Re: which pci sound card does not have dropouts under load

Andrew Kieschnick (andrewk@mail.utexas.edu)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:08:33 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Gerst wrote:

> Reading digital audio from a CD is more involved than just telling the
> IDE/SCSI controller to DMA it in. You have to do the ECC error
> correction, jitter correction, etc. that the drive would have normally
> done, if you want scratch and pop free audio.

You have to do jitter correction, but thats it (and with a good drive,
maybe not even that). The drive takes care of everything else for you -
All the other correction for CDDA is at a level the drive always does,
no matter what you're doing.

later,
Andrew Kieschnick

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