[linux-audio-user] M-Audio

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 14:32, RickTaylor at Speakeasy.Net wrote:
> 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...

66 == 4 channels, sp/dif, no midi
1010 == 8 channels, sp/dif, midi

Different cards for different needs. 
-- Fernando