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From: Tomasz Nidecki tonid@elektron.pl
Subject: Re: AD516 quality - bullshit
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 97 19:56:00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio

Yoadie yo ho !!!

Based on a message from Kenny to ,

 K> In the professional business this doesn't matter that much. The AD516
 K> delivers superb sound even if it's old. Just look at the Betacam SP pro.

It so happens that due to the fact that both AD516 and most other cards on 
the market have the same Codec, their quality of sound, signal to noise 
ration, etc. are pretty much the same as the AD516's...

 K> video systems. It's old as in old, but it's still used since it's superb
 K> (just to compare -- and they are actually comparable on each its
 K> fields).

Agreed. However, there is no equal, but newer, thing to the Betacam 
video and cheaper to use... There are cards for the Amiga with AD516 
capabilities and much lower pricing.

 K> We have new DAW packages yes, but just because they are new doesn't
 K> necessarly mean they are better.

But it does not mean that they are worse.

 >> You know there was a time when ECS was the best graphics on the whole
 >> computer market in the world :) But is it now?
 K> You don't need AGA to do sound editing :) Hope you understood my point:

I don't think you understood my comparison at all...

 K> you don't need the latest to do good sound editing if the old is still
 K> good and even better than most of the new things anyway. I see a

Still good - yes, better than most of the new things - wrong.

 K> competitor in the new Delphina Pro card though, but it depends on how
 K> good a DAW will be for this card (if any).

AudioLab16 is a professional piece of software now available for many 
other platforms...

One thing that makes me wonder - many people praise AD516 here, and 
they say it's much better than the new stuff... But I bet they never 
even tried the new stuff or bothered to find out about it. If so, they 
would have exactly pinpointed WHY they think AD is better than other 
cards. It's just like I was saying that a Trabant is much better than 
the Renault Clio because I used a Trabant for many years and it's good, 
but I've never even sat inside a Clio. This makes me wonder of the 
professionalism of such observations :-|.

Very soon I will have full access to an AD516 and I will very carefully 
test it against the Delfina board. I've already done that with the Toccata and 
Delfina definitely wins in all aspects. If someone still wants to compare, 
make sure you're not influenced by the fact you used the old card for many 
years and never even bothered to try out the new one...

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