[linux-audio-user] external sound card

Brian Redfern bredfern at calarts.edu
Mon Apr 14 03:08:00 EDT 2003


Edirol has an audio out only with rca outs and doesn't need extra sound,
its only 16 bit 4100khz, but should be pretty well perfoming, they're
cheap too, probably around $60 used, some people also had talked about
being able to use the iMic with audio output, and that doesn't need extra
power.

http://www.brianredfern.org

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 toby at tobiah.org wrote:

> 
> > is it capable of full duplex (digital in and digital out)? and if so - does
> > it do it on Linux? What kind of latencies are we talking about here? (just
> > curious - have a laptop myself with USB ports (no PCMCIA))...
> > 
> 
> The problem with the M-audio usb stuff is that it
> needs a very specific quality of AC voltage to operate,
> which makes destroys the key advantage of having an audio
> interface on a laptop.  One company researched and developed
> a battery pack for these devices, but admits that hum
> is introduced into the signal.
> 
> I've been looking for a long time, and decided that the
> Apogee Mini-me is the best solution, but at $1200.00.
> 
> If you don't cream over 24/96k, you can look at the
> mbox.  Edirol has one with great features, but apparently
> the mic pre's are very noisy.  VXPocket looks good,
> but has no phantom power.  These can be had on ebay for
> a reasonable price however.
> 
> 
> 




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