Hi, Am Montag, 17. September 2007 schrieb Loki Davison: > On 9/17/07, Bearcat M. Sandor <HomeTheater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Yeah, that fan-noise-myth some more! Unless your card has a microphone on-board (which I seriously doubt) it isn't picking up the fans noises but electrical interference. Please see the archives, this is a well discussed phenomenon. > > 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). > if your keen on firewire check out > http://www.ffado.org/ Here freebob does a good job with a presonus firepod. Good job = running stable for more than six hours with 5ms delay without xrun in a live job... But USB isn't that bad either. Except for the conceptional errors in USB in generel (that is way sometimes usb-devices even disks disappear and appear again, which is bad for audio (my hardware-dealer told me about this, I wouldn't believe it but now I am happy to have a firewire-card)). Have a nice week, Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
