On Thursday 15 January 2009 09:46:47 david wrote: > Bearcat M. Şandor wrote: > > I actually have a M-Audio delta 1010LT. I found i could not play two > > streams at the same time. So i hooked things up to the intelHD (onboard > > sound) and was amazed at how much better it sounded. I was dumbstruck. A > > cloudiness was gone and imaging was much more precise. I don't know > > what to say save that my intelhd may have advanced past the Delta 1010LT. > > It's an old card and this board is only year old. > I seriously doubt the HDA has gotten better than a 1010LT. More likely > you didn't have it or something else on the system setup right. This is not a question about quality. Its about consumer cards allowing several apps to open parallel streams. (One of the first to start this was the soundblaster live.) This comes with a huge quality drawback: As these different streams have possibly different sampling rates and bit depths, the hardware chip is re- sampling (and the intel hda is resampling everything to 48kHz). You can be sure that these resampling-algorithms are not as good as the ones in the high- quality range like the secret rabbit... And alsa has worked around this "only one app at a time" problem long ago, only distributions didn't pick it up the right way. Arnold
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