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Article #98609

Re: killer sound card???

#98609
From: jame...
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 00:00
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And you all are wasting your money.  Nothing uses Midi anymore so my SB16 
is all I will need forever ......  Everything uses digital audio 
nowadays.  And NO midi on ANY card sounds as good as just using Red Book 
audio on the CD.  Even mod files are way better than Midi......  So 
unless you compose music on a computer, bye bye Midi.....

Vadim V. Fuks (enco...@netvision.net.il) wrote:
: Acid Tripps wrote:
: > 
: > /zYko/ <gjgr...@online.no> wrote:
: > 
: > >Real Boba Fett wrote:
: > >>
: > >> Neil W. Roache wrote:
: > >> >
: > >> > I am looking to buy a new sound card and i have no clue about what is good
: > >> > on the market.  Any suggestions?  It would be for a 166 mhz pentium system.
: > >> >   I would like something high performance..
: > >> >
: > >> > thanks
: > >> > neil --
: > >> > nro...@erols.com
: > >>
: > >> Sound Blaster AWE64. But I have AWE32 and it is almost the same...
: > >> except the price! SB AWE32 is really better than 16. My friend has a
: > >> SB16 and I listen to his MIDIs: it is ugly! Then he listened to mine...
: > >> he tought they were WAVs!!!!
: > >
: > The Sound Blaster AWE32 is supposed to be the same as the AWE64..
: > only diff is the 512K built in memory on the AWE64 and some of the fancy software its packaged with
: > ...The AWE32 though..seems it could be loaded with RAM over 512K since you have to add it
: > yourself on the two available slots it has on the card...and at up to 65 less the cost of an AWE64
: Nonsence!
:   The best sound card is Gravis Ultrasound. I have GUS Max and it gives
: me  *PERFECT* sound quality. SB AWE sounds like a cheap sinthesiser
: against Steinwey Piano in comparsion with GUS. And I've heared rumors
: that GUS PnP works even better.
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From: jame...@imap1.asu.edu
Subject: Re: killer sound card???
Date: 1997/10/10
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