[mrlefty]

Arny,

Back in '97, I bought my first CD burner, a Mitsumi 2x unit. I was dubbing
my archive of DAT, rare vinyl, and other audio sources to CD, and I wasn't
happy with the line inputs on my soundcard.

I couldn't afford a Turtle Beach or other high end multichannel card after
dropping $300 on the Mitsumi Drive. From your benchmarks and testimonials
on the internet, I chose an Ensoniq Audio PCI card - and I was quite pleased
with the results - excellent bang for the buck.

These days I use my Yamaha AW16g for anything I want dubbed to CD - and stay
in the digital realm whenever possible.

As far as my PC goes, I'm using the built in sound on my ABIT motherboard.
It is fine for gaming, casual music listening, and web chat, but I wouldn't
trust it for anything near the high end.

I love my AW16g, but I was thinking about making my PC an audio workstation
again. I was wondering if you still benchmark audio gear for the PC. If
not, I'm sure you could point me in the right direction.

Will aka mrlefty

[Arny Krueger]

"mrlefty" wrote in message
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I love my AW16g, but I was thinking about making my PC an audio
workstation again. I was wondering if you still benchmark audio gear for
the PC. If not, I'm sure you could point me in the right direction.

www.pcavtech.com was built for a purpose back in the middle-1990s. The
purpose was to help people separate the wheat from chaff when it comes to
audio, particularly audio interfaces. Since about Y2K things have changed
lots. Even motherboard audio interfaces can be useful for higher quality
audio work.

People don't need me to develop technical reports sound cards - the Audio
Rightmark program has enabled a large number of people to benchmark their
own cards, and post their results on the web. Please see the RMA 5.5 program
(freeware).

http://audio.rightmark.org/download.shtml

If you are interested in a technical report related to a certain audio
interface, try goggling for "name of audio interface" + rightmark.

What audio interfaces do I use today? I have a portable 2-channel location
recorder based on a M-Audio AP 24/192 and a fixed on-location multichannel
location recorder based on a collection of M-Audio Delta 1010 and 1010LT
audio interfaces.