Re: New MODZap!

[andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Andre Prellwitz)]

In article <25qrc7$5mt@jadzia.csos.orst.edu>,
Just a Guy Made of Dots and Lines <daye@CSOS.ORST.EDU> wrote:
     [stuff nuked all over]
>>Andre Prellwitz <andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu> wrote:
>>Please don't take this as a flame, but my ZipGS 7 ROM 1 clearly plays a lot
>>of popping noise w/0.9.  Perhaps there is something in your ROM 03 which is
>>different and therefore masks this popping.  I dunno if it's my computer,
>>either, so I'm asking other ROM 1 users if they've noticed this.  Perhaps it'
>>a bug caused by over-optimizing the code ;)
     
>I *USED* to notice a popping noise, but I solved it pretty easy.  I got a pair
>of small external amplified speakers (You can find these pretty cheap these
>days), turned the system volume down to about 2, and then cranked the volume
>on the speakers...VIOLA!  Now I don't hear disk access as much as before!
>The clicking in the finder isn't audible over all the fans on my hardware!
>(BTW -- This is on a Rom 01 ;)

Well, _my_ 'cheap' amplified speakers are a pair of nice headphones plugged in
to my Marantz SR3600 amp hooked up to my GStereo card (I know, I know, not the
best stereo card out there :)  I don't think it's any of these things because
Shellplay, soniqTracker play with very little noise.
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