[linux-audio-user] JACK splat

Tim Orford tim at orford.org
Thu Sep 18 12:20:00 EDT 2003


> As someone else pointed out, doesn't using multiple apps place some
> interesting requirements on the hardware? What does the hardware do if the
> apps are running at different frequencies?

resample.

this is reputedly why the creative cards sound so poor. Even if
your stream is at the cards nominal rate of 48k, it still gets
resampled.

its quite an insidious degredation though. If you listen to the spdif
output of the sblive it seems to sound ok, but if you compare it to the output of
a 'proper' card then the difference is imediately apparent (if you
are sensitive to these things). A lot of detail and beauty is lost.


cheers
-- 
Tim Orford



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