Re: [LAU] New hardware setup for recording (not same as existing threads)

Am Montag, den 25.05.2015, 17:23 -0400 schrieb Martin Cracauer: That's easy: Speaking about Linux-support I don't know anything better than RME. I'm using an HDSP9652 for quite a while, now, and never had any problems. If you don't like PCI, there is also a successor with PCIe. My first A/D-converter was a Behringer ADA8000, too. After buying the RME my wallet was empty. :) After all, the Behringer device is o.k. - just had some trouble with a broken lightpipe-output (guess, they are using better ones in a later revision). What I don't like is the missing WordClock Out/Through. Keep in mind, they can only play 48000 Hz. But the HDSP sound great even at 48kHz/24bit. Surprisingly, the ADA8000 output seems to be a clone of the 48kHz-version of the RME Analogue Extension Boards ("AEB 4/8-O"), at least they are using the same chips. As I had a bit more money, I bought 2 Presonus DigiMax FS8, that doesn't sound significantly better, but have some nice features like 96kHz-support, WordClock-Out, WordClock-In termination and insert-channels. I wouldn't bet, the ADA 8200 is better than the ADA 8000. In the past, there have been some bad successors of good and surprisingly cheap Behringer-hardware. Greets! Mitsch