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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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