Hi Darrell Bellerive! On 2007.11.23 at 04:25:56 -0800, Darrell Bellerive wrote next: > > Well now, when pulseaudio era came, hopefully it's not true anymore. > > Pulseaudio shows some promise, but not all apps support it yet. Wasn't Most of them do - some through wrappers or alsa->pulse routing, for example SDL, openal and wine, but unlike jack, it works much better. The most problematic thing is gstreamer, it works with pulse, but audio quality suffers for unknow reason (not much, but quite noticeable on some material, and very annoying if you have good ears). Besides, with stuff like per-application mixers which stores its state (a feature you'll fall in love with instantly), on the fly audio card detection and stream switching, network transparency with transparent stream migration (just a few clicks to move sounds from your notebook to home audio system connected to main pc or home media server when you're home - I find it really useful), high quality resampling and so on really makes it the most desired think to have in the core of your linux audio system. > JACK, and then GStreamer, and soon Phonon, supposed to solve all our Jack has completely different purpose. It is good (bwt you can run pulse on top of jack, and some day probably will be able to run jack on top of pulse - though it wouldn't have much sense). gstreamer and photon are systems working at different level. They don't conflict with any sound server and support most of them. > audio problems? Yet another sound server. You might think of it like this, however after discovering pulseaudio I think that it's holy grail of linux audio we've been searching for years. Still a bit edgy, though. > > > Also while the Audiophile 24/96 does sample at 96 KHz, the audio > > > bandwidth of the card is limited to 22 Hz to 22 KHz +/- 0.4 dB. > > > Anyway, in analog mode, are you sure there is no option to switch off > > bandwidth filter? > > If there is, it is not documented. > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Ice1712 > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Envy24control Well there are Audiophile 192, Audiophile USB and other cards in Audiophile series - most are even more interesting than older Audiophile 24/96. So I don't really see any problem. -- Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
