[linux-audio-user] M-Audio

[RickTaylor at Speakeasy.Net]

On 21-Jun-2004 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
}  On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:56, Matthew Barber wrote:
} > ->
} > > and now m-audio.  Here's to German audio excellence!  Those cold winters 
} > > drive you indoors to tinker with great machines and perfect them, I 
} > > guess. :)
} > 
} > I don't think M-Audio is a german company, though. And while M-Audio
} > makes some great products they also make some very understandard ones:
} > Most of their USB audio cards are very hard to get to work on Linux,
} > if at all, contrary to what M-Audio says on their website.<-
} > 
} > 
} > About M-Audio... we had been using a Delta 1010 in our studio, with some
} > heavy 96k usage under RH9 and basically a CCRMA setup.  We had two of
} > these cards fry and become totally unusable - they had a terrible
} > high-pitched hum and pretty much no audio output. 
}  
}  We also had a problem with some of the 1010's. The audio sort of died
}  and the power led in the front panel of the rack mounted ad/da unit
}  would not light properly. Turned out a couple of electrolytic capacitors
}  in the internal power supply voltage doubler had died. We just changed
}  them...


 :} Just get a 66... midi and excellent sound at a halfway decent price...

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Date: 21-Jun-2004
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