[Lowfer] Beacon report

[Rick Kunath]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 5:39:57 pm Howell, Laurence (Shanghai/Singapore) 
wrote:
> On other computer here D620, another Dell,  this internal sound card 
> doesn't work that way and I have literally use a patching cord from the
> external speaker plug back into the mic/line inputs and select Mic/Line
> input (on mine it asks what I want it to be when I plug it in).
>
> Levels are good either way and I can't see degredation on either method
> though the first one is my favorite (dell 610) - however my old thinkpad
> internal sound card gave even more flex, and I could get 4 argos on the
> screen!

VAC keeps everything digital, as the sound stream is never decoded back to 
analog. Not sure if that would be noticeable or not. It's like digitally 
splitting the sound stream to multiple applications simultaneously.

Rick Kunath