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Actually, Turtle Beach was the highest quality within a reasonable price range for most home recording budgets, at least in a Microsoft environment - I still have the old reviews, and there wasn't much to choose from. The Tahiti card (aka Monterrey) was a quantum jump in sound quality for about $300, and up till then you had to spend a good bit more. It was certainly much cleaner than analog recording, which brings me back to a previous point: Analog recording sounded and still sounds good. Digital recording from that era was a substantial improvement, which made it very good. Even better digital sound may be very very good, but most of the good's been gotten. I'm sure that a trained ear can hear it, but all I'm saying is that we're talking about shades of gray here, not another giant leap for mankind.

It also occurred to me that Cool Edit and Cool Edit Pro were the next generation after TB Wave SE and Quad, as good and affordable Windows-based audio software. TB therefore was an important and maybe even necessary precursor to Audition, as we know it. The TB brand may be watered down now (and the original Pennsylvania-based company really doesn't exist anymore), but those products are part of the reason this forum is here for us to be talking...