On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 20:34 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 02:37:25PM +0200, Ralf wrote: > > > It's important that the analog IOs and converters etc. keep the sound > > without audible loss, similar to consumer equipment, that is not the > > most worse. Professional sound quality isn't needed, but my TerraTec EWX > > 24/96 or similar Envy24 cards and all those onboard devices I ever > > heard, don't reach good consumer quality, they produce marked loss for > > the sound quality. > > Please, please, at least try to be a bit informed before writing. > Audio quality is determined by the AD and DA converters and their > clocks, not by any digital interface circuits such as the Envy24. > > My Envy24 based Terratec (from the time that firm still produced > interesting stuff) is actually among the best I ever measured. > And it sounds *much* better than most 'consumer' cards I've ever > seen. > > Ciao, >
Pardon, you're right, but very often less expensive and less good sound cards do use an Envy24 chip. The converters and op-amps could cause bad sound. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
