On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:25:44 +0100 Robert Jonsson <robert.jonsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 07.56, RTaylor wrote: > > :} I have one just like it... {Gigabyte no asus {8 drives}} > > 8 as in Eight? Drives as in Hard Disks? ;-) Yeah. 4 of them are swappable {drawers}. I keep backups, libraries and so on on disks {and dvds} I do video. Video requires lots of storage. {Most of my work is widescreen... {animated... not anamorphic} It suffers when I dump it to tape. HDs are relatively cheap. > > ...You need a better soundcard. > > For audio quality perhaps, but down to buffers of 512x2 the SB-Live should be > solid. Lives resample *everything* {even 41.4} to 41.4. Dvds are 48 {DVD music lets you use ungodly high sampling rates, DVDs don't cost that much more, are perfect for surround and I've seen some components lately {audiomidi.com I think} that are optimized for higher sampling rates ...there's beginning to be a real point to it.} . I don't know if you're familiar with the mess that resampling can make of your synch or not... it can make for a real mess. Besides... 24/96 just sounds so much better... and the cost of something like an audiofile or a terratec just isn't that much. -- See these tears so blue. An ageless heart that can never mend. Tears can never dry. A judgement made can never bend. ... And I've been putting out fire with gasoline... {Dave}