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From: "Mark Cahill" <mark@...>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 at 7:15:59 AM
Subject: Re: [LAM] About to purchase an M-Audio audiophile 2496, seeking user comments.
Message #145398
roman pirie wrote: >I have a B&W G3/350 running LAMG 5.5. I want 2 channels of quality >24bit/44.1 audio I/O. Is this card working well for you guys? What is the >verdict on the sound quality? >Thanks. Hi Roman I always have a problem matching up 24bit with onboard converters on an audio card. In my experience, having the converters mounted on the card (i.e. in the computer case) means that they are picking up so much electronic "noise" form the various components that the theoretical 24 bits of resolution are in effect probably down at 12 bits or even less before you hit the noise floor generated by the computer. Obviously, this flies in the face of the bulk of sound cards out there, but, having worked both with internal AD cards (AW8 and DSP factory) as well as external dedicated AD converters, IMHO, the difference is MAJOR. Especially if you have a quality signal path prior to your AD (good mic, good preamp, usually meaning having spent a lot of money - did you post some time ago about owning a TLM 103?9 then you owe it to yourself to be very picky about the type of AD conversion you have HTH Kind regards Mark Cahill
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