[BC] Computer based audio

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In a message dated 02/15/2006 12:50:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
barry at oldradio.com writes:

>          Willie, there are far too many stations trying to
>           run off the "built in" audio chip on a motherboard.

Some of those built-in sound cards actually don't sound too shabby. As long 
as they sound good and aren't noisy, they work quite well, and on AM, even if 
they roll off above 10Khz, nobody will know.

>           There is a reason that some stations (and networks)
>           pay big dollars for audio cards, often several times
>           more than the cost of the computer itself. 

Yes, I know... some audio cards cost as much as a decent used car! When we 
got the new AudioVault system, each machine came with a 4-channel stereo sound 
card, XLR ins & outs. Nice stuff. It was fun rigging all that up. We went from 
a total of three sound cards to 8. We still have one that has yet to be 
connected to anything. ;)

Willie...