wanted: Chaintech AV-710 buyers

[SnooP]

I'm going to order one of these sound cards of a USA store (compgeeks) in a couple of weeks so i thought i'd offer any lanx dude the chance to buy one of these excellent sound cards at a discount price. I did a google search and the only aussie online store stocked them at $90, i should be able to get them for $50 each or maybe a bit less (depending on exchange rate, number of buyers etc). I've already got a couple of mates you are probably gonna buy em. If you don't already know these are the best value sound card on the market. For $50 you get a sound card that shits all over any creative card (including audigy2) for mp3/cd audio playback and can do up to 7.1 channels. no EAX however.

review and full specs at
http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75454

People who bought an av-710
Me - - - - - PAID!!! + has card
Luke - - - - - PAID!!! + has card
Joshu - - - - - PAID!!! + has card
Nipples STILL NEEDS TO PAY
Dutchy - - - - - PAID!!! + has card
Kingo55 - - - - - PAID!!! + mailed off card
Plazma - - - - - PAID!!! - needs to pick up card

Special orders:
CVT - JustCom KVM thing - PAID collect your KVM now!

Oh and sound cards have arrived so pick em up, then download the drivers (don't use the ones on cd) from
http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/drivers/audio/Envy24_Family_Drivers_V43 2b.zip

[cvt]

hmm, let me know before ya order, I'm planning on a terratek or audiotrak...
but if I end up being short of dough, I'll grab one of them ;)

[SnooP]

yeah no probs.

[cvt]

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=JC-102CUA&cat=NET

kvm with usb, I want.
what ya say dude?

[Joshu]

$50 australian? EAX can go jump, I'm sick of AC97. Count me in, SnooP.

Just looking through compgeeks for any other cheap american shit I want to impulse-buy.

[cvt]

http://www.audiotrak.net/prodigy71.htm
nup, thoguht over and over and over about it... and I'm still gonna get one of him, if I can't afford it, I'll wait with onboard till I can.
but I'm still interested in the KVM switch if you'd bring it in aswell.

[SnooP]

thats a nice looking soundcard there CVT!!! I'd buy one to but im poor as.

[Nipples]

y0 gimme a couple of days to verify, but I should be grabbing one of those

[SnooP]

no worries, you'll have at least a week before i start asking everyone for money. Oh and CVT i can order that justcom thing for ya if you want. i'll pm details in a few days.

[kingo55]

Sweet! Put me down for one of those! What are the payment arangements?

cheers, kingo

[SnooP]

i'll pm bank details in a few days and you (and everyone else) can send the money over via internet banking. If that doesn't suit then otherwise you can just drop the money off to me personally (i live in ballarat east).

[cvt]

awsome snoop, thx
yeh, they are an awsome SC, I had a maya2, but sold it for money, and did the stupid thing, bought a audigy later when I had a bit of spare bling bling..
this one ur getting sounds good, hope it works out!

[kingo55]

The best part about this sound card has to be how it can bypass kmixer, read this: http://htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3616 . That is the reason for my buying this card - It damn well better work :P

[SnooP]

well if you use directsound you should be able to bypass kmixer. However to be sure your getting bit perfect playback use kernal streaming (works out the box). You could use ASIO but thats more fiddling around than kernal streaming. theres a kernal streaming plugin for winamp and foobar2k has it to.
TIP for everyone. Don't install the chaintech drivers, download the drivers provided by VIA
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

[kingo55]

oh yeah, and it's supposed to be a good idea to modify the drivers to play out of the Wolfson DACs - or so I read...

[SnooP]

Alright time to pay. If you can get payment in by the end of the week so i can order the cards and stuff on the weekend. If anyone else wants one, you can but get payment ASAP!

The reason i am rushing it a bit is because the aussie dollar is so high at the moment so i wanna get the cards while its up at 75 cents or so.

Anyways i'll pm bank details to all involved and address if you wanna just give me cash. If anyone needs a few days to pay thats probably ok but sooner i get money, sooner everyone gets sound cards :)

[kingo55]

Awesome! The money's on it's way! I hope it doesn't come while I'm down at schoolies though :S

EDIT: Oh yeah, what about postage? I can't quite make it down to your house...

I hope this order doesn't get taxed like some overseas orders...

[SnooP]

nah won't be taxed. Customs threshold is like $1000 in Australia (i've imported things worth more than this with not duty). And postage will most likely be either $3.20 or $4.40 (depending on weight of the thing) , or I'll bring it to at next lanx. Whatever works best for everyone. Anyways just PM your address sometime in the next week or two.

[Dutchy]

Count me in definitley!!!!

I've been looking a good sound card.

I'll give the money to Nipples
(Kit) to give to you.

Email me at midjet777@hotmail.com for any queries.

[SnooP]

Alright, so in effect nipples is ordering 2 and giving one of them to you?

[Dutchy]

Yup, but first.

Is it true what I've heard that these cards separate the bass from the other outputs?

Therefore denying the ability to pump out full stereo sound through some standard 2.1 Channel speakers?

Cos i don't have 5.1 let alone 7.1 as of yet.

[SnooP]

I'm not exactly sure...Though in stereo mode i'd assume the drivers would downmix everything to two channels, including the bass channels. Im not exactly sure what your getting at....Does your speaker setup have three channels of input or just two channels, with bass seperation done by the speakers itself?

[kingo55]

i think there's a plugin you can get for foobar 2000 that can do that but i'm not sure. checkout foobar 2000, its very configurable.

-kingo

[Joshu]

Don't worry Dutchy, you'll be fine; if you're talking about your current speakers, they're 2.0 anyway, so you'll be fine. The card should downmix anything 5.1 to 2.0 if you've got it selected.

[SnooP]

sorry CVT i just noticed the JustCom is out of stock, good thing you haven't paid for it yet...

[SnooP]

Ahh good everyone has paid, except nipples/dutchy. so get to it cos i wanna order this weekend while aussie dollar is sky high

[kingo55]

Is there an ETA of how long till we get our chaintechs?

cheers, kingo

[SnooP]

um somewhere between 2 and 3 weeks. I'm still waiting on CVT and Nipples

[kingo55]

cheers

[cvt]

moneys in, so ya should see it mondey dude

[SnooP]

excellent

[SnooP]

Alright i've ordered the shit since almost everyone has payed. Dutchy / Nipples i'm still waiting. Sound cards should be here in a couple of weeks

[SnooP]

Sound cards and CVT's KVM switch just came in everyone! so you can pick em up from here. I'll be around for the next few days. Otherwise i can bring them to XVZ3 if your in no hurry, or pm me and we'll work something out. oh and when you get your card, don't install the drivers off the cd. get the ones from this link instead

http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/drivers/audio/Envy24_Family_Drivers_V43 2b.zip

oh and heres a cool setup guide
http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75655