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to: BUD JAMISON
from: STEVE READ
date: 1998-05-10 18:42:00
subject: Sound Card Help

Hello Bud,
12 Apr 98 22:36, Bud Jamison wrote to Steve Read:
 BJ > I had a Yamaha OPL-3 based card, and it's not good with RealAudio 
unless 
 BJ > you lower the quality WAY down.
Walmart cut the price of one of the Creative Labs cards and I bought one.  
I'm not sure that $55 (including tax) was money well spent but it's nice 
having sound available.  I don't do too much listening to the "radio" because 
our ISP is pretty badly limited in bandwidth.
 BJ > I got the Ensoniq PCI card, and it works great with everything I've
 BJ > thrown at it.  RealAudio, playing audio CDs, Midids, wavs, recoding
 BJ > audio CDs to wav files then compressing them to .mp3 files, and a few
 BJ > other things I can't think of now.
This sounds pretty good but nobody around here seemed to know what it was and 
I didn't want to go mail-order when I really don't know that much yet.
 BJ > Oh yeah, price is usually under $40, here in San Diego it's under $30.
Definitely cheaper than what I paid and PCI to boot. :-(
Steve
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