Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:03:08 +0100
From: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org>
To: ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com
Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: snd_envy24{,ht} recording support?
Message-ID: <20130320170308.94b4cdb7e52d664279b4adcb@yamagi.org>
In-Reply-To: <1363779850.586.86.camel@archlinux>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:44:10 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > I don't like consumer SPDIF, but this is OT now, indeed I'm thinking of > analog IOs. > > So I'll rephrase my claim: Analog IOs and D/A, A/D converters of _all_ > on-board devices are crap! And that's the truth. One of the main reasons for me to buy an Envy24ht was the crappy quality of the AC97 onboard chips back then. But HDA is a lot better (I'm still able to hear a difference between the HDA in my current desktop and the Envy) and most people are just stupid endusers without any interest in hi-fi. For them HDA is good enough and because of that most affordable high end consumer soundcards vanished. But as you said, that's OT. So let's return to the topic. :) -- Homepage: www.yamagi.org XMPP: yamagi@yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB
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