| From: | neil |
| Date: | 5 Jul 2001 at 20:05:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Quality of Paula (was: Napster gone?) |
Hihi
On Thursday July 05 2001, Peter Gordon said to Don Cox:
>> That's why I asked if he had compared them on the same hi fi system. You
>> need suitable speakers.
PG> Paula's output @ 44khz, with carefully calibrated 14bit actually
PG> compares well against a £30 PC soundcard, in many respects. Its low
It can, in that Paula is always very accurate. This doesn't matter too much
with MP3 or uncompressed audio, but play some decent quality modules,
especially chip tunes, and you'll hear the difference. Even when the software
(at least, under Windows) claims to be 100% tracker perfect. I guess this has
much to do with the mixer.
PG> Another factor is whether or not the user has just spent £1000+ on a PC
PG> with nice soundcard, which tends to cause a bias towards the PC :)
Well, you start to hear Paula's 8bit-ness (or even 14bit) on MP3s or raw audio
ripped from a CD when you have good speakers. I'm talking good as in the HiFi
link on http://www.zeusdev.co.uk/ - you can hear every little difference.
A lot of people will have "200 watt" (i.e. watts PMPO, which will be something
like 5 watts RMS) plastic cased speakers on that PC, rendering all the
Soundblaster Live's in the world useless.
-.
Neil Williams, neil@zeusdev.co.uk - ICQ UINs: 18223711 & 116110052
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