[LAU] Card for bit perfect SPDIF throughput

[Lars Luthman]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 08:49 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 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.

If that includes CMI8738-MC6 you can get it on e.g. a Terratec Aureon
5.1 PCI for approximately 20€. It works well for SPDIF out here, haven't
tried input.


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