Loki, Because doing D/A on an internal soundcard is noisy. I can hear the hum of my fans coming through my tweeters. Having the D/A outside of the box is quiet. Granted in a year or so i'll be replacing this with something better like a RME ADI-8 QS or universe willing a Lexicon MC12. I do know how to use ebay, but i don't have much money at the moment. $100 is about my limit to spend on this. Firewire? Last time i looked almost all of it was proprietary and not useable on linux. I would love to use firewire, but you can't run firewire D/As on Linux (RME, MOTU are out for sure). Yes, USB is ugly, but it's better then the noise you get using internal D/A. My next build will be much, much quieter, but even a fanless system still creates hum that can be heard through the speakers, doesn't it? Bearcat On Sunday 16 September 2007 in an email titled "Re: M-Audio Audiophile Line Level Inputs" Loki Davison wrote: >On 9/17/07, Bearcat M. Sandor <HomeTheater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> (Also sent to the Mythtv-users list) >> >> Folks, >> >> I have a Creative SoundBlaster Extigy, and it's just not good enough. It >> sounds fairly veiled and distorts quickly. I'm thinking of moving up to a >> M-Audio Audiophile USB. >> >> I use the line in jack on the soundblaster as the input for Mythtv, >> running the RCA jacks from my Dish Network box to the SB. Given that the >> audiophile has separate, balanced (TAS), if i got a rca-tas cable >> (assuming they exist) and run my Dish Network box into the left and right >> tas jacks would this work >> in the same way? My question about the jacks themselves, not Mythtv. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bearcat M. Sandor >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > >I klnow i have a said this 2 million times on the list but... is this >for a laptop? If not, why the hell would anyone in there right mind >want a usb soundcard? BAD. Get a pci card / firewire / cardbus card. >usb-audio isn't nice unless you are really short on cash and can't >work out how to use ebay... > >Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
