[linux-audio-user] Re : Poor SN ratio with high quality sound - Linux-audio-user

24 Mar 2004

...
 Gentlemen:

I follow this list from the digest, so I could have
missed a critical 
post. If 
so, please point me to the thread. 

I have two PCs I use almost exclusively for sound
editing (with ReZound 
--- 
highly recommended for its crossfade ability). I
record classical music 
on an 
Alesis MasterLink at 96kHz/24 bits, so I have quite a
SN ratio to begin 
with. 
I need to edit the gaps between tracks where I want to >preserve the 
...
 hall 
ambience.  Whether I use an RME Digi96 PAD or an
M-Audio Delta 44, the 
signal 
I get out of the sound editor is so low that I hear a
lot of hum and 
other 
extraneous noise by the time I crank my amplifier's
volume up enough to 
hear 
what is between the pieces. This noise is _not_ there
when I burn a 
CD-R, 
however. 

I assume this means I need to send a digital signal
(preferably 96/24 
and 
lower) to an external DAC before sending the signal to >my monitoring 
...
 system. 
Would someone be kind enough to explain how to get a
signal out of a PC 
that 
is fully equivalent in S/N to the CD-Rs the computer
can burn?  
You just have to get out a 16 bit 44,1khz signal, just
like on a cd. There is no use for you to have a 24/96
signal for monitoring and wondering all the time if it
would be the same on the CD... And I'm wondering if it
possible to get a 24/96 signal out with the RME...

If you wanna get digital out of the  RME, you've got
nothing to do, just plug the little cable converter on
the sub-d connector ont the board, and play music, the
monitoring stream is copy on the digital out by the
board.

I don't know about the delta 44...

Bye

François 

...

Many thanks, 

John  

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