Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:59:31 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 -- good choice? Message-ID: <199812140159.CAA03367@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199812140008.SAA60153@n4hhe.ampr.org> from "David Kelly" at Dec 13, 98 06:07:45 pm
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> 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
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