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Date:      Wed, 03 Sep 1997 02:09:27 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies), multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Opti 931 
Message-ID:  <199709030909.CAA00375@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Sep 1997 08:25:03 %2B0200." <199709030625.IAA07228@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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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





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