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From: jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CD sound
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Date: 3 Nov 90 19:36:38 GMT
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fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:

>Re: autosampling on PCs

>I hate to say it, but the Mac LC has a built-in microphone port...
>                                                --Rick Wrigley
>                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet

I was thinking more on the lines of CD quality (16 bit x 2 @44.1khz)
sound playback/record built into a future Amiga.  After reading my message posted 
at 3AM, it wasn't very apparent :-).  Especially after bringing up the SS1 
and Personal Iris, which DON'T have CD quality sound.  Only the NeXT does.  The 
LC probably has single channel 8 bit sound about the same quality as the Amiga 
with three less channels.  What I wouldn't mind seeing is built in CD quality 
sound on the Amiga.  The easiest way to do that would be a DSP.  But that would 
probably be too expensive to build into the machine, and we already have DSP 
cards.  But who knows.  Hardware always comes down in price after a while.  Maybe 
we'll eventually see an out-of-the-box Amiga with a DSP.  Then it hopefully WOULD 
be the first Personal Computer with built in CD quality sound!  What I guess 
we're more likely to see is A3000s bundled with some snazzy DSP cards, and later,
a built in DSP in a future Amiga if that package is really popular.

C'ya,
Jim
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