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Article #81Re: BEST SOUND CARD?!!]
From: st... donald TAKESHI mcfall
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 23:53
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 23:53
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In article <D1yIn...@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, wzh...@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Wayne) writes... >In article <D1x32...@freenet.carleton.ca>, >Andrew Smith <am...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote: >> >>In a previous posting, chris dale (ch...@winternet.com) writes: >>> Brandon Suzuki (be...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote: >>BTW, the GUS cards can do true 3D sound using Tech from Forte >>the makers of the VR helmet HMD VFX-1 >> >>Gravis Ultrasound MAX at least ... not sure if the old GUS has it. >> >> >> >>True 3D ... NOT QSound(SB) or Hughes SRS(Vivid/MediaVision) >> which are only Stereo Field Enhancers. >> >> >>Bye! >> >> >> >Perhaps you would like to explain "true" 3D with 2 speakers ? There is no >such thing. True 3D is only accomplished with Surround Sound, something whci is >NOT supported by the GUS. What the GUS does use us binormial Sound Enhancement. >I'm not too sure what it is, but I read it in the GUS SDK. This is also >a 2D stereo enhancement. To be honest, I don't know how well the GUS 3D effects >stack up but SRS has been around for a LONG time (5-10 years?) and has been >proven technology. Qsound has also been here for awhile but I haven't been >convinced by Qsound Well, the GUS may not have an on-board surround decoder, but it certainly can support surround sound... Hell, anything capable of stereo can. -Donald McFall st...@jetson.uh.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!rosie.uh.edu!st4pt From: st...@rosie.uh.edu (donald TAKESHI mcfall) Newsgroups: alt.games.quake Subject: Re: BEST SOUND CARD?!!] Date: 5 Jan 1995 23:53 CST Organization: University of Houston Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5JAN199523531024@rosie.uh.edu> References: <3efis6$sar@blackice.winternet.com> <D1vGuJ.C1B@freenet.carleton.ca> <D1x32u.Dux@freenet.carleton.ca> <D1yIny.Ht9@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit