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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
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Subject: Re: which sound card ?
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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