"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
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Today, for practically any purpose that I can imagine in
my home shop, the audio output on my PC sound card
rules.

Most PC sound cards vastly outperform legacy audio
signal generators, both for low distortion and flatness.
They also have excellent settling times.

A decent voltmeter tells me the output level.

The trick is finding an inexpensive one with good
frequency response. My best meters are Flukes (not
cheap) or the ProTek 506 (flat enough but not wonderful
and still not exactly cheap).

No Arny, the trick is to ante up once and buy a good one
from a first or at least second tier manufacturer whose
specs well eclipse the job at hand.

Given that I mentioned a first tier vendor (apparently you never heard of
Fluke, Brat) I've got your "buy a good one" covered. Given that I mentioned
ProTek (apparently you never heard of them, either) I've got the lower tiers
covered as well.

BTW Brat, for your future reference, here's some much-needed info for you
about who Fluke is:

http://www.fluke.com/