PassMark SoundCheck
PassMark SoundCheck is an audio testing program for use with your computers sound card speakers and microphone for testing these systems.
Ease of Use, Performance: 20/25, Look & Feel: 20/25,
Features 20/25, How much I enjoy 20/25
Total: 80/100
PassMark SoundCheck is a nice program to check your computers sound system including checking record features and playback of your sound card, speakers and microphone. The program has test waves to check your system, allows record and playback at various sample rates and supports 8, 16 and 24 bit stereo and mono sound.
Okay now that I got the company plug out of the way what does this really do, you can check your sound system at various rates and check the record and playback using SoundCheck using the built in test patterns or create your own. This allows you to check your sound system at high and low frequencies to check for distortion or other problems.
You can also see the wave forms so you know it’s working but this program is more for the audiophile and not your everyday computer user. This is great for optimizing your sound system for audio recording or mixing and would come in very handy for people who work exclusively with audio files and programs.
I found SoundCheck when I was reviewing some speakers and seeing how well they performed. I wanted a program that would record the sound and playback the same sound or a test pattern so I could see how well the speakers performed at high and low frequencies. I also wanted to check out what kind of distortion came through the speakers compared to other speakers so I wanted to have a set and recorded tone that was continuous and played back over two separate speaker systems.