Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] A machine for live gigging?
From: Julien Pierre (madbrain_AT_rawbw.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 11:36:15 EET
Steve,
Steve Harris wrote:
>As Frank pointed out most USB devices will /work/, I said "avoid USB if
>you can" because theres not much point using USB if you have PCI slots
>free.
>
>
It's true that many PCI soundcards have better capabilities than their
USB counterparts. And at certain levels (multichannel in particular),
the throughput exceeds USB 1.0 and you would need a USB 2.0 high-speed
USB sound device to match that.
However, besides the obvious portability advantage of USB devices, there
is one other interesting feature of USB audio, which is to isolate the
A/D and D/A converters outside the generally noisy computer case, and
this can provide higher audio quality than an internal PCI device. But
only the higher-end USB devices would really have that advantage. I have
used some low-end ones that were just as noisy as the first ISA
Soundblaster 1.0 (Edirol UA-1A if you must know).
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