Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anssi Saari Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Audio Output Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:17:36 +0200 Organization: An impatient and LOUD arachnid Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:17:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f49e0c7a262a7942cde7dbeb3ecb68ec"; logging-data="3669998"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19W3qTa+WTnT5EfRUnIt6t/" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wS/XnI+Afww7M2NJHahmw1f4fwI= sha1:SfMCYzzMlEoYwuwlWSwyJI4wDzQ= Bytes: 2981 Spalls Hurgenson writes: > Congratulations! You own a computer and are just about to play a game. > You've got the PC, the monitor, the mouse, the keyboard... but do you > have speakers? More to the point of this poll, what SORT of speakers? > > 1) A custom, high-end, room-filling, Dolby Surround > Sound system. With more speakers around me than most > people have fingers. Probably with $1000 gold-wire > cabling too. Only the best for my ears! I wish. In a dedicated sound proofed room too. Of course, for a reasonable setup you'd need at least three such rooms, one for movies, one for music, one for gaming... > 3) Your usual 2-speaker system, maybe not the best > but still sounding good This. Fairly ancient active studio monitors from M-Audio. Can't remember the model now but definitely out of production and they are from the 90s or early noughties. Connected to a preamp to which my PC connects via toslink. > 5) The sound comes from my TV I have a vague feeling one of my monitors has built in speakers. I've never used those. > 8) I'm using headphones Sometimes but not in recent years for gaming. The benefit of living in a house instead of an apartment... And also I guess I've got old and lost the taste for cranking up the sounds for gaming. I've sometimes wondered what my neighbors thought about my old subwoofer when I still lived in an apartment. It wasn't a very good subwoofer for music but for adding some kick to explosions and other game sounds it was just fine. > 9) I'm still using that tiny 1-bit piezo-electric beeper > on my motherboard Do they still put those on motherboards? I just had to check, I only have a header. A possible CRAP poll topic for the future?-) Maybe a little too simple and technical. > 10) I output the sound to a graph and interpret the > audio visually. ;-) Only when digitizing vinyls to set the volume level.