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Re: On-board Sound Card
From: arnyk@hotpop.com (Arny Krueger)
"Jay Ts" <bitbucket@example.com> wrote in message
news:dvcio.52277$D34.36577@unlimited.newshosting.com
Consider for a second that the particular on-board
interface is not exactly SOTA, even among on-board audio
interfaces. Soundmaxes are usually not *that* bad. It
could be a bad sample or it could be a bad
implementation by the system board maker.
I think most likely the last. I have an old Toshiba
laptop with Avance AC97 Audio built-in. It also suffers
from noise similar to what the OP described. "Tape hiss"
describes it pretty well.
I have some experiences with Avance audio chips on PCI cards. Most of these
are built using the chip vendor's reference design. It was among the
noisiest audio interfaces I've ever heard. Maybe 55 dB dynamic range if you
optimized the level settings. Shortly after this Avance was bought out by
Realtek, who are pretty sharp. The next generation parts were branded
Realtek, and they were at least halfways decent.
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