Can anybody supply 'sound' advice.....

<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">I have been waiting for an X-fi external solution since the advent of the X-fi series... But can any of you Creative Contributors help me with the following questions?!?:<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">?<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">. I have a high-end laptop with a Creative Extigy attached/connected into Klipsch promedia 5.'s and a large wma collection encoded at 92kb
ps.
For BEST musical/audio results will the Xmod go between the extigy and the speakers or will I effecti'vely have to 'dump' the extigy as it will not connect the two together and/or render the extigy redundant?<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">?<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">2. Will I fully appreciate the Xmod when utilising 92kbps encoded wma's? - Have heard differing reports that it works wonders with 28kbps mp3's but not with 92kbps compressed files. Any thoughts on this guys? <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">?<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">(I appreciate that I will prob not utilise cmss as I like my tunes, most of the time, with cmss off!).<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">?<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">Look forward to some good advice (and?maybe some differing opinions......<img height="6" width="6[/img] src="http://forums.creative.com/i/smilies/6x6_smiley-wink.gif"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#0000ff">PolzyB

Do you want to pay someone to write a VI for you or do you want help in learning how to put one together yourself?
What is the amplitude of the output of the amplifier? Both full scale signal and expected noise in the absence of a signal. What is the frequency range or bandwidth of the amplifier? Is the noise bandwidth significantly different from the signal bandwidth?
Do you have a DAQ device? If so, which one?
What is to be done with the data after it is acquired? Display, save to file, control something?
What interaction with the software will the user have? What inputs does the user need to enter? Is there data to be read from a file (test parameters for different amplifier models for example)? What outputs will be presented to the user? Raw data measurements, Pass/Fail indications, other...?
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