[LAU] recommendations for usb sound card?

[James Stone]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:52:17AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> James Stone hat gesagt: // James Stone wrote:
> 
> > I am wanting to use the eeepc for a mobile sound generation unit,
> > but unfortunately the gfx card and sound card share the same
> > interrupt. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good usb
> > soundcard that works well with Linux/Jack, and is not too
> > expensive?
> 
> That's hard to answer: What does "works well" and "not too expensive"
> mean to you? Is a 10 $/Euro soundstick enough? How many channels do
> you want? Midi? Balanced in/outs? Mic preamps? 24bit? LAU cannot do
> this market research for you.
> 
> Some general remarks: Practically every USB-1.1 soundcard on the
> market (except some M-Audio models) is well supported by ALSA. So I'd
> suggest you check out some online vendors for a card that you like
> feature- and pricewise then g**gle that model with "linux ALSA" added
> and/or check qbik.ch for user comments.

Thanks.

Do you have any idea what kind of latency under jack I would
expect from a CM-106 based card vs. a "Burr-Brown from TI"
chipset (Behringer UCA 202).

James