20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
12:28 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:59:11 +0200
Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote:
Hallo,
Folderol hat gesagt: // Folderol wrote:
All 2496s are Audiophiles but not all Audiophiles are 2496s!
Incidentally, i just checked on the m-audio website and the 2496 is
about half the price of the USB unit. So why buy USB when it's not as
good and more expensive!
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Something confusing here. The 2496 is NOT a USB
card, it's a
conventional pci one.
M-Audio produces both an Audiophile PCI and a Audiophile USB. Because
the AP-PCI is such a good and popular card, probably M-Audio saw fit
to market a "broken" USB card under the same name because otherwise it
wouldn't have found any buyers at all. ;)
Anyway, I think, in recent 2.6 kernels/ALSA-CVS, a lot of work on
getting this USB card to run was made, so if one is forced to use one,
s/he might be more lucky now and should try the latest and greatest
ALSA and follow the included documentation [1]. But still I would
avoid to buy one if shopping for a new USB card.
[1]
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt
Ciao