From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 12 01:58:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA05976 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:58:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA05967 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA19017; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:29:04 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199802120829.JAA19017@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Any cards that work? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:29:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802120930.BAA02002@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Feb 12, 98 01:30:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The problem that I have with CS42xx low end cards is that they > are cheap and noisy but hey I am pretty sure that the low > quality does not bother some ( I am not been sarcastic). You know when you are getting mbone audio with >20% loss, or share the office with 3 other people and a total of 8 PCs with fans, who cares about noise from the card :) In any case you are very right, and some cards are noisier than others. I cannot really say (even judging from postings on comp.sys.soundcard.mine.is.better.than.yours) that price and quality are really related. Since most noise comes from poorly designed analog circuitry/power supply decoupling etc. on the card, it's not even the codec, or ISA vs PCI. I'm sure -- if you say that -- that Gus and or your vibes cards are good quality ones, but i think you need to give very specific brand names/models to give useful info. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message