Soundcard performance test results

Multimedia industry is selling 16 bit soundcards with claims of CD-quality sound. Actually very few of soundcards in the market meet this criterion. Usually the performance of the soundcards is much worse than what the manufacturers make us understand. In the below there are some test results of some of the most popular soundcards in the market:

Sound cards tested in this site

• Gravis Ultrasound classic
• Sound Blaster 16 (old version before PnP)
• Sound Blaster 16 Value Edition
• Sound Blaster AWE32
• Sound Blaster 32

Other sites with soundcard test results

• FFT demo spectrums of various sound cards and types
• Sound Card Performance Benchmarks