On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP> > Oh, that just takes more expensive gear :) But, generally, out board > will be cleaner than a computer sound card??? Seriously, the more I > can do out side of the computer box, the more comfortable I am. > > Thanks. Generally speaking, all other things being equal, external gear is typically quieter/more accurate than internal gear. It's not sitting in a noisy electrical environment. (Electric & magnetic fields created by switching power supplies, processors, fan motors, etc.) External gear may have better power - less ripple, better load regulation, etc., and better clocking which allows it to do a better job. That's an easy generalization though as most of the stuff that goes inside a PC just uses cheap commercial grade A/D & D/A converters while much external stuff, most especially good pro equipment, will use a much better class of converter which means at that first/last critical step the job is just plain done better. HTH, Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
