24 Jan
2013
24 Jan
'13
12:13 a.m.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
I have been reading what I can on audio interfaces... I am thinking there
are very few good ones. I am thinking that some parts of the system are
vastly over priced like ADAT and MADI interfaces, both of which seem to
cost about 10X (at least) what they should cost... like how come a Gb NIC
is well under $100 and MADI PCI(e) card (100Mb) is $800?
Gb NIC sales: in the millions
MADI PCI(e) card sales: low thousands if you are lucky, hundreds if not
For audio quality, it seems FW, USB and ethernet
_could_ give better
results if designed right.
none of them live "on the bus" the way a PCI card can. all of them are
subject to a separate clock, in addition to the audio sample clock and the
PCI bus clock (which is so high a frequency as to be mostly irrelevant).