[linux-audio-user] Miscellaneous hardware/software questions

[Jason White]

I wish to thank mailing list participants for an informative discussion of my
software question.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the hardware question (reproduced below)
which I also raised?
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> I am looking for suitable hardware to handle digital i/o between a Linux
> system and an RME ADI-2 ad/da converter that I just bought. I don't need lots
> of channels, but reliability of the data transfer is important, including
> jitter reduction. An RME card would be excellent but it is somewhat outside my
> budget. Also, connectivity to a laptop would be desirable, suggesting either a
> USB interface or waiting until http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ (the Alsa
> firewire project) matures. I don't plan to run any OS besides Linux with this
> hardware, so Alsa support is crucial. As this is for home/personal use I'm not
> in a hurry. M-Audio hardware is high on my list of possibilities at the
> moment.
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