Another PC Oddity
"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
On 5/16/2011 12:55 PM, Peter Larsen wrote:
Crap XP audio drivers, down to W2K servicepack 4 or up
to vista. There seems to be some kind of geas on
Microsoft to always break audio whenever they update
anything.
Vent if you want, but when it works, it's fine, and it
works most of the time, and I can always "fix" it by
restarting Windows (don't even need a hard restart).
I never use the sound card (or the computer, for that
matter) for serious recording. Most of the time it's next
to the couch so I don't have to get up if I want to
search the Web to get more info about something I've just
read in the newspaper, or check the TV listings. But now
and then there'll be some audio playback involved, and
sometimes it's there and other times it isn't.
I hibernate my studio computer all the time, too, and
that one normally uses a Lynx L22, not the motherboard
sound card. It's always there when I start it from
hibernation.
Lynx's drivers have always been first-rate. Hardware ain't bad, either. ;-)
I would say though that their exploitation for SOTA converter chips is a bit
in arrears. For the prices they get, they could probably have a 130 dB+
board on the market.
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