OT: RE: copper

[KA4HJH]

>Reminds me how I recently tried to find out how good the Mac AV input
>is. I thought this was easy, just record, playback and compare to the
>original. But it wasn't.

I've never done any tests myself but I wouldn't expect stellar performance,
not even from an "A/V" model. That designation doesn't even mean what you
would assume it does. On the current crop of Macs (G3's all), it means that
instead of  of the cheap "personality module" that only has audio, among
other things, it also have video, of a sort. Not exactly full bandwidth,
full motion video.

Anyway, with every Mac I've tried the level meters are always up a ways and
quite possibly jiggling around with no signal in! Talk about noise and RFI.
As for the quality of the conversion, what do you expect at these prices?
You can't buy a good stereo card for less than $300. This doesn't happen
with an AudioMedia III--now we're in the the "over $500" range.

I sure am glad to have this wonderful toy but I have to be realistic; when
it comes to A/D/A, you get what you pay (or don't pay) for.

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"