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First post, by Amigaz

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Has anyone tried this card in pure DOS?
Have one and thinking of replacing my terrible sounding CT1740 Sound Blaster 16 with this card.

http://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/128iPCI/Images/1 … PCI_Board_L.jpg

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Reply 1 of 9, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Is it the same with Terratec DMX? If that's the case, then it's based on ESS Maestro chip. Further info can be found here.

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Reply 2 of 9, by Amigaz

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Full specs

http://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/128iPCI/Technica … /128iPCI_GB.pdf

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Reply 3 of 9, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

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Software. ESS AudioRack ESS Software Wavetable IBM VoiceType Control […]
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ESS AudioRack
ESS Software Wavetable
IBM VoiceType Control

Then I guess it's an ESS-based sound card. I'm not sure if it's ESS Maestro or not, but my expectations aren't that far from those of Ultima 7 Sound Card page.

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Reply 5 of 9, by Amigaz

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Going to give it a go then 😀

Anything is better than the old crap SB16 cards...

Maybe the wavetable header works in DOS too? 😁

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Reply 6 of 9, by keropi

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PCI in DOS is not a very good idea Amigaz, why you wanna replace the ISA SB16? you have some nice models there...

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Reply 7 of 9, by Amigaz

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keropi wrote:

PCI in DOS is not a very good idea Amigaz, why you wanna replace the ISA SB16? you have some nice models there...

PCI cards like the Diamond Monster MX200 & 300 SBPro mode sound very nice and after I started using a Terratec 16/96 Gold for SbPro compatability I'm very interested to hear how the ESS chip in this Terratex card will handle SBPro sound

If you asked me 2-3 years ago I would have been satisfied with the ols SB16's but after trying some other cards I realize how poor the slound quality is on the SB16 cards....what really annoys me are the clicks and pops that sometimes appear.

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Reply 8 of 9, by keropi

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have you tried any ESS based ISA vards? They are nice IIRC

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Reply 9 of 9, by Amigaz

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keropi wrote:

have you tried any ESS based ISA vards? They are nice IIRC

hmmm...have some spare one's...not sure if they have a wavetable header though

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