Alan K2WS demonstrated the horrendous broadband noise coming from a very
expensive Audigy 2ZS card by using the spectrum display of his IC-7800
http://www.n9vv.com/K2WS.html He dumped the Audigy and bought a
nice Delta-66 that has continued to delivery great performance and a
clean TX signal.
de ken n9vv
Philip Covington wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Peter Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >From G3PLX:
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer Phil. I guess hpsdr.org might be an interesting place
>> to browse anyway, but maybe I didn't make my point clear. I am not
>> complaining that the Firebox I have is NBG, I am wondering if anyone has
>> done any tests which establish whether 24 bit audio gives a better radio
>> than 16-bit audio. OK, I can accept that a good quality soundcard will
>> probably give better results than a cheapo, and the good ones may well be
>> 24-bit while the cheap ones are 16-bit, but has anyone ever masked off the
>> bottom 8 bits of a good 24-bit card and detected the difference?
>>
>> 73
>> Peter
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Have you looked at how many bits are noise free on a good 16 bit card?
>
> 73 de Phil N8VB
>
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