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>From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo :
> Avoid the Soundblaster cards, as far as I know they have some stupid
> internal architecture so that full duplex operation requires to use
> 8-bit format on one channel and 16-bit format on the other one. This is
> painful for the driver to support, and gives much worse quality
> anyways. Beside the SB16 are more expensive than the CS4236.  The
> only reason I have bought one is to be able to test my code on it
> (the power of being a standard....)
> 

Great, Luigi, Jim Lowe and I are in perfect agreement!

The CS4231 which was also used on the Sparc workstations is a good
quality codec and from the report that I have been hearing from
Luigi the CS4236 is also a good choice.

	Cheers,
	Amancio