On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:41:02AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > you're "friends who ought to know more about these things" don't know > enough. consumer audio devices may (and do) suffer from this, but > serious pro/pro-sumer devices do not. its not even required that the > analog i/o be outside the box - lots of people love the iZ RADAR system > and it puts all of its converters *inside* a 4U chassis with a regular > intel-based computer. of course, iZ does know a bit about high end power > regulation and converter clock coupling :) Another example: the Delta 66 and Delta 44 do conversion inside the chassis as well. Noise specs are still pretty darn good for the money. The Delta 1010 puts the converters outside the box and does have a slightly better S/N ratio. But frankly, most of us with home studios will struggle to get a quiet enough recording environment that *acoustic* noises don't totally obscure the noise floor of the 66 or 44. To me, the attraction of firewire is purely its ease of portability. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
