Usenet Newsgroups Re: On-board Sound Card From: bitbucket@example.com (Jay Ts) Arny Krueger wrote: "mcp6453" <mcp6453@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. Consider for a second that the particular on-board interface is not exactly SOTA, even among on-board audio interfaces. Soundmaxes are Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 usually not *that* bad. It could be a bad sample or it could be a bad Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 implementation by the system board maker. 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It also suffers from noise similar to Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 what the OP described. "Tape hiss" describes it pretty well. 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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13   Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 The easy fix is a Behringer UCA  202 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 Or something like it. I used an M-Audio Transit USB interface. 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