VOGONS


First post, by terryfi

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

Hello everyone,

I recently acquired an AZT2320 based ISA sound card picture below.

When testing the OPL3 the sound is perfect, however Sound Blaster digital sound has a vey awful quality.

I recorded some of Day of Tentacle intro attached. You can clearly hear a very pronounced noise in S consonant of "Nonsense!". In Phil's review of a similar card, he complains about sound quality but listening to his DOTT recording I don't hear same type of noise or as much noise as mine.

The board has quiet a few electrolytic capacitors, many of them connected directly to the chipset. Unfortunately, I could not find any datasheet or schematics for AZT2320 to see if any caps are used for digital sound filtering.

So my question is, has anyone else noticed same type of sound quality degradation? If this is an issue of the chipset itself, I really don't want to waste any capacitors or time on fixing this.

Reply 1 of 4, by dominusprog

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

You don't need the datasheet, just replace all of them with high quality caps.

Duke_2600.png
A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
Aztech Pro16 II-3D PnP ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!

Reply 2 of 4, by bimole

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

Hi terryfi,

Do you have a working driver for this sound card ?
I'm trying to use the one on Packard Bell Master CD but although the installation procedure seems to work, I only have loud clicks and noises...
I'm on Win95 OSR2.5, PIII 450MHz, 128MB RAM, 440BX motherboard

Thank you

Reply 3 of 4, by terryfi

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie
bimole wrote on 2024-06-30, 14:32:
Hi terryfi, […]
Show full quote

Hi terryfi,

Do you have a working driver for this sound card ?
I'm trying to use the one on Packard Bell Master CD but although the installation procedure seems to work, I only have loud clicks and noises...
I'm on Win95 OSR2.5, PIII 450MHz, 128MB RAM, 440BX motherboard

Thank you

I didn't use it in Windows. In dos used UNISOUND to initialize the card, dos drivers from VOGON didn't work for me.

Reply 4 of 4, by bimole

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

OK, I finally managed to make it work with Sound Galaxy Multimedia Pro 16 III PnP drivers from retronn.de https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_aztech_mm_pro16_iii.html.
Everything seems to go right except the software MIDI synthesizer that doesn't appear anywhere. FM synth and MPU-401 are the only MIDI devices available.
With Packard Bell drivers, it doesn't work anymore on my PIII machine. On my PI 166MMX, works like a charm... Maybe a hardware issue...