i think most games don't use more than 44100, with the sound ssytems i've tried in the past i havent noticed any difference myself.

Question : I use 
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16829102033

 
I have it set always to 24-bit 192KHz, is that wrong?
 
 
 
 
 

if it can output it then nothing wrong with that.  a higher sample rate just means it can check the source a LOT more often and thus make the sound truer to the original waveform.  granted you won't actually notice the difference unless your source is at that higher sample rate as well since it is digital, otherwise its just gonna dither all the extra samples which will still result in a more crisp sound.

Lets see if I can explain this in English...
 
An audio cd output is 16bit 44100KHz.
 
Look at KHz as pictures or snapshots per second.  At 44100KHz, you system is taking 44100 snapshots of that audio per second. At 48000KHz your system is taking 48000 snapshots per second. 96000KHz is 96000 snapshots per second and so on.
If the audio is recorded at 48000khz and you have your device set to output at 96000Khz, you are really getting nothing, because the audio was recorded at 48000khz.  It similar to FPS in a video game.  If your monitor has a refresh rate of 60hz, but your video card is pushing out 120 FPS, you are still only going to see 60 fps.
 
I would recommend just setting you audio output to 16bit 44100KHz. It's audio cd quality which is plenty good enough for our games.  It really comes down to what the audio was recorded at. Outputting the audio at higher quality is of no consequence if the audio was recorded at a lower quality.

Chad r
Question : I use 
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD
http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16829102033


I have it set always to 24-bit 192KHz, is that wrong?

It's not wrong...  That sound card is probably pretty descent for recording, which is why it even has the option of 192khz...  But since most output isn't of that HD quality, it's kind of a waste...  Just set the output to either 16bit 44100khz or 24bit 48000khz and you'll be good to go...  The 192 is pretty much a waste...  unless you are recording, and even then it's overkill.   When I record at my recording studio, I record at 32bit 48000khz...  but by the time I output the song to a cd to listen to in my car, I dither (downsample) it to 16 bit 44100khz since that's as good as a standard car cd player can recognize.

moose517

zildjian75
Lets see if I can explain this in English...
 
An audio cd output is 16bit 44100KHz.
 
Look at KHz as pictures or snapshots per second.  At 44100KHz, you system is taking 44100 snapshots of that audio per second. At 48000KHz your system is taking 48000 snapshots per second. 96000KHz is 96000 snapshots per second and so on.
If the audio is recorded at 48000khz and you have your device set to output at 96000Khz, you are really getting nothing, because the audio was recorded at 48000khz.  It similar to FPS in a video game.  If your monitor has a refresh rate of 60hz, but your video card is pushing out 120 FPS, you are still only going to see 60 fps.
 
I would recommend just setting you audio output to 16bit 44100KHz. It's audio cd quality which is plenty good enough for our games.  It really comes down to what the audio was recorded at. Outputting the audio at higher quality is of no consequence if the audio was recorded at a lower quality.

the FPS with monitor refresh isn't really a good analogy.  Monitor frames shown are purely digital so of course its only going to show the 60 instead of 120 but with a sound card especially using an analog output the sound card can dither in all the rest of the sample that the source doesn't have and so when outputting to the speakers will have a bit more smoothing between the actual samples.  better example with monitor is if you have a 120hz monitor but only 60FPS cap in game, the monitor will dither the other 60 frames to display

Yes. You are correct. That is a better example.

Corsair SP 2500
http://www.corsair.com/pc-computer-audio/pc-computer-speakers/gaming-audio-series-sp2500-high-power-2-1-pc-speaker-system.html
 
these are my speakers.

It seems that there is also 32 bit sound that oddly enough my USB soundcard that can with my headset can do (why it can do it I don't know, but it shows up in the windows config options) And makes me wonder if there is any point in upping the bitrate as well.