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Commented Oct 8, 2012 on The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment at Coding Horror
The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment
Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Although I'd extend that line of thinking to DVDs as well. The death of physical media has some definite downsides, but after owning certain movies once on VHS, then on DVD, and ...
I am not a musician, nor an audiophile. I do, however, record vinyl from time to time, and I bought a little keyboard synth to play around with. Even audio-troglodyte moi noticed appalling quality of line in on an Intel "HD" onboard sound card.
I dug a 13 year old SB Live! out of storage and tried that -- *infinitely better*.
Speaking of noise, it's a shame to see the signal-to-noise ratio of facts in these comments tending towards the nonsense :(
Commented May 11, 2011 on Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway? at Coding Horror
Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway?
The last sound card I purchased was in 2006, and that's only because I'm (occasionally) a bleeding edge PC gamer. The very same card was still in my current PC until a few days ago. It's perhaps too generous to describe PC sound hardware as stagnant; it's borderline irrelevant. The default, bu...
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