Alan K2WS demonstrated the horrendous broadband noise coming from a very expensive Audigy 2ZS card by using the spectrum display of his IC-7800 http://www.n9vv.com/K2WS.html He dumped the Audigy and bought a nice Delta-66 that has continued to delivery great performance and a clean TX signal. de ken n9vv
Philip Covington wrote: > On 5/19/06, Peter Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >From G3PLX: >> >> Thanks for the pointer Phil. I guess hpsdr.org might be an interesting place >> to browse anyway, but maybe I didn't make my point clear. I am not >> complaining that the Firebox I have is NBG, I am wondering if anyone has >> done any tests which establish whether 24 bit audio gives a better radio >> than 16-bit audio. OK, I can accept that a good quality soundcard will >> probably give better results than a cheapo, and the good ones may well be >> 24-bit while the cheap ones are 16-bit, but has anyone ever masked off the >> bottom 8 bits of a good 24-bit card and detected the difference? >> >> 73 >> Peter > > Hi Peter, > > Have you looked at how many bits are noise free on a good 16 bit card? > > 73 de Phil N8VB > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com