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From: EJH <eppo@cal050303.student.utwente.nl>
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Subject: Re: Which HiFi sound-card to by?
In-Reply-To: <99020704064700.11660@meb39.kings.cam.ac.uk> from Matthew Bloch at "Feb 7, 99 04:05:33 am"
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Well, not that it is of much use to the original question, but still, one of
the best soundcards ever made are the GUS classic and GUS Max.  Sound from a
pc will always be like 'as-good-as-it -gets' to me. 

But, from all boards, the GUS do relatively have very high sound-quality. 
Not too much noise, quite flat audio-spectrum, etc.

Being a student elektrical engineering, I see that the GUS are generally
speaking constructed to the rules of the game. (separate groundplanes for
analog and digital elektronics e.g.) Whereas boards like the SB do contain
this cheap output- buffer which were also used during my first year's
practicals. ;-) (I guess replacing this LM324 by something better would d
gtely improve the quality off many SB cards. But off course the design still
sucks, because the buffer-output is a-symmetric and needs a capacitor in the
output-line.)

Greetz,
	EJ

