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[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:07:36AM +0100, Gabucino wrote:
> > while the MASTER is an analog control. This means that when lowering the PCM
> > sound level the SNR is lowered. If one then compensates by increasing the
> > MASTER level the result is a output signal with poor dynamic range combined
> > with the noise created by the crappy amplifier on the sound card.
> Then why some cards have distortion when PCM is maxed out?
> BTW I'm not an audiophil at all, as you may have guessed :)

My guess is that on some soundcards, PCM is a digital control with
some default value (75?) being no change, and greater values
amplifying the samples digitally (=horrible distortion). However, I
imagine all of this varies from card to card... I don't see any reason
that PCM should be digital on all cards....

Rich