On Aug 6, 2015, at 14:51 49, Chuck <[email protected]> wrote:
> With onboard sound now universal, we are a select group that still needs > soundcards. I went in to a local computer retailer (name changed to protect the guilty) a few months ago to buy a basic ‘consumer-grade’ sound card. The sales clerk remarked that “you must have a *really old* system to be needing something like this!”. I replied that no, I just needed to add a second sound output. He looked at me as if I were from Mars. “You mean you can *do* that?! Why would anyone need to do such a thing?”. So yes, it does indeed appear that the “middle market” (aka “prosumer”) product space is collapsing, leaving us pretty much with just cheap-and-terrible onboard mobo audio devices or gad-awful expensive “pro” cards. Sad. Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
