[linux-audio-user] Which audio card to use?

Jan "Evil Twin" Depner eviltwin69 at cableone.net
Thu Jan 16 19:28:01 EST 2003


Hoontech has a great Knowledge Base
(http://www.staudio.de/kb/index.asp?kb=staudio) that covers problems
with their card (DSP24) and other hardware.  It's really for any card
with the envy24 chipset.  The ATI Rage is listed.  It's alsoa problem
with some VIA chipset motherboards.  I dumped my ATI and got a $35
NVIDIA card.  Works fine.

Jan


On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:42, Brian Redfern wrote:
> You have to be carefull with ice1712 cards if you run ATI Rage card for
> video, I had that combo and couldn't get an undistorted recording with my
> Audiophile card, then I sold the Audiophile and went back to using my
> sblive card and all the latency issues went away.
> 
> http://www.brianredfern.org
> 
> On 16 Jan 2003, Jan "Evil Twin" Depner wrote:
> 
> > Paul,
> > 
> > 	I've been reading some stuff lately (I wish I could remember where)
> > about problems with USB and audio.  I wouldn't recommend that path.  If
> > he's going to go with an ice1712/envy24 card and he wants to put
> > together a small studio then the best bets are the M Audio Delta 44,
> > Delta 66, Delta 1010, Terratec EWS88MT, or ST Audio C-Port DSP2000
> > depending on how many channels you need and what features you want.  I'm
> > using the DSP2000 with no problems and I know that there are quite a few
> > people using the Delta cards (I'm not sure about the Delta 1010LT
> > though).
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:23:44AM -0600, Richards, Ed wrote:
> > > > Here is another good one. 
> > > > 
> > > > Ed Richards
> > > > ?
> > > > http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/audio_quality_HOWTO.htm
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the complement, but wow is it old.
> > > 
> > > But the point still stands that your best bet for a good
> > > home studio is either an ice1712 based card, e.g.
> > > the M-audio Delta series,  or one of the RME cards.
> > > 
> > > there are now some interesting usb devices that are reported
> > > to work but I don't know anything else.
> > > 
> > > Before buying anything, I'd search teh ALSA list archives
> > > and the linux-audio-user archives for reports of success or trouble 
> > > with the card you're interested in.
> > > 
> > > Note that the ice1712 cards are all a little different...
> > > some work easily out-of-the-box, some have given people trouble.
> > > And some versions of ALSA have been more or less broken with
> > > these cards. Get the latest ALSA, maybe even from CVS.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 
> > > Paul Winkler
> > > http://www.slinkp.com
> > > Look! Up in the sky! It's THE WENCH!
> > > (courtesy of isometric.spaceninja.com)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 





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