Re: CRAP Poll: Audio Output

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?
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     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.