Re: sound cards (was Re: ebay prices)

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

Louis Cornelio <clairmnt@n2.net> wrote:

>In article <3B5A46A8.CDF7BB6C@intergate.bc.ca>, Wayne Stewart 
><waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>> The card appears to be an AE Sonic Blaster, not common but not what you'd
>> really call rare or even a particularly great sound card.
>
>Any agreement or what the best sound card was/is?

    Apple IIgs stereo cards or Apple II+/IIe sound cards? If the former
I would say the Applied Engineering Audio Animator. 
    
    The FutureSound is as good, if not better in sound quality, but it
lacks an external mixer and MIDI. Both these cards are by far the
best for sound recording as they used their own ADC rather than
the one built-in the Ensoniq chip (the AE went a step further and
isolated it in the sound mixer, which is a shielded external box).
For just sound output, the MDIdeas SuperSonic worked quite
nicely (much better than the SonicBlaster or SoundMeister). And
If you can find one, the MDIdeas Digitizer Pro also used it's own
ADC for recording.

    I actually own one of every stereo card released for the IIgs,
minus the FutureSound (and the AI GStereo, though I'm not sure
 if it was ever released).

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca