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	Computer Sound Card Help
		Sound cards have several uses and has become a standard option which comes with computers today.
		Generally, most computer sound cards will have a MIDI port which allows for several musical instrument devices to be connected to the computer such as a MIDI keyboard or a synthesizer.
		However, for cards that do include this as a feature, this allows for the volume to be turned up and down on a non amplified output such as a set of headphones.
	www.computerhope.com /help/sound.htm (775 words)

	What is sound card? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		Sound cards are necessary for nearly all CD-ROMs and have become commonplace on modern personal computers.
		Sound cards enable the computer to output sound through speakers connected to the board, to record sound input from a microphone connected to the computer, and manipulate sound stored on a disk.
		In addition, most sound cards are Sound Blaster-compatible, which means that they can process commands written for a Sound Blaster card, the de facto standard for PC sound.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/s/sound_card.html (272 words)

	Sound Cards
		Audio Adapter, Sound card, 16-bit, 48 kHz, 5.1 USB more...
		PCI Sound Card, Plug In, 7.1 Channel Surround more...
		Sound Card, 24-bit, 96 kHz, 7.1, PCI, 109 dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Microsoft Windows Compatible more...
	www.superwarehouse.com /sound_cards/c2b/2623 (221 words)

	What is sound card? - a definition from Whatis.com
		The sound card's four main functions are: as a synthesizer (generating sounds), as a MIDI interface, analog-to-digital conversion (used, for example, in recording sound from a microphone), and digital-to-analog conversion (used, for example, to reproduce sound for a speaker).
		Sounds are simulated by using algorithms to create sine waves that are as close to the sound as possible.
		Sound cards were once all connected to the ISA slot.
	searchsmb.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci497888,00.html (470 words)

	PC Sound Card Problem - Troubleshooting computer sound card driver and speakers
		The best driver means the most recent driver, so check the manufacturer's website for an update, because your sound card may have been sitting on a shelf for a year before you bought it.
		On high-end sound cards with front and rear speaker jacks, try the front speaker jack first.
		If you can't get the operating system to recognize the sound card, which is sure to be plug-and-play, shut down and unplug, remove all the other adapters except the video card from the system, reboot and let the BIOS and operating system adjust.
	www.fonerbooks.com /sound.htm (1083 words)

	Soundcard tips
		PC soundc cards and CD players are both 16 bit devices and can use same sample rate, but this does not meant the sound quality of those devices is the same.
		Most people who use sound cards ultimately end up using a mixer for something or other, so this might be a good excuse to get one.
		If MIDI file is played though a syntetizer or computer sound card you will hear the same notes as in the song but played back using the sounds your syntetizer or sound card has.
	www.epanorama.net /documents/pc/soundcard_tips.html (3793 words)

	Sound Card
		Sound cards use capacitors in the signal path, so any DC level is removed.
		Most data acquisition cards provide 8 or 16 channels that can be switched to single ended "non-symmetric" or differential "symmetric" inputs if signals differ in ground level.
		A clear advantage of sound cards in comparison to most data acquisition cards is that two channels are captured at the same time using two A/D converters or at least two sample and hold devices.
	www.mvps.org /rgrier/sound_card.htm (920 words)

	Sound Card
		Sound cards are used to connect speakers to the computer to allow for audio output.
		Older sound cards used FM synthesis involving sine waves and synthesizer effects to approximate the sound of instruments such as drums and piano.
		The sound card receives electronic digital sound and converts it into an analog output that your speakers are equipped to receive.
	www.computeresolutions.com /guide/soundcard.html (485 words)

	Windows XP: Sound Card 101
		Sound moves as electrical impulses through the wires and switches in your computer, and as a wave out of the speakers.
		Surround sound is generally used for linear, non-interactive audio like that of a movie, whereas 3-D sound is used to better recreate the proper positioning of sounds as you move about inside a 3-D game world.
		If you shop for a sound card with a DSP, look for one that manages at least 32 channels “in hardware.” This means that 32 channels are managed on the DSP before it needs to send the rest of the channels to the CPU.
	www.microsoft.com /windowsxp/using/games/learnmore/soundcard101.mspx (2106 words)

	Review: AOpen AW744S sound card
		A card with only a couple of hardware 3D sound channels, therefore, is a dodgy proposition; the usual strategy employed by under-powered cards is to mix a few more channels up from the ones it's got, then dump any sounds it can't handle in 3D to the easier-to-calculate plain stereo channels.
		Any half-decent sound card these days has impressively quiet input and output, and can be used for quite serious studio digital audio work, as long as you're happy with basic stereo analogue input and output and don't need fancy digital connectors.
		The way we do it is by analysing the spectral and phase changes in the sounds that are picked up by each ear; the head, the ears and the environment all change the sound that's emitted by things, and the brain decodes the phase rotation and reverberations and relative delays and frequency emphases.
	www.dansdata.com /aw744s.htm (2892 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Sound Cards Work"
		Before the invention of the sound card, a PC could make one sound - a beep.
		Fortunately, computers' sound capabilities increased greatly in the 1980s, when several manufacturers introduced add-on cards dedicated to controlling sound.
		Surround sound also uses sound from several directions, but the sound does not change based on the listener's actions.
	computer.howstuffworks.com /sound-card.htm (281 words)

	PCAVTech Sound Card Technical Benchmarks Test Ratings Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The two things that are going to affect your perception of how a sound card sounds the most are its frequency response and its SNR.
		Since sound card SNR test results are generally tied to IM and THD test results by the mechanics of how sound cards work, if the SNR is above 80 dB, the THD and IM for the card are also probably going to be just fine.
		Sound Blaster SB 16 PnP/ Wave 32 (CT4180)
	www.pcavtech.com /soundcards/compare/index.htm (436 words)

	Configuring Sound in VMware Workstation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sound support is currently limited to PCM (pulse code modulation) output (that is, any application that produces sound without using MIDI).
		Be sure your physical sound card is installed and configured properly on the Windows host operating system.
		Be sure your physical sound card is installed and configured properly on the Linux host operating system.
	www.vmware.com /support/ws3/doc/ws32_vidsound4.html (1122 words)

	Craig Anderton's Soundcard Tips
		To a computer, a sound card is just another peripheral, like a printer or modem, and these settings specify how the computer will talk to the card.
		One is to assign the card to 7, since you probably won't print and use a sound card simultaneously.
		This may all sound complicated and technical, but it's the kind of procedure that you do once, then don't worry about again until it's time to de-install old boards and add new ones...which brings up the whole subject of plug and play (or plug and pray, as it's affectionately nicknamed).
	www.alesis.com /support/cc/sndcard.html (1540 words)

	Sound Card (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When you hear music coming from your computer's speakers, the sound card's digital signal processor, (or DSP), is at work along with the digital-to-analog converter, (or DAC), processing and converting digital sound data to analog sound data.
		When you talk into your computer's microphone, the sound card's DSP works along with the analog-to-digital converter, (or ADC), to process and convert analog sound data to digital sound data.
		The Sound Blaster Live Value card allows you to connect a sound input device (like a stereo), a microphone, front speakers, rear speakers, and a joystick or MIDI instrument (like a MIDI keyboard).
	www.kids-online.net /learn/clickjr/details/scard.html (295 words)

	Windows XP: Installing a New Sound Card
		When you open the case, you can locate the sound card by lining it up with the jacks where you see the speakers plug into the back of the computer (those jacks are part of the sound card).
		This is the "outside" of your sound card (where the speakers plug in).
		Sound card screws are usually the same size, but if your new card came with its own, use them just to be safe.
	www.microsoft.com /windowsxp/using/games/learnmore/installsoundcard.mspx (1369 words)

	Virtual-Hideout \| Bluegears b-Enspirer 7.1 Sound Card Review
		This is the first Oxygen sound card on this test bench in quite some time as Creative had taken the market over in greater numbers thanks to its Audigy series.
		The b-Enspirer is Bluegears' very first sound card to the market intended to be an alternative to other makers such as Creative.
		The card supports any and everything from 2 channels up to 8 channels of quality sound whether it be a desktop PC or an HTPC connected to your favorite theater configuration.
	www.virtual-hideout.net /reviews/Bluegears_Enspirer/index.shtml (860 words)

	Hallmark Expands Sound Card Collection
		Each clip plays up to 30 seconds when the card is opened, and stops when the card is closed.
		Hallmark sound cards are printed on high-quality card stock and feature a mix of special processes to make them sparkle, shimmer or stand out.
		With this next generation of sound cards, “Hallmark has just taken the time and cared enough to make them meaningful – to get licensing rights to the original songs from the original artists and to put it together into a quality card that consumers love,” Esselman says.
	pressroom.hallmark.com /sound_cards.html (668 words)

	Enhanced Sound Card Driver for Replay Radio and Replay A/V
		The Enhanced Sound Card Driver option for Replay Radio and Replay A/V has many benefits for improving audio recordings, and a few drawbacks.
		IMPORTANT: The Enhanced Sound Card Driver requires Replay AV or Replay Radio 5.1 or later.
		The Enhanced Sound Card Driver works by mimicking a sound card on your PC, trapping sounds, and then sending those sounds to the default sound card.
	www.replay-video.com /replay-radio/enhanced_sound_card_driver_60.php (423 words)

	Word of The Day: Sound Card
		A sound card is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under program control.
		Also, most sound cards have a "line in" connector where the sound signal from a cassette tape recorder or similar sound source can be connected to.
		Today, most good quality sound cards have hardware support for at least 16 channels of digital audio but others, like cheap Audio codecs, still rely partially or completely on software, either their drivers or the operating system itself to perform a software downmix of multiple audio channels.
	www.infopackets.com /channels/en/pause_for_thought/word_of_the_day/2005/20050816_sound_card.htm (1075 words)

	Amazon.com: Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Value 7.1-Channel Sound Card: Electronics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		My previous card was the soundblaster MP3 card from 2000, and unfortunately the programs were out of date and would not update to windows xp, so I broke down and got a different soundcard.
		Sound quality is excellent, and make sure not to be to cheap on speakers, or you really waste the value of the card.
		I think that sound quality (not raw power i.e higher level of volume) of all named systems are almost equal these three are top of the line of speakers system available which one system do you like u can play with SB Audigy 2 card for best sound environments around you.
	www.amazon.com /Creative-Labs-SoundBlaster-Audigy-7-1-Channel/dp/B0002ZH6QY (1757 words)

	Setting Up the Sound Card
		Before you begin, you should know the model of the card you have, the chip it uses, and whether it is a PCI or ISA card.
		A second method is to statically compile in support for your sound card in your kernel.
		Non-PnP ISA cards may require you to provide the kernel with information on the sound card settings (IRQ, I/O port, etc).
	www.freebsd.org /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html (991 words)

	3. Sound Card Settings
		They are for stereo channel control and setting the slider to the wrong side could mute outgoing sounds to one of the two possible sound card channels/radioports.
		card (the sound card's name will be in the lower left of the window).
		However in some sound cards/systems, when Windows reboots, your Volume Control settings may automatically be reset to a default that is something other than you want.
	www.patmedia.net /ralphmilnes/soundcardpacket/3volset.htm (1963 words)

	My Super PC - Sound Card - How To Build Your Own Affordable, Quality, Fast Computer!!
		Even better sound, of course, but also better overall performance out of the computer since the sound card is there to handle audio processing.
		My latest re-build included the sound card since I was curious to see what difference it would make to the sound quality.
		The built-in sound provided by motherboards such as the EPoX 8RDA+ and the MSI K8N Neo Platinum will satisfy most listeners, including me. But if you want a sound card for even better sound or to maximize performance, the line of model I like is Soundblaster made by Creative Labs.
	www.mysuperpc.com /sound.shtml (1339 words)

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