[LAU] Decent but not necessarily pro quality USB audio for laptop?

[david]

Tapani Sysimetsä wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> If you have a PCMCIA slot, and only need to use the soundcard with your 
> laptop, I'd recommend Echo Indigo IO. I bought mine second hand for 
> about 100 e, and have not regretted. Has worked flawlessly with all 
> Debian based distros I have tried so far, latency around/less than 
> 10msec with Jack. (Not to say USB-devices wouldn't work just as fine 
> with Linux nowadays, I just don't have experience about them.)

Thanks, but 100E secondhand means it's probably well out of my price 
range. My laptop does have a PCMCIA slot. I have a compact flash card 
reader that plugs into it, but data transfers are very slow through it. 
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the silly laptop shares interrupts 
with PCMCIA, video and audio hardware!

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David
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