Jason White wrote: > I am looking for suitable hardware to handle digital i/o between a Linux > system and an RME ADI-2 ad/da converter that I just bought. I don't need lots > of channels, but reliability of the data transfer is important, including > jitter reduction. An RME card would be excellent but it is somewhat outside my > budget. Your requirements listed make me think that an RME card is definitely the way to go. But you say that the budget is a problem. Now, I always wanted a nice soundcard, with lots of inputs and proper ALSA support. I always imagined myself getting a Delta 1010, or similar. I would have preferred an RME card, but it just seemed way over my budget. However, I was casually browsing eBay one day, and ended up buying a second-hand RME DIGI9636 for ?77 (I'm in the UK). Ok, I had to buy a replacement EEPROM chip for it, (to make it work with PC hardware, rather than MAC). But, even then, the overall cost came to less than ?100. I also had to buy a Behringer ADA-8000 to convert the ADAT lightpipe connections to balanced analogue. But it sounds as though you already have hardware to do this. I appreciate that there are various reasons not to buy second-hand. It's risky - I didn't even know that the card I bought was definitely going to work! Also, there are no warranties, or hardware support. For this reason, I find myself looking around for another cheap RME card! Firstly, I could turn that other linux box into an addition to my studio... Also, it's always nice to have a backup if something breaks. I find all the software support I could ever need right here on this list (Thanks Paul!) Hope this helps Michael Nelson
