[RTTY] Sound Card Testing

[t3]

tnks for all the help guys.. im going to scan all the past messages,
i just could not remember who did it the testing..
im going to look for a Turtle beach, maby my local Circuit City has one..

73 -
Tony
NN1D


Robert McGwier wrote:

>The cards above the "Gold level" in that table are professional audio 
>cards with the associated price tag.  The Turtle beach is at the top of 
>the list of  "consumer" cards.  You do not need 113 dB of dynamic range 
>for amateur sound card applications (not SDR but TTY programs) so why 
>would anyone doing TTY spend $2500 on the Lynx Two?
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>Those cards above the gold line get their performance in these tests 
>because they are 24 bit sound cards.  Most sound card programs doing TTY 
>(all of them?) open the cards using directX or
>MME (not WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE) and this limits them to 16 bits.  You 
>then get the same noise floor and dynamic range as the Turtle Beach.  
>The Turtle beach is not perfect but it is a great buy at its current price.
>
>Bob McGwier
>N4HY
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>Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
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>>--- Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On 7/25/05, Alex, VE3NEA <alshovk at dxatlas.com> wrote:
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>>>>Tony,
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>>>>A fairly good sound card comparison table is here:
>>>>http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/index.htm
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>>>Doesn't seem to be ham-radio focused ...  
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>>Bob McGuire (N4-something) did some testing a year or two ago and concluded
>>that the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz was the best.  It's pretty high on the
>>pcavtech list as well.  Search the archives.
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>>- Jim
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>>Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
>>USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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