Re: [LAU] SBLive! Platinum [CT4760P] Line-In

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Phillips wrote: Why do you think the SBLive is not sufficiently serious. That is to say, what's the characteristic of a high-end computer sound card that makes it recommendable for serious work? I can imagine these as possible answers: 1.) Low noise characteristics, including power-line noise. But maybe power-line noise is less a function of the sound card, and more a function of the entire system and its relation to the power supply. 2.) Low harmonic distortion, though I would not thing HD is really a big deal in modern electronics. 3.) Is sample jitter a problem? 4.) Is sample width a problem? 5.) I can suppose that the interface is important. By this I mean the programming interface, and not the applications used to control the device. Since the latter are either Windows applications, or Linux, device independent applications, the device choice doesn't have that much to do with this. I really have no clue. I don't have a real application in mind. I'm just curious. If this has already been hashed out earlier in this thread, I apologize for repeating, and I'll withstand being ignored.