From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Aug 26 10:26:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA23553 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA23500 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05572; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708261725.KAA05572@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, sales@omt.com Subject: Re: Regard to phone call about FreeBSD drivers In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:19:27 +0200." <199708261319.PAA00281@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:25:23 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > make it $20-$40 for a soundcard. The OPTI931 has a street price of $20 > here in italy, and CS4236 (assuming you can find them) are little more > expensive. For conferencing purposes they are both more than ok > (Crystal much better since it is better documented and less buggy...) Well, it depends the clock they use and the quality of the analog parts. Conferencing is one thing however I think that you may want to use the soundcard for other things like playing back audio mpeg files. By far most PC soundcards fall short on the clock part . Interestingly, the old sparcs used to have a a cs4231 and the accuracy of their dsp subsystem has always been better than your typical PC soundcard -- the primary difference from an accuracy stand point of view is just the clock part. Regards, Amancio