Into Sandy’s City (Doom II) - Diamond DT0196H LS262 (OPL3-FM) vs. S3 Sonic Vibes 82C617 (S3-FM)

Into Sandy’s City - it’s a great tune, isn’t it? You’ll find this masterpiece of pc-games-music when playing Doom II map 9. The track played great on soundcards featuring the Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 FM -or the identical LS262 clone in this comparison. But when i played the tune with the the S3 Sonic Vibe, i was excited. Great tune to demonstrate the S3FM! Some words to the soundcards: The Diamond card is quite rare - it is basically a rebranded Avance Logic ALS007 soundcard and works with the very same drivers, but it features a nice coloured and quality PCB with dual 386 op-amps instead of the usual 2025 stereo amplfier cirquity. Anyway, i’d use the line-out to prevent noise - and the result was a clean reacord. As any ALS007 card it features an external Yamaha YMF262 OPL3 FM-Synth - which is labled as LS212. The card is a 16bit PnP ISA-soundcard and it is one of the few cards offering compatibility to Soundblaster 16 instead of just Sondblaster Pro. Today, Avance L