The only problem I have with it is if I connect the soudcard to my amplifier: there is a kind of buzz - maybe because of a ground loop which I could not locate up to now.
Now, I'm no guru on this very matter... though I have to say that pretty much every PCI soundcard I've tried on PC's the last 10 years or so have generated a 'humming' noise when connected to the amplifier.
When I put my SB128 in my Mediator setup on the Amiga I was extremely surprised when I realised I could turn up the volume on max on the stereo without hearing any 'humming' at all. A first in ten years. That's really all the 'facts' I am sitting on concerning this very matter.
Though, I've heard all different kind of answers to why this is, the 'humming', so to speak. Some people claim that old ISA SoundBlaster 16 cards are the way to go, if possible, because they generate no 'humming' at all (apparently due to the size of the card... the electronics on there have got the space they need not to generate disturbance between each other). Some people claim it is due to todays PC motherboards, that they are too compact and thus the electronics can't help but generate a 'humming' because of some disturbance. Some claim that the only way to get around the 'humming' on newer PC's is to buy one of those really expensive 24-bit studio soundcards which are shileded. Some says it is all about wether everything is grounded or not. And blah blah blah. I have no clue whatsoever what to think of all of this.
All that I do know for a fact is that the Soundblaster 128 in combination with the Mediator, at least in my case, generates no 'humming' at all. If I put it in my PC the 'humming' is horrible. Why? I haven't got a clue!
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