Degru
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What does dashboard/SINAD look like below clipping level? As bad as it is, seems a little unfair to put it on the ranking when you know it's clipping
It would be similar to the IMD vs level graph.What does dashboard/SINAD look like below clipping level? As bad as it is, seems a little unfair to put it on the ranking when you know it's clipping
The old days... C64 whose so unfinished that it whose fun poking around, CPC 4128 whose so polished that it whose the first PC with an OS & ecosystem (CP/M). Amiga brought revolution especially regarding audio... Good old days. Some went to history, some sold the brand name and some went back to audio like Mackintosh. I remember I bought Comodore PC speakers in mid 90 and those ware beterr that any from Logitech or Creative for a PC speakers of course.Correct.
No one (95-99%) of buying public don’t care. Why should OEMs waste more than 10c on inbuilt sound.
You have to remember the heritage of the PC with the PC Speaker (honker). And yes, you have the IBM and Microsoft alliance to thank for that.
It ain’t no Commodore or Amstrad...
I wonder how good the realtek chips on the custom BYO PC compared to this one as those MOBOs advertise shielding and on their audio path stage. I don't really like that they only advertise SNR with a RMAA software rather than an actual analyzer.
Maybe even better, put the Dell in the rubbish bin and build a decent machine and use a Linux distribution.
When was hi-fi audio ever a concern with the average PC user? Surely anyone who cared would buy an external audio interface? The built-in audio is only there to provide the (mostly pointless?) interface sound effects in any case.
The only reference I can find is an award at Computex Taiwan from 2010:Good hint. Here it is: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0899&SUBSYS_10280859&REV_1000
I'll tell you something: that Realtek chip may well be rooted in the 48kHz world
┌─ [dc@xps]:[~]
└─> aplay -D hw:0,0 -f cd --dump-hw-params /dev/zero
Playing raw data '/dev/zero' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
HW Params of device "hw:0,0":
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ACCESS: MMAP_INTERLEAVED RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT: S16_LE S32_LE
SUBFORMAT: STD
SAMPLE_BITS: [16 32]
FRAME_BITS: [32 64]
CHANNELS: 2
RATE: 48000
PERIOD_TIME: (333 170667)
PERIOD_SIZE: [16 8192]
PERIOD_BYTES: [128 65536]
PERIODS: [2 32]
BUFFER_TIME: (666 341334)
BUFFER_SIZE: [32 16384]
BUFFER_BYTES: [128 65536]
TICK_TIME: ALL
--------------------
Warning: rate is not accurate (requested = 44100Hz, got = 48000Hz)
please, try the plug plugin
^CAborted by signal Interrupt...
But haven't you heard? Microsoft LOVES Linux now!He is ex-microsoft, I have a feeling he'll keep using MS.. PS let's not go OS-elitist here
The answer is businesses. They can have have 100 built PCs brought to them tomorrow, (not after they have spent dozens of man-hours assembling them and installing an OS). If something goes wrong, they contact Dell (not component manufacturer #996). When they want new machines, they call up their local rep and just say "more of those please. Oh, and please chuck in some monitors".I always wondered how they still stay in this business of pushing white (now black) boxes. PC assembly is not hard (screwdriver only needed), and you can get much better quality components.
Don't overpay for an "audiophile" motherboard. Buy an outboard USB DAC instead. This site has uncovered (and covered) quite a few inexpensive - or dare I say cheap - yet very high-performing USB DACs.I wonder how good the realtek chips on the custom BYO PC compared to this one as those MOBOs advertise shielding and on their audio path stage. I don't really like that they only advertise SNR with a RMAA software rather than an actual analyzer.
Ain't that the G-darned truth. Notice how this machine butchers not one, but two ESS9038PRO chips!The resulting quality is more dependent on implementation.