> Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:41:29 +0100 > From: Carlo Capocasa <capocasa@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Cheap Ass Gear > To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <du220n$56o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 > > After throughly discussing the matter with myself in one of the recent > threads, I have decided to buy one of these babies. > > http://www.musicgate.ch/oxid.php/sid/ > 80a0861528715ba10d991d222b7cea8e/cl/ > details/cnid/6de41fdfcc49e8d26.98526461/ > anid/a64439d2dcebda552.04446416/Samson-C01U/ > > (For an explicit photograph of it it is necessary to piece together the > URL, but this is probably not the greatest length you have gone to to > find pleasing imagery online) > > I've been screaming all around how there is no linear scale of quality > and how everything is subjective while secretly drooling over Paul > Davis' latest phidelity discoveries. > > That's pretty hypocritical to say the least. I have one of them. It works fine with Linux, but it's noisy as hell. The a/d is fixed gain, and the level control is digital after the a/d. Not good for noise performance, but you don't have to worry about dither. :) If you don't need the portability aspect you will honestly get better results with the non usb version and a tiny behringer desk for the pre and an old soundblaster live card for your a/ds. The non usb version is a little cheaper, so getting it and a few other bits and pieces should not cost much more. > > It so happens that I'm living on a series of loans the Swiss government > is issuing to me on grounds I don't get into trouble (it has been a big > sacrifice) which aren't exactly designed to match up with the latest and > greatest in the QBDD* tested section of Pro Audio hardware designed to > be pleasing to people who bias themselves by reading the specs before > listening in order to give quality statements that are generally > accepted as non-biased. The good old government. :) > > Whew :) > > And since I have to decided to change this situation purely over sine > waves and my own sexuality (recorded in the waves) it makes sense to run > low overhead for a while. I've seen these two chicks recently, one of > them fat, causing quite a stir in me playing UKULELEs. One of them > smiles heftily enough to move a jackhammer through freshly pressed and > carefully crafted brick pavement (or whatever), and I like that. > > http://www.thehazzards.com > > I actually bought a CD from them, which I will never listen to, they > sound awful, but for some reason I wanted to give them money and there's > a pair of red luscious lips on the cover. A good album cover is equivilent to 4 extra bits of resolution in the recording. This may not be true, but it's a SCIENTIFIC FACT. > > Wish me luck with my el-cheapo USB mike! I'll be posting irrevent music > soon. Nobody will be speared. Uh, spared. I think. That's Carlo > Capocasa, reporting live from my uncleanly apartment in St. Gallen, > Switzerland. > > Carlo > > *Quadruple Blind, Deaf and Dumb >
