Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14352 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2002 09:35:21 -0000 Received: from warrior.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.227) by mailstore with SMTP; 23 Jul 2002 09:35:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 16448 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2002 09:34:22 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by warrior.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 23 Jul 2002 09:34:22 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SQ: A Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Wvtm-0004FQ-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:24:06 +0100 Received: from d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com ([195.212.91.199]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Wvtl-0004FI-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:24:05 +0100 Received: from d12relay02.de.ibm.com (d12relay02.de.ibm.com [9.165.215.23]) by d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6N9NSfh010768 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:23:33 +0200 Received: from usa.net (ss1.bld.socks.ibm.com [9.14.4.66]) by d12relay02.de.ibm.com (8.11.1m3/NCO/VER6.2) with ESMTP id g6N9NPb108594 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:23:26 +0200 Message-ID: <3D3D203C.2358E174@usa.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:22:04 +0200 From: "Alberto di Bene" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: Re: Sound Cards References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020722224253.009efa70@pop.erols.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Nan and Sandy Sanders wrote: > I have a question? How important is the sound card to the operation of > DSP software (Argo etc). I think we have proved that almost any card will > work but would we gain any thing by buying a card with a better signal to > noise ratio or better dynamic range? My opinion is that SNR is relevant for music and pseudo HiFi applications. When you use a PC sound card to digitize an audio signal coming from a receiver, the band noise is orders of magnitude greater than the residual card-induced noise. But I may be wrong... 73 Alberto I2PHD