Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:43:17 +0000 From: Orion Hodson <O.Hodson@cs.ucl.ac.uk> To: dlm-fbmm@weaselfish.com Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best shielded/high s/n supported sound card? Message-ID: <20010106124303.57AE637B400@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 22:23:14 MST." <200101060523.f065NEh09521@green-dome.village.org>
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<200101060523.f065NEh09521@green-dome.village.org>dlm-fbmm@weaselfish.com write
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> So I'm picking up a fair amount of environmental noise with my
> semi-cheapo ES1371 sound card (things like high-frequency noise when
> an xterm scrolls; a different, continuous background HF noise; some 60
> Hz buzz, etc). Some of it, like the 60 Hz buzz, is almost certainly
> due to the cable run between the machine and the mixer. However, I
> strongly suspect that the HF problems are due to radiated energy
> within the machine's case. The ES1371 has pretty much no shielding,
> after all.
The linux audio-quality howto talks about this and related issues:
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/
- Orion
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