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- From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: SS10 Speakerbox sound quality
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.215432.2891@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:54:32 GMT
- References: <1jki8cINNq1i@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <1jki8cINNq1i@manuel.anu.edu.au> jaa101@gorton.anu.edu.au (James Ashton) writes:
- >
- > [...] What's the point of doing CD quality sound with such a noisy
- >analogue section? Do we have a dud or does everyone see the same
- >thing? The specs for the audio don't provide any noise figures which
- >is a concern. They do give THD (total harmonic distortion) as 5% from
- >the speaker and 0.5% from the line out. I'm not audiophile enough to
- >have a feel for those figures but I think we get to complain to Sun
- >about the quality. Any other experiences or comments appreciated...
-
- You should definitely complain to Sun. It isn't just a sample defect.
-
- We currently have 6 speakerboxes, and they are all very noisy, even more
- so than the AMD codec in the SS-2. Sun told us that "Rev 4" speakerboxes
- correct a problem with the power supply in the "Rev 3" units, but we
- haven't gotten our replacements yet.
-
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- Dave Kemp dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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