skype

[Norman Silverstone]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 11:00 +0100, Krysztof Luks wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 17:38 +0000, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > Following on from the encouragement that I received I have successfully
> > downloaded installed and tested Skype. However, I was not satisfied with
> > the quality and suppose this is due to the rather primitive microphone
> > and speakers that I have. Would you experienced users please advise me
> > on suitable hardware.
> 
> Are you using on-board sound card or a PCI one? On-board sound devices
> often have very poor microphone amplifiers resulting in low voice
> quality. In my case using old PCI SoundBlaster128 greatly improved the
> situation. As Eric said just about any computer headset is suitable.

I am using the on-board sound device so this could be the reason. Thanks
to all on the equipment.

Norman