From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Dec 13 20:10:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22003 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA21997 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:10:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id CAA03367; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:59:31 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199812140159.CAA03367@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 -- good choice? To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:59:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812140008.SAA60153@n4hhe.ampr.org> from "David Kelly" at Dec 13, 98 06:07:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Zach Heilig writes: > It's ok, but definately not the best choice. I have one, and it is quite > noisy (If lots of hiss doesn't bother you, it's a fair choice, just don't plan > on getting good results when digitizing audio). I think I read that it barely > has 40dB SNR. The regular soundblaster 16 has about 35dB SNR. Just about I have a hard time believing it -- 35-40dB is terribly poor for any standard. Are you sure you have read things right or perhaps those values refer to only some modes e.g. 8-bit ? luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message