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From: David Newman dan@cts.com
Subject: Re: What's The Best 16-Bit Sound Card
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 09:54:00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Gedel1 (gedel1@aol.com) wrote:
: The Soundstage is unproven for people to be calling it the best Amiga
: sound card.
It can easily be proven tpo have the best audio quality as it uses 20bit
A/D and D/A with 32 bit processing through out, and balanced +4dBu audio
support.
: At $1500 the price is out there.No SMPTE sync,No Midi sequencer
: connection.
That price tag is not "out there" for balance professional audio equipment.
The only equivilent in quality (although not quite as good) on the PCI bus
is the StudioCard by Antex retails for $1500. And this is without software.
As for no SMPTE, check out http://www.amagic.com/html/sound4.html and you
will see the lastest production rev of the SoundStage Pro. The top right
of the board has a socket for the SMPTE LTC option. SMPTE timecode chasing
for ProducerAUDIO will be available shortly. Of the two connectors on the
end, one DB15 is deadicated on timecode support.
: Maybe someone who has used it professionally can vouch for it,but I say
: the Sunrise AD516 would outperform it.
Sunrise software is pretty cool, but the board uses audio parts the industry
calls "Multimedia quality". The Crystal 4215 is only speced at 85dB S/N
(I doubt the Sunrise gets to 80dB S/N).
David Newman
dan@amagic.com
Applied Magic Inc.