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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Is NeXT's audio sampler only eight-bit?
Message-ID: <23595@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 89 18:27:44 GMT
References: <3244@sugar.uu.net> <1468@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1468@cps3xx.UUCP> flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn) writes:
>In article <3244@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
>>I have heard that the Next's built-in audio sampler only samples at eight bits
>>of resolution.  Can anyone verfiy this?  Eight bits is fine for voice mail,
>>but it has long been unacceptable for pro and semipro audio.
>
Of course. 16-bit A-D is expensive, and very hard to do inside an
incredibly noisy box like the Next or any other computer. 

>We recently heard (at a campus-wide demo)that a third-party hardware
>vendor has come out with an external A/D box, for $800 (!!).  Sorry, I
>didn't get any other information (like the interface, sampling rates,
>resolution).  Maybe somebody else has heard something.
>
Seems like a fair price to me. You'll spend more on the microphones
than that. Of course, once you get serious and upgrade a room to match
the noise characteristics of your mikes and sampling box, you're
talking about an order of magnitude more money.

				Peter Desnoyers