Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] External DAC for mastering use?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 19:43:27 EET
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:34:02AM -0800, R Parker wrote:
> Daniel, I didn't catch your initial message. Why do
> you want to do D/A. I would maintain digital all the
> way unless I've got some external analog gear that is
> very high quality.
You have to listen to it at some point :)
> I've never noticed any electrical related noise in my
> computer but then I don't have any analog in that
> system so there probably wouldn't be any. Is this
> assumption consistent with your understanding of the
> problem?
My understanding is that the problems come from fluctions in the PCs power
supply as it shared by the processor, PCI cards, disks, ...
I'd guess the electrical load in a mixer is be fairly constant. I dont
understand electrical stuff though.
- Steve
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