[LAU] nice piece of USB hardware for 7.1 output

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:25:56PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> in case someone is looking for a similar problem solver:
> i just received an esi gigaport hd+, which is a usb1
> class-compliant, bus powered audio interface that provides 8
> discrete unbalanced audio outs. at 135€, it's not quite a steal, but
> it solves one problem: to be able to listen to 5.1/7.1 content with
> a laptop.
> 
> it works with jack out of the box and comes with two headphone outs,
> one of which plays outs1/2, the other plays a pair-wise mix of all
> eight outs. there is a row of flashing blue leds as "signal present"
> indicators, although their threshold is a bit on the high side.
> 
> sound quality is appropriate, i gave it a quick listen and there is
> nothing obviously wrong.

Interesting device... If and when you find the time, could you hook it
up to a Micstasy line input and Jaaa... ?

Ciao,

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