Before the AdLib sound card, sound on PCs was in a terrible shape. Since the dawn of IBM, all PCs included a speaker, but this PC speaker was only capable of sounding one note at a time. Chords on … ...

Recently, [eric] had been fixing up an old IBM XT and quickly realized the original AdLib sound cards were collector’s items and far too expensive for what they were.

Understanding Sound Card Specs. ... The spec is quoted as a percentage of the original signal, and the best cards will have output THD+N numbers near zero (e.g., 0.0004 percent).

A case in point is provided by Takashi Iwai’s recent pull request (h/t Phoron) to implement Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 ...

TheCreative Sound Blaster AE-7 is an excellent sound card for PC gaming, and it offers great value, along with being feature-rich. It can deliver up to 127Db of sound with no noise, and it is ...

From the start, my goal was to not only bring back the music and imaging of the original station, but to completely recreate the original “sound” of it, including its signature audio processing in the ...