as best I can and if you need more info feel free I'll be more specific if neccesary.
AMD Ryzen PC 8cores @ 4.2ghz (Its driving my projects for the most part)
64gB Ram (I dont think any issues here or CPU but I like Omniverse and Kontakt so I push my rersources)
Presonus AudioBox USB Older 48000khz version (Output works half the time since unsupported drivers, can sometimes record no problem)
MouKey Usb3.0 24bit Interface Total Garbage (Generic drivers - it has problems that make the output not an option & recordings is less quality than presonus despite better specs listed).
Both of these I've "scored" by trading local people who didnt want them, for the price I got a good deal but had no power of selection, however, better than not having at all.
I also have a cheap direct USB condensor its not the best, and some other XLR condensors and XLR dynamic mics, doesnt really matter in this case however.
My Motherboard's green stereo output is my current output in use audio output is running so called "Hi Def Audio Device" of the Microsoft Driver variety
This runs with the Stereo 1/8 unbalanced audio line to 4" Studio Monitors Mackie CRX brand One active 1 passive (better than nothing)
Before I was using a Samsung HDMI Home Stereo Reciever and Polk Audio 5.1 Speaker set which was good except not flat in the sense of moitors and would often lead to Stereo Pairing issues if something would fall out of the wirie clips and just all aorund was not a good set up for producing so thats not what I'm using here anymore, plus I neeeded space under my desk.
Mainly because the presonus interface doesnt function properly most of the time on output.
GPU hosts HDMI Nvidea 1.3.38.35 HD Audio Drivers I could but don't use since I got the monitors
So I have a couple hundred CDN and I really wanna do myself a solid for my audio playback situation.
My instinct tellsme to find something that can use the balanced input option on the monitors at the full definition, I'm of the understanding the green output on nmy motherboard is only unbalanced, and my presonus interface is thwe only one that couple have that option but its not working kind of over ready to move on.
Ive looked at a number of things including what I think is probably the best interface in my price range.
Options like Tube Headphone Preamps ....
PCIe Soundcards that seems to be mostly desined for gaming but dop offer comparible specs for what I'd like, however, nothing with the "Balanced" R/L output.Unfortunatyely due to my financial situation Amazon is my only real option for a store front right now. I understand if we dont wanna mention brands and etc, my bad if thats the case sorry.
Other wise, I apologize if this was far to specific, don't eman to lose you in details but I'm just putting all out in hopes for the best advice.
Hope you an help even me!
Thanks for having me!