[linux-audio-user] Hardware recommendations for recording under kernel 2.6/Alsa

Alexander MacLennan maclenna at cs.curtin.edu.au
Mon Aug 23 05:42:27 EDT 2004


Ah, I was assuming that the I/O was analogue

But for $10US for a card based on these, would the clock be very tight?

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:32, Tim Orford wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 03:25:04PM +0800, Alexander MacLennan wrote:
> > You can find this chipset in quite a few cheap sound ( not audio cards )
> > I use one for music playback in a shop, I wouldn't use it for anything
> > more than that. Its on par with a soundblaster / onboard motherboard
> > sound solution
> 
> the Cmi8738 is a very good quality cost effective way of doing
> non-resampling 16/24bit digital i/o.
> 
> that is not true of Creative cards.
> 
> even the analogue output on some of the better implementations
> (eg Maudio) is not substantially worse than something like an RME Pad
> which in many ways provides the same functionality for about 3 times
> the price.
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