Re: [linux-audio-user] M-Audio

On 21-Jun-2004 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: } On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:56, Matthew Barber wrote: } > -> } > > and now m-audio. Here's to German audio excellence! Those cold winters } > > drive you indoors to tinker with great machines and perfect them, I } > > guess. :) } > } > I don't think M-Audio is a german company, though. And while M-Audio } > makes some great products they also make some very understandard ones: } > Most of their USB audio cards are very hard to get to work on Linux, } > if at all, contrary to what M-Audio says on their website.<- } > } > } > About M-Audio... we had been using a Delta 1010 in our studio, with some } > heavy 96k usage under RH9 and basically a CCRMA setup. We had two of } > these cards fry and become totally unusable - they had a terrible } > high-pitched hum and pretty much no audio output. } } We also had a problem with some of the 1010's. The audio sort of died } and the power led in the front panel of the rack mounted ad/da unit } would not light properly. Turned out a couple of electrolytic capacitors } in the internal power supply voltage doubler had died. We just changed } them... :} Just get a 66... midi and excellent sound at a halfway decent price...