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so let's talk about onboard audio and how friggin good it is nowadays welcome back to tech yes City ladies and gentlemen this is brian coming back to you guys today with a video on onboard audio and just how freakin good it is nowadays so when i recently performed a review on the sound blaster a5 i was doing some objective measurements with room eq that's a program where you can do an eq sweep but you can also test out crosstalk as well and when I did the crosstalk figures on when I did the crosstalk tests on the onboard fatality purity sound I found that that was really good like we're talking less than 60 DB of difference there I mean more than 260 DB of different sound crosstalk which is really good figures that means you guys probably wondering what's crosstalk well cross talks essentially when you're playing a signal through your left channel for example and some of that's leaking over to the right so the less of the less crosstalk you have the more true a stereo experience you are going to get so if you've got really high levels of crosstalk you're essentially just going to be getting one crap mono experience so when I'm judge audio products nowadays I actually really take a big focus on crosstalk so whether you consciously up subconsciously notice it I don't know but you definitely subconsciously will notice that so anyway this is one thing that I had to get out of the way with so onboard audio has come really far especially the purity sound that's it blew me away and then we got to get onto the EQ when I did a room EQ sweep with this motherboard I was surprised at just how balanced it was now there was a little bit of bass roll-off but when I actually used a program called equalizer Apo I could give the bass a nice 4 DB boost there and that pretty much eliminated the bass roll-off and so that problem can be fixed with a free downloaded program and I'll put that in the link description below for you guys so you can just download that I've got a full tutorial for how to use equalizer a peel as well if you're wondering how to use it so that's pretty much the nuts and bolts of this video is that onboard audio nowadays especially the fatality that recently reviewed the crosstalk is freaky Lo and it's like pretty much competing with the USB decamp solution not only that you get low input lag since it's your onboard audio and yeah it's got a good mic input which I'm recording from now so I mean I'm just really impressed with how far it's come and I just had to share this with you guys and another thing on that note as well is that the Sound Blaster a5 that's got really low crosstalk as well and that's a good unit in its own so stay tuned for that review there's definitely a lot of features in this bad boy as well but anyway guys that's onboard audio really damn good it's come a long way and if someone tells you that onboard audio is crap then you may wish to ask them which onboard audio solution are you talking about because obviously on cheaper boards there's going to be poorer onboard audio solutions implemented on those motherboards when we're talking high in motherboards definitely from a Xerox front they get a big thumbs up from me because I was just shocked when I saw these objective figures you guys I hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions or comments about this video then be sure to post a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and if you want to subscribe to the channel and become part of the yes City then be sure to do that and you can also check me out on Twitter get the latest updates and whatnot and if you want to support the channel and head over to patreon every dollar helps to keep the channel sponsor free anyway guys I'll catch you in another video very soon peace out for now bye