Steve, Steve Harris wrote: >As Frank pointed out most USB devices will /work/, I said "avoid USB if >you can" because theres not much point using USB if you have PCI slots >free. > > It's true that many PCI soundcards have better capabilities than their USB counterparts. And at certain levels (multichannel in particular), the throughput exceeds USB 1.0 and you would need a USB 2.0 high-speed USB sound device to match that. However, besides the obvious portability advantage of USB devices, there is one other interesting feature of USB audio, which is to isolate the A/D and D/A converters outside the generally noisy computer case, and this can provide higher audio quality than an internal PCI device. But only the higher-end USB devices would really have that advantage. I have used some low-end ones that were just as noisy as the first ISA Soundblaster 1.0 (Edirol UA-1A if you must know). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3589 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20040218/f0fbdfc8/smime-0001.bin
