14bit paula

[Thorham]

AHI only slows down and reduces the quality of the sound.

Indeed.

I believe the article is wrong

It is. That described method can't even be used, because volume modulation modulates two samples per 'modulation sample' if I'm not mistaken.

You can code it without AHI, but generally if you're writing software that outputs >8bit audio then you want it to work with other sound cards, because the sound cards are usually better for other reasons.

Depends. If you want maximum performance, bang the hardware and add an option for AHI if you want sound card support.

[Thorham]

So whatever you say, that's not "14 bit quality audio".

It's still a big improvement over normal eight bit audio.

[Thorham]

Likely. Or at least "it is some improvement, hopefully, if calibrated carefully". Whether the lower bits in this computation mean anything is really anybodies guess.

No, not likely, definitely. I use this myself, and it sounds quite good (depends on the source, of course). Quality ranges from 'an improvement' to almost CD quality (really). Depends on the music (and playback rate, and method of down sampling if any).

If you want high-quality audio, I would suggest a real audio card

If I want to use a sound card, I'll use my peecee.