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9137 is still the best.
9147 doesn't have the punch with thump on sub woofer, just thump.
As for the highs where a high hat is played it sounds a bit muffled, where the sound should be tiss tiss tiss, is just tich tich tich(like the word "which"), so you can say the really highs are being clipped.
Mids seem good though.
It's like these drivers were made for low bit rate mp3, and nothing better.
Hi, I'd just like to check if I'm using the right drivers. I have an Asrock A320M-HDV motherboard with ALC887 on it. So far, I've been just using the *update only* UAD drivers provided by Mokichu after initially installing the driver package from my motherboard support site. Is this what I should be doing? Thank you for your your help and your time.
Interesting comments about the 9147 drivers. I've only got my new build up and running today which has an ROG Asus Strix x570 mainboard with ALC 1220a sound which sounds miles better than what was coming out of my old Gigabyte motherboard. So I'm not a guru currently of sound on Asus mainboards.
I listen exclusively to classical music and have mild high frequency hearing loss and have a high quality AVR with decent speakers and Sennheiser audiophile headphones. That said I can hear the 'thump' in the bass in regards to the new drivers.
Lol yeah. But Cliff said no punch with the thump.
And it was (probably) in a comparison to the 9137 drivers directly, meaning 9137 had the punch with the thump, whereas in comparison, 9147 was lacking.
Musical genre choices will also probably affect what one hears (and how they hear them).
I haven't done a full test in a long time, since well before I built my new rig, because of a lack of time more than anything, but for the most part, with my old rig especially, Cliff and I usually saw Eye to Eye on how the drivers would sound, so I'm inclined to accept his review at face value.