24 Feb
2002
24 Feb
'02
6:37 a.m.
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
For those of us who want high-fidelity, well, we have
to build our own
stuff,
because it won't work very well inside a computer
regardless how much it
costs.
This is simply not true. The M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card gives me
absolutely wonderful results, and I only paid $159 for it.
Glen
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8:51 a.m.
I think you'll find this depends more on your definition of "wonderful"
which
may be "acceptable" even to me, fussy as I am, but anything powered with the
PSU of a PC, even in its own enclosure, will not give signal-to-noise ratio
worthy of the designation "audiophile." You might get 20, or even 30 db, but
you should have at least 80 db and preferably 120 db of SNR and less PSU
feed-through than that. I've seen only one card that came anywhere close to
that and it was encased in a copper-plated steel shield and powered with a
battery that it charged when it wasn't in use. It was not a commercial unit.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Goodwin" <acme_ent(a)bellsouth.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: OT Vinyl to MP3
From: Richard
Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
For those of us who want high-fidelity, well, we
have to build our own
stuff,
because it won't work very well inside a
computer regardless how much it
costs.
This is simply not true. The M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card gives me
absolutely wonderful results, and I only paid $159 for it.
Glen
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