In an upcoming article I am writing which was solicited by
the editors of QST, I rate the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz the
"best" 16 bit sound card for amateur radio applications.
As always, "best" needs to be defined but your guru told
you right.
Bob McGwier
N4HY
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From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of FireBrick
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:34 AM
To: Writelog List
Subject: [WriteLog] second sound card and some issues
Been experimenting with the new Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card.
I'm pretty sure it's a 'cleaner' card. Less noise than the
motherboard NVIDIA sound system or my previous Creative card.
I found some things.
If you want the card to be the DEFAULT sound card.
You go to the Control Panel, Sound & Audio devices.
Go to the Audio tab and select the new sound card as the default.
This will now make it device -1 in the MMTTY Misc tab.
I would also go to the Writelog Sound Mixer Level Control applet and select
the new card
as the default.
Took me a while to figure out why I couldn't adjust the Line In level.
The new card has a higher amplification and I needed to turn down the input
level.
This sound card is a 16bit but has 18bit AD converters which I'm told by a
well known RTTY
sound guru is why I'm seeing a bit cleaner display and a bit better decoding
(hopefully).
Your mileage may vary, don't shoot, flame, or throw rocks at me.
My wife fulfills that role nicely.
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Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control.
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Bill H. in Chicagoland
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