Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:38:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Soundcard recommendations Message-ID: <199806011238.OAA03031@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19980601122024.25677@iii.co.uk> from "nik@iii.co.uk" at Jun 1, 98 12:20:05 pm
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> How do, > > I'm shortly going to have some money to burn, and I'm looking at getting a > soundcard. > > What would people recommend? I plan on using it mostly as part of my home > answerphone setup (courtesy Amancio's page), but I'll also be putting my > CD Audio (and BT848 TV card) output through it. my personal suggestion is for cards based on the CS4237 (e.g. A/Open AW35) or Yamaha OPL/SAx chipsets. Both are reasonably cheap and work very well with the "pcm" driver in full duplex. If you are really unable to find them, cards using the OPTI931 can do the job (lower quality, lower price). I'd avoid ESS and CreativeLabs (SB16 etc.) stuff: the former are not well supported by freebsd driver although there is documentation around. The latter are more expensive than anything else, have a very bad internal architecture and no (decent) documentation available. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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