Reply 45100 of 53280, by appiah4
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HanJammer wrote on 2022-06-13, 08:54:Some cards I bought through the last month. ESS Maestro-1 is especially cool. I owned one back in the 90s (and I still have it). These were among first PCI sound cards.
I never dipped my toe into Maestro and Allegro chipsets; I never owned one in the day and lack of an integrated FM Synth kind of killed my desire to get one once I got into retrocomputing.
That said, I am a big fan of CS4624/4630 sound cards. I always wanted a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz back in the day (have one now) and owned a Terratec DMX XFire 1024 which I really loved (still own two of those 🤣). Comparing a quality card with Maestro/Allegro chipsets with CS4624/4630 could be fun I guess.
I'll keep my eyes open for these 😁
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