rec.autos.simulators

Do you have some sort of vendetta against your ears? C'mon, tell the group.
Maybe talking about it will help...  :-)

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Mark Jeangerard
www.soundchaserweb.com
New Mexico, USA

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:31:12 -0600, "Mark Jeangerard"

Md

Md

Indeed.
Although I'm still wondering what it is, specifically, about computer
setups that you find so grating (excuse the unintended pun). I'm aware
that when it all comes down to it, discrete components rule the roost,
but I can hardly envision a properly set up computer/amp system
damaging any speakers from excessive clipping. Clipping, from what I
understand, usually results from a signal imbalance (improper
line-level voltage matching, etc.), so it would seem that to be
experiencing such obvious clipping, you would have to have done
something such as set the SB Live's equalizer way out of whack, which
would then naturally***everything up when passed through the
amplifier.

Anyways, I'm open to intelligent discussion about the detriments of
using a PC as an audio source.

-Slash

"The people on the internet know more about what I am doing than I do.
 Like, they will say that I am going to be in this mall on this day and sure
 enough I am there."
 - Tori Amos, Dew Drop Inn Tour, 17-June-1996

However - I wasn't speaking of clipping - I was speaking of signal
quality.  Speakers love a CLEAN signal.... less work on the cones --
less movement.  An SB Live still produces dirty sound, compared to say
- a good or ever half decent amp/receiver.  Not such a factor on a
small set of desktop speakers, with their little 3" drivers, they can
take the dirty signal (and most likely, can't even reproduce the real
*** stuff in the lower and higher frequencies).  I just think you
guys are nuts -- unless you like replacing your audio components
frequently.  I've had the same set of Polk 7Cs for 10 years --- won't
replace them for another 10, probably.  

A good quality sound-card (i.e.. soundblaster live) feeding into a good
quality amplifier and played through high quality speakers will by far
outperform a good (amplified) PC speaker set. Most people will find it more
than satisfactory, however it will not be up to the standards of an
audiophile.

I use a set of Cambridge FPS 1000 speakers on my PC along with a
Soundblaster Live 1024, this is in a small room and sounds fine for my
requirements of a PC game, I wouldn't use them for playing music though, at
least not seriously.

If I want to listen to music or watch movies I do so on my AV system (TEAC
Dolby Digital receiver, DVD player etc.) I'm not prepared to pay the extra
for the absolute best AV equipment as in most instances what I have more
than satisfies my requirements. I like listening to good quality music, but
at the same time I am not too concerned about slight nuances that are added
by the equipment.

--
Ian Parker

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Jari Jokinen

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Ian Parker
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I did mention that it could also be classed as a pre-amp in my original post
though.

--
Ian Parker
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