Why do I sometimes hear a static sound when playing or recording to a SoundBlaster...

Why do I sometimes hear a static sound when playing or recording to a SoundBlaster?

If you are using a Creative Labs AWE 43 or 64 sound card, the audio playback quality will be poor if full-duplex mode is enabled. This is a condition caused by the
Creative Labs Driver. The audio is recorded in 16-bit, but will only play back in 8-bit as long as the full-duplex mode is enabled. Once you make a recording, choose
Options | Audio | Advanced and uncheck the "Enable Simultaneous Record/Playback" item. As soon as you change the Source from Audio to MIDI, the driver
automatically plays back 16-bit audio.
The SoundBlaster Live card does not suffer from this limitation.

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