On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:32:19 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:44:39 +0100, Johannes Kroll wrote: > >There is a problem with my Scarlett where sometimes I get horrible > >crackling noise. Restarting JACK fixes this. Could this be your issue > >as well? > > No, I had this with the Presonus, but choosing another USB slot fixed > the issue. > > Missing alsamixer controls aren't a problem for me. Don't you want to adjust gain, change routing etc? I do that often. > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 18:45:45 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > >The Scarlett series however is pretty much crap. > >Just terminate the input with 200 Ohm, start jnoisemeter and start > >wondering which award those "award winning preamps" won. > > I read an old thread about this. Fons replied ironical "a marketing > award" or something like this. The outputs have less gain, but aren't > noisy. I didn't test the inputs. I agree the inputs aren't great. They are pretty noisy. Probably a company-internal award - have 3 people design a preamp and "award" the one with the best price-performance ration, or something like that. ;) Pure marketing. I didn't have quite as bad an impression as you describe though. > This btw. would be the only thing close to a measurement I could do: > In regards to subjective audio quality I could record a WAV from the > analog outputs to the analog inputs of the Focusrite and for comparison > do the same with the RME card and the ADA8000. Then it would be possible > to listen to the original WAV and the recorded WAVs or to take a look > at a spectral analysis. So you would mix the input & output results together... But it would be possible to upload the files somewhere. I would be interested to see this, as I don't have another interface comparable to the Focusrite. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
