22 May
2011
22 May
'11
1:52 a.m.
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 20:34 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 02:37:25PM +0200, Ralf wrote:
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.
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,