Amiga audio early lead lost..

[Plaz]

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/ad516

This in a zorro Amiga outperformed most anything pc based at the time. I still own two of them. I also moved to pc when commodore closed. I had to go back to Amiga/AD516 after much lost time and work on inferior wintel based alternatives of the day. And that was after spending over $200 on a PC turtle beach card. (AD cards far more expensive, but quality ain't cheap) SB cards of the day were too noisy for serious recording. I had tape decks that were quieter.

It wasn't until winXP with improved SB cards many years later that wintel surpassed the Ami solution and the AD's still hold their own against the low-mid pc stuff.

Plaz

[Plaz]

It happened during the Windows 95 era. Cool edit was much better for audio editing than anything on the Amiga.

For editing yes. I used to record tracks on the Ami then edit them on the PC with Cool Edit.  Cool Edit is one of the best utils ever and I still use its modern descendant today... Audio Audition (Cool Edit bought out by Adobe) . However buggy crashy win95 was horrible for actual multi-track recording. I lost days of time and money because of lost and corrupted work on 95 no matter the service packs, driver updates memory managers... on and on I tired to make it better. This is why I had to go back to Amiga equipment. Because of the horrible window experience it took me along time to move to XP. Sonar (version 5 maybe) finally made me make the move back to a wintel box.

Plaz