15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
8:39 a.m.
On Thursday 15 January 2009 09:46:47 david wrote:
Bearcat M. Şandor wrote:
This is not a question about quality. Its about consumer cards allowing
several apps to open parallel streams. (One of the first to start this was the
soundblaster live.)
This comes with a huge quality drawback: As these different streams have
possibly different sampling rates and bit depths, the hardware chip is re-
sampling (and the intel hda is resampling everything to 48kHz). You can be
sure that these resampling-algorithms are not as good as the ones in the high-
quality range like the secret rabbit...
And alsa has worked around this "only one app at a time" problem long ago,
only distributions didn't pick it up the right way.
Arnold
I actually have a M-Audio delta 1010LT. I found i
could not play two
streams at the same time. So i hooked things up to the intelHD (onboard
sound) and was amazed at how much better it sounded. I was dumbstruck. A
cloudiness was gone and imaging was much more precise. I don't know
what to say save that my intelhd may have advanced past the Delta 1010LT.
It's an old card and this board is only year old.
I seriously doubt the HDA
has gotten better than a 1010LT. More likely
you didn't have it or something else on the system setup right.