Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 02:07:12 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any cards that work? Message-ID: <199802121007.CAA02288@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:29:04 %2B0100." <199802120829.JAA19017@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Most people don't care about spending the $$ for a quality sound card and honestly I don't can't blame them. You are right that comp.sys.soundcard... news group is not necessarily a good source however comp.speech is a good source to see what works with speech recognition -- i.e., good quality and low noise. About the VIBES stuff it just a heads up of what is coming our way and hopefully soon. Turtle Beach usually makes good sound cards and they can go from anywhere from $100 to $300 . With respect to quality on sound cards the primary target areas where sound manufacturers usually skim on are the analog components and the crystals. In certain cases the codec chipset is not up to the job like the original SB16 chipset at least with respect to full-duplex 16 bit audio . My Lab, oops , my aparment is usually very quiet and having a nice stereo kind of spoils me with respect to sound quality. Cheers, Amancio > > The problem that I have with CS42xx low end cards is that they > > are cheap and noisy but hey I am pretty sure that the low > > quality does not bother some ( I am not been sarcastic). > > You know when you are getting mbone audio with >20% loss, or share > the office with 3 other people and a total of 8 PCs with fans, who > cares about noise from the card :) > > In any case you are very right, and some cards are noisier than others. > I cannot really say (even judging from postings on > comp.sys.soundcard.mine.is.better.than.yours) that price and quality are > really related. Since > most noise comes from poorly designed analog > circuitry/power supply decoupling etc. on the card, it's not even the > codec, or ISA vs PCI. I'm sure -- if you say that -- that Gus and > or your vibes cards are good quality ones, but i think you need to give > very specific brand names/models to give useful info. > > cheers > luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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