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Article: How We Tested.(related article to 'The Speed of Sound')(Brief Article)
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- Computer Shopper
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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To provide quantitative measures of the performance of each sound card, we
used the Audio Precision System Two signal generator/analyzer, along with
procedures and tests developed for this project.
We installed each sound card in a 133MHz Dell Dimension XPS P133c equipped
with 16MB of RAM and the retail version of Windows 95 (version 4.00.950). For
graphics, we used an Imagine 128 Series 2 graphics card with 8MB of VRAM and
driver version 4.03.9041. We used an audiophile-quality PnP ISA card --the