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Re: [ARSCLIST] Sound card recommendations
on 1/11/06 7:07 PM, Tom Fine at tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> You know, that recommendation is kind of strange. All or most of the first-gen
> professional converters were in-board cards, and they worked fine.
The problem is that there is a lot of noise floating around inside a
computer case . If the converter has any unbalanced circuitry this going to
introduce noise and degrade the performance of the ADC. The computer's power
supply will also add noise. While there are a few exceptions, most onboard
ADCs are worthless.
> Also, think of all the albums mastered on Macs with in-board cards and Sonic
> Solutions, although many places also used external converters and just brought
> digital into the box.
Actually Sonic DSP card did not have and ADC, it was dig only.
--
Konrad Strauss
Director of Recording Arts
Associate Professor of Music
Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University
http://php.indiana.edu/~kstrauss
http://www.music.indiana.edu/department/audio/