Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:32:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which sound card ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970103183150.11231M-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970103150216.1289D-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au>
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On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Anthony Hill wrote: > > I am looking at getting a new system which will be running FreeBSD as its > primary OS, and I am wondering which sound card I should get. > > It should be noted that cost is a consideration, and nor am I a hacker. > (I'm going to need this thing to pretty much "just work") > > I would be interested in using it for basic recording and playback. (a > few .au and .wav files, and with the MBONE tools. (VAT, NV etc.) > > I seem to hear "bad things" about most of the popular cards. I am using > the soundblaster16 at the moment. This has been pretty good (I only ever > need to use 1/2 duplex for VAT). However last time I looked, it seemed as > though the most recent versions of VAT had dropped SB-16 support. The GUS is the way to go if you are even getting near vat. The audio quality is very good vs. sb16 and variants. WE just had this discussion -- see the multimedia archives. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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