17 Sep
2007
17 Sep
'07
1:47 a.m.
Loki,
Because doing D/A on an internal soundcard is noisy. I can hear the hum of my
fans coming through my tweeters. Having the D/A outside of the box is quiet.
Granted in a year or so i'll be replacing this with something better like a
RME ADI-8 QS or universe willing a Lexicon MC12.
I do know how to use ebay, but i don't have much money at the moment. $100 is
about my limit to spend on this. Firewire? Last time i looked almost all of
it was proprietary and not useable on linux. I would love to use firewire,
but you can't run firewire D/As on Linux (RME, MOTU are out for sure).
Yes, USB is ugly, but it's better then the noise you get using internal D/A.
My next build will be much, much quieter, but even a fanless system still
creates hum that can be heard through the speakers, doesn't it?
Bearcat
On Sunday 16 September 2007 in an email titled "Re: [LAU] M-Audio Audiophile
Line Level Inputs" Loki Davison wrote:
On 9/17/07, Bearcat M. Sandor
<HomeTheater(a)feline-soul.com> wrote:
(Also sent to the Mythtv-users list)
Folks,
I have a Creative SoundBlaster Extigy, and it's just not good enough. It
sounds fairly veiled and distorts quickly. I'm thinking of moving up to a
M-Audio Audiophile USB.
I use the line in jack on the soundblaster as the input for Mythtv,
running the RCA jacks from my Dish Network box to the SB. Given that the
audiophile has separate, balanced (TAS), if i got a rca-tas cable
(assuming they exist) and run my Dish Network box into the left and right
tas jacks would this work
in the same way? My question about the jacks themselves, not Mythtv.
Thanks,
Bearcat M. Sandor
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I klnow i have a said this 2 million times on the list but... is this
for a laptop? If not, why the hell would anyone in there right mind
want a usb soundcard? BAD. Get a pci card / firewire / cardbus card.
usb-audio isn't nice unless you are really short on cash and can't
work out how to use ebay...
Loki