chris hermansen wrote: > [...] > Based on the above, if I were going to rip some vinyl through this > sound card, I would connect the phono pre-amp to the Aux jack. The Aux input goes through a very crappy analog mixer (a CM9780). > I understand what you are trying to do. For sure you want the > incoming analogue signal to be at a high enough level before you > convert it to digital This is a good idea in general, but on the Xonars, the line input bypasses the CMI9780 (this is why there is no hardware volume control), so you get better quality by using line-in and then doing amplification on the digital recording. Wernder Arnhold wrote: > What do you mean with "the D2X has lots of headroom"? A signal-to-noise ratio of 118 dB on the line input. You can do *lots* of digital amplification before you come near the noise level of a vinyl recording. On the aux input, you get at most 95 dB if you're lucky and don't use gain. Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
