On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 19:43 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 13:10 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > Today i powered up the system and the LED on the 1010 didn't light up. I > > pulled the 9 VAC cord out then plugged it in and the LED lighted up. > > <sigh> I guess I'll send it back for a replacement. > > Ok, i pulled it out and re-packaged it for return to the store. Then I > plugged the studio monitors into the on-board sound card (a regular AC97 > thing). OMG! The on-board card sounds like crap, by comparison with the > 1010! It's flat, harsh, muffled and... um... lifeless, sort of. > I guess the average listener wouldn't perceive the difference (or care > about it) but for critical listening, it's like night and day. I didn't > even had to A/B it with the 1010, it was clear from the beginning. > > I'm anxiously waiting for a replacement for my 1010... :-/ > Yup, most onboard sound hardware is shockingly bad. People complain about Linux support, and don't realize that this stuff barely works on *any* OS. Lee
