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To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (9216)	1/29/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Savoirman	Respond to of 13925

PCI: On the contrary, even before the acquisitions, Creaf had these PCI solutions: the EMU8008 soundchip and the AWE64D PCI soundcard. The AWE64D PCI performs at the Gold level and because the nature of PCI uses CPU power and system memory Creaf can sell it at a lower price (save on memory chips). Now with Ensoniq Creaf also has the AudioPCI soundcard which is strong in OEM and the OPTi Mach-One soundchip at the very low end. The new SoundBlaster Live! series will be PCI based as well. Zakrosian, to read up on ISA/PCI see PC Mag Jan 8th (I think) and article called Shifting Soundscapes - excellent survery of the whole PCI/ISA/USB/1394/DMA/IRQ/INTABCD etc (sure as hell enlightened me!). The article may be on the website pcmag.com

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (9216)	1/29/1998 10:31:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13925

Thanks again - I'm actually a little bit less confused than I was earlier. I'm just trying to think like a sound consumer - which companies are in the business of making the music that I listen to over the internet sound more like what I listen to over my stereos? Does my soundcard (in my case an Ensoniq) have anything to do with that sound quality or is there something totally unrelated affecting that? ( I know I sound hopelessly ignorant, but I suspect that most of the folks who will spend billions of dollars over the next couple years on computer multi-media applications know even less than I do). thanks