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Web site with sound card SNR stats?

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First post, by valnar

Posted on 2013-11-06, 18:42

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It's been over 10 years, but I recall finding a web site that listed all sorts of (mostly ISA) sound cards and their signal-to-noise ratios. The site also had subjectively labeled each one fair, good, excellent, etc. It was fairly well done at the time, but IIRC would be a pretty archaic layout by today's standards.

I can't find it out now for the life of me, nor do I know if it is even still up. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Reply 1 of 5, by jwt27

Posted on 2013-11-06, 18:46

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I've never heard of that, but I'd like to see it too!

Reply 2 of 5, by elianda

Posted on 2013-11-06, 18:51

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You speak of this one https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pcav … mpare/index.htm ?

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Reply 3 of 5, by valnar

Posted on 2013-11-06, 19:16

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I can't get to the archive right now, but yes, that is the one! I recognize the pcavtech.com domain.

Reply 4 of 5, by jwt27

Posted on 2013-11-06, 19:18

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I was just able to see that I need to get a LynxTwo. Then this happened:

The Internet Archive's sites are offline for scheduled maintenance and upgrades.

Please check our twitter feed @internetarchive for updates.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Anyway, I tried this RMAA program a while ago on a few cards, I think it's inaccurate and I wouldn't take it's data too literally, but as comparison tool it does the job:
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/3794/eya6.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img19/3512/30f4.png

If anything, it shows that SB cards have come a long way... Yet they still suck.

Reply 5 of 5, by valnar

Posted on 2013-11-06, 19:29

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Now that I have the domain-name pcavtech.com, I can find several references to it on Vogons. I guess it went away 4 years ago. 😢
Anybody capture an offline archive of that site, and the corresponding pages that went with it?

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