10 May
2004
10 May
'04
11:51 p.m.
So how about this one? - Creative Labs SoundBlaster
MP3+ USB Audio unit
Yeah, it's a cheapo, about 40 bucks at Fry's.
Just my 1/2 cent. USB has no latency or bandwidth guarantees on any aspect
of its design. I would strongly suggest that you'll have much better
results with software/hardware integration and smooth-running performance if
you use a real PCI audio card instead of a USB device.
All I hear are problems from people who own USB audio devices.
At least with Firewire (IEEE-1394), there is an explicit isochronous
transfer mode which at least pretends to maintain a QoS delivery mode.
Shagrat, formerly of Cirith Ungol, maintains the Dark Lord threw away all of
his USB audio replies,
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