Why do ST fanboys say ST has better sound ?

[dougal]

I have always had Amigas since i was 9 , so i am always going to be biased towards Amiga .

But i always here the ST fanboys say that the ST has better sound .

The ST is a fine machine , and granted , it has MIDI ports as standard.

But i have heard the sound from ST games , and they sound rubbish , not much better than PC Speaker , even the C64 is probably just as good if not better .

I have compared the music of the same games on both Amiga and ST and the ST does not even compare with the Amiga .

Games i have tried are : Xenon II , Ninja Warriors , SWIV , SOTB and a few others .

On a side note: Ninja Warriors has in my opinion the best music in a game ever .. Especially the Amiga version

[dougal]

I agree with all the arguments here .

But lets be honest , for normal practical gaming music the Amiga is way ahead of the ST .

The games on the ST sound like a typical 80's computer which is good as all other computers in the 80's sounded similair to the ST .

The Amiga was just way ahead of its time .

Personally i prefare the Amiga sample based music rather than the ST chip music .

I guess another argument could be that the Amiga has custom chips , including the Paula and the ST does not .