Re: Looking for USB Card that Records Stereo

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On Fri, 27 May 2016, lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Scanner audio has an SNR of about 40dB on a good day. Bandwidth is about 4KHz.

Which means that the Behringer should be far more than adequate for you.
(actually it should even be more than adequate for almost everyone).
>
>
> Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> If you want to try a really cheap, but really working one: I have a
>>> Behringer ACA222. Not good enough for the Pros and Studios, but I am
>> quite
>>
>> UCA222. It seems more or less identical to the UCA202. And the quality is
>> actually good. 16 bit 44.1 or 4800 (Note someone who tells you that you
>> need
>> 9600 or higher, and 24 bits does not understand sound at all--The 24bit
>> might
>> if you are really lucky, buy you and additional 15dB (3 bits) of
>> headroom, but
>> almost certainly the rest of your sound chain will add more than 15dB of
>> noise
>> anyway (preamps, amps, etc)) . The Behringer is very good and very cheap
>> ( and
>> sometimes you can be lucky that the two are not contradictory) sound
>> card. And
>> having usb rather than internal saves you from a huge amount of internal
>> electronic noise inside the machine. The only "problem" is that the
>> Behringer has RCA plugs, so you might need to carry around an extra
>> converter
>> cable or two.
>> The other problem is that the headphone jack is high impedance, so some
>> headphones (low impedance) would sound terrible with them.
>>
>>> happy with it. USB, stereo line in/out, headphone out. It's all I need
>> for
>>> simple digital recording and playback, and to bypass my laptop's
>> inferior
>>> internal soundcard.
>>
>> Yes. It is way better than those.
>
> Thank you! That sounds like exactly what I was looking for.
> No point in perfect killing off very good. Most of the sound
> improvement one gets after the samples get wider than 16 bits per
> channel is inaudible unless one has extremely good ears and the
> sound source is free of noise.

And even then is inaudible. 
>
> Martin
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