[LAU] Card for bit perfect SPDIF throughput

[Clemens Ladisch]

Mark Constable wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a couple of ALSA-safe cards that
> will provide "bit perfect" SPDIF throughput ?
> 
> In other words, if I play back a 44.1khtz CD that the
> card will not resample the signal, at all, on the way
> through to the SPDIF output.

Any card with a CMI8738 or CMI8768 chip.  The analog quality,
especially that of the 8738, is lousy, but they can do bit-
perfect playback and capture of digital data.


HTH
Clemens