First post, by adalbert
I just bought ES1688s Audiodrive card, because my ES1879s was probably damaged a bit and not working in SE version of Windows 98. ES1688s works fine, but I noticed that sound quality is a lot worse than the previous card! When it played Windows Welcome screen music, i expected some massive bass to kick in, but it sounded like laptop speakers... but I was playing that on my 2.0 6,5 inch audio monitors. I recorded the output with firewire audio interface and attached that. That card uses TEA2025B amplifier, the same like in ES1879s, but the sound is really flat... should that sound like this, or is it a problem with the sound chip, amplifier (maybe it's counterfeit?), or caps?
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