On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Peter Nelson <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:57 -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: > >> The thing that's a complete showstopper on the Audiophile 24/96 is the >> lack of balanced I/O. You gotta use Balanced I/O into and out of a >> computer, with unbalanced connections through "telescoping shield" >> technique >> ( http://www.mhsecure.com/technotes/v5MixerOverview/Telescoping_Shield.png ) unless you like having your sound all fuzzed out by ground & clock noise from the computer. This works well with the Delta 66 since it appears to have a reasonably well isolated analog and digital ground-planes on the card... > > But do bear in mind that the ins and outs on the break out box on the > Delta 44/66 are not balanced... The jacks are 1/4 inch TRS (tip, ring, sleeve). They are balanced unless you use a TS cable to connect them, or the jack on the other end is not TRS. -- joq _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user