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From: David Newman dan@cts.com
Subject: Re: AD516 quality - bullshit
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 97 23:29:00
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
: They do? They are lying. :) Sunrize has CS4215, ie. exactly the same codec=
: as current Delfina! CS4231 is slightly better even, so even Delfina DSP Li=
: te will have at least the same sound quality as AD516..
: Toccata and Prelude have CS4231, too.. It seems Crystal is dominating the=
: Amiga sound card market. :) Soundstage is the only board that has a really=
: high-end codec, it's a 20bits part.. I don't know, it might be Crystal chi=
: p too.
The SoundStage Pro uses separate D/As and A/Ds rather than a combined CODEC,
as the separate parts offer better performance. For the D/As we use two
Crystal4329s (see http://www.crystal.com/pub/da.htm) that have a S/N of
112dB. For the A/D I think it is 5390 with S/N at about 107dB or better.
Note: The non Pro vesion of the SoundStage that came out a year ago used
a CODEC like the Defina and Sunrize. It was the Crystal 4225 (the quad
channel version of the 4215). We wanted better quality than that.
David A Newman
dan@amagic.com
Applied Magic Inc
http://www.amagic.com