2009/1/15 Bearcat M. Şandor <hometheater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Have you thought of buying a decent pci sound card? A PCI solution >> would mostly likely be better in almost every way. >> You can choose a level of price quality, and > 8 channel out is easy >> to find. My echo 3g does that fine, with no arseing around and i would >> suspect superior sound quality, if not put and DAC you like on the >> ADAT out... ;) >> >> Loki > I have actually. I'm thinking that i could get *fantastic* quality out of a > RME MADI and that multichannel converter they have. However, the inputs and 64 > channels ^o.0^ is overkill. > > If i get a good pci card and are therefore doing the D/A conversion in the box > how much do i need to worry about electrical isolation and noise and all that? > D/A conversion isn't done in the box with the sound card i mentioned, the echo 3g i have. Google for pics. But on cards where it is, sounds quality / isolation / noise is still far better than most usb cards. The whole usb / out of box thing is cheesy sales pitch basically. Get a cheap pci card => be happy. Look at anything with envy chip basically and m-audio delta, echo's cards, etc. Should find a much better setup than a bunch of dodgy usb things. > than one card is a really bad idea unless they are designed for it, and from my experience, usb audio is a really bad idea on it own ;) Loki _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
