The truth about soundcards

[Robert D]

For any of you out there wondering who to believe, the print on the box and ads for soundcards like the SB Audigy, which tell you they are studio quality, or the folks in here who tell you get a real soundcard, though you wonder if we're just stuck up gear snobs............. here's the freq response of the Audigy, and the card I use, Lynx II, both measured with the Right Mark Audio Analyzer, both cards at 24/96.

Lynx II
Frequency range Response
From 20 Hz to 20 kHz, dB -0.02, +0.00
From 40 Hz to 15 kHz, dB -0.01, +0.00

Audigy
Frequency range Response
From 20 Hz to 20 kHz, dB -9.41, +0.00
From 40 Hz to 15 kHz, dB -4.99, +0.00

Just so you know

 

[Robert D]

Whoops, wrong forum. I've moved it to the Computer recording and Soundcards forum.

 

[daav]

OK someone tell me what this means now.

Thanks,
Dave.

 

[cpl_crud]

Basically, Robert is telling us to believe the people, and not the advertising.

The figures there show the deviance across the frequency range (the "flatness" of the frequency response curve). The Lynx II has only a 0.02dB variation between 20Hz and 20kHz, whereas the Audigy has 9.41dB.

To paraphrase Orwell:
Lynx II good
Audigy bad

 

[WhatdoIknow]

...But if you read the Audigy ad copy out loud, they "sound" better than the Lynx ads!

Seriously, I'm wondering just where the Audigy fell off.... at what freqs?....And where, if any, range of freqs was it flat?

I don't use SB stuff, never considered it...I use M-audio...But I'm kinda curious and would love to see a graph of how it did.

Thanks for posting the facts.