Topic: UCX Lack Of Stereo Imaging
Hi Guys
so had an issue ever since I have owned my UCX where by the stereo is virtually none existent ?? everything played back on the RME almost sounds mono ... no depth or width
what I mean by this, there is no stereo width in the music when played back on the UCX, I have suffered for so long thinking most of my CD lossless rips were badly mastered CDs.
But there not!, I used EAC on a HP Z640 workstation to RIP in some of my CDs in lossless wav format, played the RIPS back on the HP z640 onboard Cheap Realtek Sound Card and the results were amazing, I was hearing width, depth in the music, stereo effects from left to right in the speakers, a sound quality that the RME UCX has never reproduced for me!
I could not believe how good the CD Rips sounded playing back on a cheap realtek onboard sound card.
This realtek cheap card has no special effects or eq set, it just plain windows drivers / normal sound settings, nothing enabled as FX
My main machine which has the RME UCX is what I do all my music processing on, so I have always used this as the reference machine having the best sound card.
But i'm not sure MY RME is the best, when I play the same HQ lossless rip back that sounded really good on the realtek sound card .... great stereo imaging etc.
On the RME you can hardly tell there is any stereo, I have lived with this issue for so long, Reset all the TOTAL mixer / updated drivers etc. But it is just lacking stereo imaging, to the point that CD RIPs on the RME machine, I have nearly thrown CDs away thinking they were so BADLY mastered, but there not!!
It's the RME that makes them sound like MONO recording, lifeless and lacking imaging, I have had this issue ever since owning my RME UCX, possibly it's faulty from the moment I purchased it?
What makes it even worse when I press the mono button on the output fader in total mix , there is virtually no difference in the imaging / sound quality
Now that's not right
Any help or advice always appreciated, but possibly going to be looking for a different sound card as using my work station on a cheap onboard sound card has really showed up the UCX
could not believe the difference in sound quality imaging in the recording
Regards