> Through a cheesy little earbud, I doubt you could tell the difference > between 8 and 16 bit anyway. Most people can tell 8 bit -> 16 bit. Some of the newer PCI soundcards on the market also do 20, 24, and 32 bit sampling. I can't tell 16 bit -> 20 bit. I can tell 16 bit -> 24 bit for _some_ content, but not all. Some of the them also do 96 KHz sampling, but why I'm not sure why. I can't tell 48 KHz -> 96 KHz. What bothers me more is that some of the older cards had sampling/playback rates off by as much as 3%, especially at lower sampling rates (8 KHz). Things sampled on such a card played back fine on the same card, but import/export source from/to somewhere else and there was a definate frequency shift you could really hear. This also wrecks havok with realtime multimedia streaming applications. Anyone know a cheap circuit to use a soundcard as an o-scope? I don't mind frying a $20 soundcard, but I do mind paying several hundred (or even thousand) for a decent scope. --Adam -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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