Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:30:16 +0000
From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: snd_envy24{,ht} recording support?
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 08:52 +0100, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:19:59 +0100 >> David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The need for high end add >> in sound cards is much lower than 10 years ago. > > That's not true, if you want to replace your HiFi gear by a computer, > you need a good sound card too, that anyway, will be less expensive than > good HiFi gear. _All_ on-board devices are crap! Well, digital data either works without corruption or doesn't work. You can spend as much money on a sound card as you like, but if the sound card is only outputting digital data over SPDIF to a separate DAC, then there is no difference between the cheapest card and the most expensive card, both would sound identical. Cheers Tom
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