[LAU] Audiophile 2496 or the Delta 66

Peter Nelson peter at fuzzle.org
Wed Apr 21 10:17:14 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:57 -0700, Niels Mayer wrote:

> The thing that's a complete showstopper on the Audiophile 24/96 is the
> lack of balanced I/O. You gotta use Balanced I/O into and out of a
> computer, with unbalanced connections through "telescoping shield"
> technique
> ( http://www.mhsecure.com/technotes/v5MixerOverview/Telescoping_Shield.png ) unless you like having your sound all fuzzed out by ground & clock noise from the computer. This works well with the Delta 66 since it appears to have a reasonably well isolated  analog and digital ground-planes on the card...

But do bear in mind that the ins and outs on the break out box on the
Delta 44/66 are not balanced...

Peter



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