after i tested the sound quality on Recon3D, isn't much improvement over v2 mod driver. About 5 ~15% improvement over realtek mod v2 driver. "on speaker"
Recon3D is based on software acceleration to output sound Quality, so X-Fi sound card is much better and using hardware acceleration for output sound Quality.
Notice: Recon3D only support 5.1 speaker "correct me if wrong information", is an upgrade over old X-Fi Xtreme Audio. X-Fi Titanium still better then this new Recon3D.
Compare:
Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Omega Wireless and
Logitech 7.1 G35 Surround headset
Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Omega Wireless has great improvement over Logitech.
overall remark: not worth getting new creative Recon3D sound card, it's better get X-Fi Titanium "
SGD$139" or other product.
"It incorporates Creative's innovative Quartet DSP with four independent processor cores"
"X-Fi Quartet DSP is so named because it supports 4 hardware threads"
"Quartet is made up of 4 independent two-issue SIMD engines...Each thread has access to two SIMD"
"the capabilities of the Quartet DSP, this list of features:
2 SIMD units per each of 4 simultaneous threads
fixed and floating point data supported
235 opcodes
up to 1200 MIPS
can perform up to 4 moves per instruction"
isn't a new chip. It's respin of same design with DAC integrated in it. Using rename "quad core" to describe old feature for marketing purposes.