On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > 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.
Well, _this_ difference everybody would here, but, well... Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski ------------------------------------------------------- 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
