[plug] ESS Audio Card and Real Encoder

[Beau Kuiper]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
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> > I understood that the 32/64/... were the number of bits; eg SB128 was a
> > 128 bit sound card, suitable for very high fidelity, digital sound.
> 
> That's a very misconception, but I guess it's because it's a marketing
> thing - make a big fanfare about how the SB16 is 16bit sound, and then
> start advertising a SB32 etc and say nothing about the fact it's still
> only 16 bits
> 
> anyway, I upgraded my SB16 to a SB128 PCI, decided the sound quality was
> actually _worse_, so sold that too, and bought another SB16.
> 
> A SBLiVE would be nice though

sblive is very nice :-) Makes me want better speakers all the time. You
can get OEM versions of the sblive value fairly cheaply ($120 or less). 
They work fine under linux.

Beau Kuiperba
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

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>  - Matt(Lies, Damn Lies and Marketing)
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