MK1869 ISA Sound Card Review

Today I’m taking a look at Edro and Leo’s new MK1869 ISA sound card! Many retro sound cards based on ESS chips were value focused and sound quality was not a priority. The MK1869 brings you all the great ESS strengths like excellent compatibility, great FM synthesis and a bug free MPU 401 combined with very clean sound output. It also gives you the ES690F wavetable chip on board, a wavetable header and more! Join me as I test out this card that ticks all the right boxes. MK1869 Product Page: https://pcmidi.eu/mk1869.html MK1869 Xtreme: https://pcmidi.eu/xtreme.html Link to the Orpheus II LT review: https://youtu.be/03xrEIiZZTk?si=ODGZttqkVZX3cIP7 DOS Days ESS games list: https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/ess_games.php My Blog: https://vswitchzero.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vswitchzero.com Mastodon: https://bitbang.social/@vswitchzero 00:00 Introduction 02:05 MK1869 Overview 06:03 Expansion Options 07:13 Connectivity 09:19 Software 10:16 Test Setup and Sound Quality 12:32