Re: [digitalradio] Understanding soundcard basics ?

2009-09-23 Thread Patrick Lindecker
signal is very low (your real dynamic being bad, even if it is supposed to sample on 16 bits). 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: obrienaj andrewob...@gmail.com To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:01 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Understanding

[digitalradio] Understanding soundcard basics ?

2009-09-22 Thread obrienaj
From what I have read in the past, there is a difference between inexpensive sound cards and the high quality ones. I recall past articles that suggest the high quality ones can result in some very weak signals being detectable in a waterfall, whereas cheap cards may not reproduce the signal.

RE: [digitalradio] Understanding soundcard basics ?

2009-09-22 Thread r_lwesterfield
: [digitalradio] Understanding soundcard basics ? From what I have read in the past, there is a difference between inexpensive sound cards and the high quality ones. I recall past articles that suggest the high quality ones can result in some very weak signals being detectable in a waterfall, whereas

Re: [digitalradio] Understanding soundcard basics ?

2009-09-22 Thread Josh Gibbs
This is a topic I am also interested in. I have a box full of sound cards (and several systems with internal sound), and I have tested several of them using the 'Sound Card Sample Rate Checker' that is included with MixW (aka CheckSR.exe). This program checks the sound card against the computer