Re: [wsjt-devel] Subject: Feature request: Output audio device selection for alert sounds

[Alan <al...@al...>]

On my W11 PC not so.

I've got complete control over the soundcard, through both Windows settings 
and its driver.

Changes in one of those are reflected in the other.

Other hardware may vary.

Alan G0TLK, sent from my mobile device
On 27 April 2025 23:16:21 Fons Adriaensen via wsjt-devel 
<wsj...@li...> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:15:40PM +0100, alan2--- via wsjt-devel wrote:
>
>> I do it the other way around - cheap dongle set as Windows default, in-built
>> soundcard for WSJT-X and SDR's as on my PC it's better resolution etc.
>
> Using the default Windows device for SDR (or anything technical) might
> be a bad idea. Signals to/from it may be mangled by 'advanced audio
> processing' - stereo widening, binaural rendering, speech enhancement,
> noise reduction, automatic gain changes, echo candellation... That same
> device will also be used for all desktop beeps and jingles. You basically
> have no control over it.
>
> The same may be true on Macs and even on Linux machines depending
> on which desktop flavour is used.
>
> Using a dedicated device with fixed levels and controlled only by
> the SDR application will usually provide much more stable results.
>
> Ciao,
>
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> FA
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