Thank you. Are power-off pops a concern? I'm going straight from card to amp. Bearcat On Monday 17 September 2007 in an email titled "Re: M-Audio Audiophile Line Level Inputs" Folderol wrote: >On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:25:12 +0200 > >Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> Bearcat M. Sandor hat gesagt: // Bearcat M. Sandor 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. 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. >> >> But the M-Audio Audiophile USB is $250 according to m-audio.com, so >> it's out of your price range (and it's way overpriced anway IMO). The >> M-Audio Audiophile *PCI* is much less than $100, so why not buy this? >> As I wrote in another mailing list's thread with you, I can (almost) >> assure you that it won't be affected by the fan noise. >> >> Ciao > >I have the 2496 card, which I guess is the one you are talking about. >I've used it in two quite different machines, and never had the >slightest problem with noise etc. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
