On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Y.A. Bolawy wrote: > Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all > suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I > guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features > such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. > > I basically want to be able to use a combination of a good headset and > good soundcard capable of achieving the quality needed for speech > recognition. I never tried a microphone that requires phantom > power/xlr and am unsure if there's any worthwhile improvement. > I guess for my purpose USB 1 suffices. > > A small size would be a nice bonus and the same goes for good quality > outputs to connect the card to a stereo. The USB Transit by Maudio works well and have quite impressive performance. It is pretty basic ( line in and line out, no Mic preamp, 2V phantom power, on the standard inline 3/8" jack input) cheap ($100 Cdn) and small (smaller than a deck of cards and much lighter) See www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/soundcard/soundcard.html for a test. Because of the lack of a mic preamp in the card, putting in a microphone preamp is probably a good idea, as otherwise the mic input tends to be pretty quiet. > > By the way I'm in Europe (mostly nl), so models that are sold and > relatively easy to get over here have a strong preference. No idea what is for sale in the Netherlands. > > Thanks again, Bolawy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
