gerwin wrote:This is a nice primer on the subject, ranging 1981-1995:
Phonomenal! ... a retrospective view on sound card history
Though most talk and feelings are about the well known cards, there are very capable clones too. Like from ESS, Yamaha and Crystal.
Wow, I just read this - It's interesting, my father is an audiophile (who at age 70 knows how to convert tapes to MP3 using Audacity to a good level of sophistication on an older P4 3.0 that I built him for that task, using inputs from a Yamaha KX-230) but never embraced the digital era. In fact, we got our first computer, which was a Compaq Deskpro 386e (read : a POS) with 640K RAM. I sold that thing quick and got another machine, a true DX, which I promptly added more RAM to and made the speed quicker on. Then I added a good video card and purchased larger, higher resolution, and smaller dot-pitch monitors for, completely negating the sound.
Wow
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