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Re: On-board Sound Card
From: gabjsmo0@gmail.com (gjsmo)
On Sep 8, 5:54 pm, mcp6453 <mcp6...@gmail.com> wrote:
While I use a CarDeluxe and an M-Audio DIO-2448 on my two primary computers, I
have sound on each computer for non-critical applications. My primary work
computer is one that uses the on-board Intel/Soundmax card through a decent set
of PC speakers. While listening to some FLAC files of songs from the early 70s,
I noticed what sounded like tape hiss. Long story short, upon investigation, I
determined that the hiss is actually some sort of digital crap coming from the
card. It's pretty constant.
Of course no one has ever suggested that the on-board sound cards were even
respectable, but I have never before heard a problem like this one that makes
the card virtually unusable even for non-critical listening. Thinking maybe the
the card was bad, I tried a couple of other computers here that I never use the
sound. Same issue. These on-board audio cards are REALLY bad.
To solve the problem, I hooked up my Griffin iMic as an output device. The
difference is night and day. I'll probably go ahead and get another DIO-2496 or
at least install a Creative Audigy that's in a box around here somewhere.
This sounds a bit like the thing with video cards and how the on-board
ones are always crap. But I'm wondering how bad it really is. Mine
sounds fine, though admittedly it's only a set of JBL's (not anything
expensive). I'm wondering if the sound card's "hiss" could be getting
picked up from various PCB paths on the motherboard. Because I'm not
really sure an iMic would be so much better.
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