Ah, I was assuming that the I/O was analogue But for $10US for a card based on these, would the clock be very tight? On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:32, Tim Orford wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:25:04PM +0800, Alexander MacLennan wrote: > > You can find this chipset in quite a few cheap sound ( not audio cards ) > > I use one for music playback in a shop, I wouldn't use it for anything > > more than that. Its on par with a soundblaster / onboard motherboard > > sound solution > > the Cmi8738 is a very good quality cost effective way of doing > non-resampling 16/24bit digital i/o. > > that is not true of Creative cards. > > even the analogue output on some of the better implementations > (eg Maudio) is not substantially worse than something like an RME Pad > which in many ways provides the same functionality for about 3 times > the price. -- Alexander MacLennan PhD Student Curtin University of Technology +61 8 9266 2129