On 4/8/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A friend of a friend started an audiophile speaker company, just because of the margins. ... Apparently everybody is happy with this arrangement, including the customers.
I've encountered plenty of "audiophiles" who appeared to care more about chest-thumping and elitism than anything else, so I suspect you're right on the money there -- literally. Those types feel that by spending truly frightening amounts of money on their equipment, they're that much better than the likes of a poor unsophisticated "consumer" like me. ~shrug~ I will say that some of the analysis I have seen against Bose's stuff has appeared to be missing the point of said stuff. One of the things Bose does is sell a "system" to people who want something small, simple and integrated. I have seen analyses which criticized the individual performance of the pieces (e.g., the satellites), but never looked at the whole. That is not using it the product as it was intended. Even the best screw driver in the world makes a really lousy wrench...
Coming back around, I'm wondering what kind of sound I'm actually going to get from my MythTV box, with the integrated sound card.
The near-universal problem with on-board audio is that it tends to pick up all the ambient electrical noise inside the case. My PowerEdge 380 has some sort of Intel "high definition" uber-audio, but it really doesn't matter how magic the codec is, because the output circuitry picks up my display and disk activity, too. I can actually hear windows dragging. :) That appears to be one of the major selling point for add-on audio cards -- they use better circuit design and are better isolated from system noise. So if you're limited to on-board audio due to space, digital output is likely to make a difference there. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
