18 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-multimediaRe: FAQ: best currently supported sou...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Luigi Rizzo | Aug 31, 1998 11:54 am | |
| Roland Jesse | Aug 31, 1998 12:29 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Sep 1, 1998 7:41 am | |
| Luigi Rizzo | Sep 1, 1998 8:25 am | |
| David Kelly | Sep 1, 1998 8:48 am | |
| George Rachor | Sep 1, 1998 10:05 am | |
| Luigi Rizzo | Sep 1, 1998 12:33 pm | |
| David Kelly | Sep 1, 1998 12:59 pm | |
| David Kelly | Sep 1, 1998 2:44 pm | |
| Mikael Karpberg | Sep 1, 1998 3:06 pm | |
| Oliver Fromme | Sep 1, 1998 3:51 pm | |
| Luigi Rizzo | Sep 1, 1998 7:34 pm | |
| Luigi Rizzo | Sep 1, 1998 7:36 pm | |
| Luigi Rizzo | Sep 1, 1998 7:38 pm | |
| Mikael Karpberg | Sep 2, 1998 2:19 am | |
| Roger Hardiman | Sep 2, 1998 2:26 am | |
| Luigi Rizzo | Oct 27, 1998 11:45 pm | |
| Denis DeLaRoca | Oct 28, 1998 1:33 am |
| Subject: | Re: FAQ: best currently supported sound card? | |
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| From: | Oliver Fromme (ol...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) | |
| Date: | Sep 1, 1998 7:41:54 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-multimedia | |
Roland Jesse wrote in list.freebsd-multimedia:
I searched the mailinglist archieves. The result comes basically down to: Get a Soundblaster - a real one, not a clone.
But there are even quite a bunch of Soundblasters out there, like the AWE 64 Gold/Value, Soundblaster 16, Soundblaster 32, ...
Any recommendations are very much appreciated.
If you need full duplex (e.g. for audio conferencing), then follow Luigi's advice in this thread. Do not buy a SoundBlaster card.
Otherwise, if you want a soundcard for high quality audio (e.g. mp3 playback), get an AWE64 Gold or Value. The latter is available for about 60$. Such an AWE64 is doing a _great_ job in my mp3 player box.
Of course there are also professional cards which are much more expensive, useful for professional musicians or serious harddisk recording and things like that, but I'm afraid you won't be able to do that kind of things under FreeBSD.
DO NOT buy an SB16, Vibra16, SB32 or any older cards from Creative Labs or clones of such cards. They have lousy DACs/preamps. Their frequency response and S/N ratio is miles away from anything called "hifi". They might be OK for games, though. ;-)
Regards Oliver
-- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:ol...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
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