[LAU] M-Audio Audiophile Line Level Inputs

[Bearcat M. Sandor]

Loki,

Because doing D/A on an internal soundcard is noisy. I can hear the hum of my 
fans coming through my tweeters. Having the D/A outside of the box is quiet.  
Granted in a year or so i'll be replacing this with something better like a 
RME ADI-8 QS or universe willing a Lexicon MC12.

I do know how to use ebay, but i don't have much money at the moment. $100 is 
about my limit to spend on this.  Firewire? Last time i looked almost all of 
it was proprietary and not useable on linux.  I would love to use firewire, 
but you can't run firewire D/As on Linux (RME, MOTU are out for sure).

Yes, USB is ugly, but it's better then the noise you get using internal D/A.  
My next build will be much, much quieter, but even a fanless system still 
creates hum that can be heard through the speakers, doesn't it?

Bearcat

On Sunday 16 September 2007 in an email titled "Re: [LAU] M-Audio Audiophile 
Line Level Inputs" Loki Davison wrote:
>On 9/17/07, Bearcat M. Sandor <HomeTheater at feline-soul.com> wrote:
>> (Also sent to the Mythtv-users list)
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I have a Creative SoundBlaster Extigy, and it's just not good enough. It
>> sounds fairly veiled and distorts quickly.  I'm thinking of moving up to a
>> M-Audio Audiophile USB.
>>
>> I use the line in jack on the soundblaster as the input for Mythtv,
>> running the RCA jacks from my Dish Network box to the SB. Given that the
>> audiophile has separate, balanced (TAS), if i got a rca-tas cable
>> (assuming they exist) and run my Dish Network box into the left and right
>> tas jacks would this work
>> in the same way?  My question about the jacks themselves, not Mythtv.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bearcat M. Sandor
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>
>I klnow i have a said this 2 million times on the list but... is this
>for a laptop? If not, why the hell would anyone in there right mind
>want a usb soundcard? BAD. Get a pci card / firewire / cardbus card.
>usb-audio isn't nice unless you are really short on cash and can't
>work out how to use ebay...
>
>Loki