Hi there, I own a HiFi USB sound card based on a TI Burr-Brown chip. It worked out of the box with Linux on two of my machines. However, I have bought a new machine and now I still haven't found a way to make it play correctly. After a random amount of time, the sound gets garbled. This is probably an issue with the USB host controller or it's driver. Do you want to use the sound card with a laptop? If so, I would suggest going to the store with your laptop and asking to try out the card before buying. I don't want to scare you away from buying such a device. I have been satisfied with my card until I changed my computer. I *NEVER* heard a on-board or PCI sound card that come close to the sound quality you can get with a good USB one. However, as I explained above there may be some problems, so I think you do your buying decision knowing that things can go wrong. Samuel Selon James Shatto <Shadow_7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:42:48 +0100 > "Y.A. Bolawy" <bolawy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is > > that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or > > will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech > > recognition. Of course, that is possible to some extend with any > > soundcard, but if the quality is low it has a big impact. > > > > Unfortunately, the better the quality of the cards, the less standard > > compliance they seem to be. At least that seems to be the underlying > > message of everything I've read so far. > > USB Audio is a standard. As long as the box says class compliant, it should > work out of the box in linux. Only one caveat though as it wont default to > card 0 and be your default card. Since you probably have a motherboard with > onboard sound. Configure accordingly. I have a USB M-Audio Mobile Pre and > it works fine. Although web browsers don't seem to use it properly even > though I have it configured to card 0. I've never had a problem recording > from it though. Not really the best audio option, but loads better than most > stock soundcards. > > HTH, > James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
