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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: 16 bit audio (was Re: The March Amiga?)
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 08:07:46 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4e4pci$rh9@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4d8rsh$tp4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4d9qki$g2r@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4dm0i6$cbi@news.jhu.edu>
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- Summary: More components = more interference
- Keywords: See what happens when you trim the edges
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- In article <4dm0i6$cbi@news.jhu.edu>,
- Zsolt Szabo <robodude@deanwong.rad.jhu.edu> wrote:
- >In article <4d9qki$g2r@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- >George Noel <gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >
- >>Have you even heard 16 bit audio yet? There IS a noticeable differences
- >>and with it being on the motherboard of the Power Amiga or A1200, it
- >>would be much more better then on the PCs as it would crack down on the
- >>noise generated on the PC from the sound having to pass through so many
- >>components!
- >
- >That has nothing to do with the degradation of PC audio quality. What (used
- >to) degrade PC audio quality was the fact that most audio cards used to be
- >unshielded and picked up a lot of noise from the equally unshielded
- >power supply. However, the more recent PC soundcards no longer exhibit
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- This was what I was referring to above with the "noise" comment -
- interference from other components before it passed through the speaker.
- Thanks for the better wording.
-
- -=*George*=-
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