Talk:Ensoniq AudioPCI

Merged with ES1370 article
I merged this article with the article on the Ensoniq ES1370 chip - it doesn't appear that the chip was used for anything beyond this line of sound cards. --Jtalledo (talk) 12:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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The .ECW file format has been mostly reverse engineered by an enthusiast, and at least 2 custom wavesets have been created; see. --Guest, 21 January 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.164.83 (talk) 05:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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Poor quality?
This article is very poorly sourced and makes claims that are questionable or just plain wrong.

According to http://kakopa.com/ensoniq/ the S5016 is not a chip at all but rather board designation. The picture clearly shows a board with S5016 label (in a place where actual AudioPCI 1000 boards I've seen have empty space) next to an ES1370 chip. In fact Ensoniq's actual press release archived at https://web.archive.org/web/19980214014433/http://www.ensoniq.com/multimedia/mm_html/index.htm makes it clear. Where did the information about S5016 being a chip come from?

The article says the AudioPCI was released in July '97 (unsourced), but the above press release is from February '97 and mentions immediate shipments. Which is the right date? The text at https://web.archive.org/web/19980214060843/http://www.ensoniq.com/multimedia/mm_html/html/a_k6doc.htm certainly supports the February timeline.

The opening paragraph of the article ("The card represented a shift in Ensoniq's market positioning. Whereas the Soundscape line had been made up primarily of low-volume high-end products full of features, the AudioPCI was designed to be a very simple, low-cost product to appeal to system OEMs and thus hopefully sell in mass quantities.") is very questionable. The immediate predecessor of the AudioPCI was the Soundscape VIVO ISA sound card which was a similar low-cost product targeted at OEMs. The Sound Blaster emulation in the AudioPCI boards is actually quite similar to that in the VIVO (notably including the EMM386 requirement, unusual for ISA Sound Blaster compatibles).

Codegen86 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:55, 22 September 2016 (UTC)