On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:56, Matthew Barber wrote: > -> > > and now m-audio. Here's to German audio excellence! Those cold winters > > drive you indoors to tinker with great machines and perfect them, I > > guess. :) > > I don't think M-Audio is a german company, though. And while M-Audio > makes some great products they also make some very understandard ones: > Most of their USB audio cards are very hard to get to work on Linux, > if at all, contrary to what M-Audio says on their website.<- > > > About M-Audio... we had been using a Delta 1010 in our studio, with some > heavy 96k usage under RH9 and basically a CCRMA setup. We had two of > these cards fry and become totally unusable - they had a terrible > high-pitched hum and pretty much no audio output. We also had a problem with some of the 1010's. The audio sort of died and the power led in the front panel of the rack mounted ad/da unit would not light properly. Turned out a couple of electrolytic capacitors in the internal power supply voltage doubler had died. We just changed them... -- Fernando
