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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic > patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are > consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, > J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity > planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user