2 years ago when I got hit by lightening and had to replace everything I got
a Dell computer with built-in sound. It was a bad idea. None of my sound
related apps worked very well and 'on-the-fly' recordings didn't sound good.
I ordered a Sound Blaster card and everything is back to normal here. I
think built-in sound is a real compromise.
73
MAL
N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Rosenberg
To: cq-contest@contesting.com ; writelog@contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 18:01
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Quality of Sound Cards?
When I upgraded the shack computer from a P3 to a P4 (a 1.6 GHz IBM
NetVista), I didn't swap the (Soundblaster 16 PCI) sound card. Instead I am
using the one built-in to the new computer.
My station is a HEil Proset feeding an Orion. I use Writelog.
I made a "recording on the fly" through the during the contest last
weekend, and the results were sub-par, certainly when compared to the
recording I made directly into the radio.
My questions:
- Is this a software configuration (i.e., how Writelog records) issue?
- Will the old sound card back sound better than the built-in one (i.e.,
are there greater and lesser than equal sound cards)? If so, is the Audio
Delta 44 Audio Card ($159) that the SDR-1000 uses worth the investment?
73 & Thanks,
Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC
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