"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:

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You can find an audio interface that will outperform say a HP 334 for
$30.
For $200 you're in the same league as some of the older, but not all that
old AP stuff.

Trying to use a PC as a general purpose bench instrument is like the
old race car guys that I used to hang out with. They would build a new
big block Chevy and a Turbo 400 behind it every couple of seasons. They
put in a dually one ton truck and pulled a trailer that would have been
just about right for an old single axle B Mack around for the season.
They got about five miles to the gallon under load too.

When I got older, I'd ask them why they didn't buy a real truck, you
know, air brakes, Fuller Roadranger, like a used Yellow or Roadway day
truck. Well, license and insurance cost too much and you needed a
"chauffeurs license" to drive it. (Those pre-CDL days!)

Well okay, at least put a diesel and an Allison in the pickup, why
don't you? Because we don't know how to work on them and you can't get
them in the junkyard for a hundred bucks.

Letsee Bret. If I want to have audio test equipment that will measure
spurious responses 100 dB down,, I either buy a M-Audio AP 24192 for $179
and 2 watt 5k pot to use as an attenuator for testing power amps and the
like for about $10 more, or I pony up $4,500 - $10,000 for a used Audio
Precision rig that is a whole lot better and easier to use, but in the end
also measures spurious responses 100 dB down.

How about renting one? Well one source offers new AP equipment for rent at
1/10 of new price *per month*, and another offers a legacy AP System One for
$650 a month.

You pays your money and you makes your choice...