[vorbis] tool for listening tests

[Merijn Vogel]

Interrupts on the local busses seem quite noisy.
(The soundcard itself generates one after every block 
played, to make matters worse ;) ).
Also the processor has a busy time just after an
interrupt occurs. Using my radio tuner and tuning
to the 99.55MHz (which was teh clockspeed of my old
computer) one could easily hear interrupts as if
it were lightning. Rather cool in one way, but
I can well imagine that it affects the soundcards
quality. The inside of a generalpurpose computer
is not the best place for an audio generator (dac)
plus amplifier to be :). Hence the plea for out-of-computer
dacs on this mailinglist.

-- Merijn

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:30:32PM +0200, Beni Cherniavksy wrote:
> On 2002-01-08, Nicola Larosa wrote:
> 
> >  > Is this application pre-decompressing the mp3/wma/ogg inputs?  Don't
> >  > forget that processor noise shows up on most internal soundcards, and
> >  > the harder the processor works, the more noise.
> >
> > On my laptop, it looks like mouse movement and disk access cause most of the
> > noise.

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