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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Audio Output
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:17:36 +0200
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> 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.