Thread: Getting Hifi Speaker Sound out of PC
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Old November 29th 04, 11:56 PM posted to rec.audio.tech,uk.rec.audio
Laurence Payne
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Default Getting Hifi Speaker Sound out of PC
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:12:58 GMT, (Don Pearce)
wrote:

However, PCs tend to be very 'noisy' inside and you may notice a lot
of pops and whistles as other activity in the PC interferes with the
sound outputs.

No they don't. I do exactly this with my sound card (Echo MIa), and it
is of extremely high fidelity, and has never made even the slightest
pop or whistle. If you are getting extraneous noises, it is very
likely you are running your sound card on an inadvisedly shared
interrupt. It certainly isn't normal behaviour.

I guess he's talking about common-or-garden computer sound systems.
Quality cards like the Echo or M-Audio ranges have very acceptable
noise figures.