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From: mf@uunet.UU.NET (mf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Lousy input sound
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Date: 27 Oct 88 08:26:10 GMT
References: <25795@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <898@accelerator>
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In article <898@accelerator> Michael S. Czeiszperger writes:
>                     (Ok, so the input sound quality is so terrible
>at 8 bits that you'd have to buy an A/D converter anyway, but
>nothings perfect

This may be a conscious choice of NeXT due to the fact that writing to the disk
is probably *much* slower than reading from it.  Hence,
sustaining 44.1Khz of stereo (say) is much more feasible as
output (disk reads) than on input.  If this is indeed the case, the limit
is inherent to the disk(s) and buying a good A/D might not help at all.