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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: CD sound
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Date: 7 Nov 90 17:20:29 GMT
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In article <125648@linus.mitre.org> sokay@kurgen.mitre.org (Steve Okay W43) writes:
>It can do mono 8-bit sampling at either 11Khz or 22Khz. When asked about stereo,
>the salesdroid made some joke about hacking 2 together to get stereo
>and that stereo sound was a ways off for PCs/Macs/whatever. Being
>polite, I didn't tell him about my PerfectSound II.
>When I asked about the sampling rate, he told me about the 11 or 22Khz
>settings and seemed offended that I'd interrupted his evangelization
>of the masses.

The salesdroid was wrong (one annoying thing for me is that Mac salespeople seem
to know less about the Mac than Amiga salespeople know about the Amiga.)  You
can do stereo sampling with the SID II from (I think) Cedar technologies.  The
problem is that there isn't much support for it.  22Khz is the max sampling rate
that I am aware of.

The reason the sampled sounds may sound muddy is that the Mac speakers are
pretty wimpy.