On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 21:19 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hi > > Just a practical curiousity question - it seems to me that audio recorded > from the line-in of an on-board es18xx ISA card has higher quality than on > an on-board too PCI VIA686? Is it expected, and is there an explanation? > Or just an accidental better electrical match with the audio-source - it's > a headphone output of an md-player, but the disc and volume were the same. > The software (apart from the driver, of course) is roughly the same - > Debian Sarge, 2.6.15.4 kernel.
I'm not surprised, vendors are under incredible pressure to "weed out inefficiencies" which in real life means "cutting corners". Hardware quality declines every year. The rationalization is that most people can't hear the difference and will only use the mic for VOIP anyway. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
