Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] M-Audio
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 23:25:50 EEST
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:56, Matthew Barber wrote:
> ->
> > and now m-audio. Here's to German audio excellence! Those cold winters
> > drive you indoors to tinker with great machines and perfect them, I
> > guess. :)
>
> I don't think M-Audio is a german company, though. And while M-Audio
> makes some great products they also make some very understandard ones:
> Most of their USB audio cards are very hard to get to work on Linux,
> if at all, contrary to what M-Audio says on their website.<-
>
>
> About M-Audio... we had been using a Delta 1010 in our studio, with some
> heavy 96k usage under RH9 and basically a CCRMA setup. We had two of
> these cards fry and become totally unusable - they had a terrible
> high-pitched hum and pretty much no audio output.
We also had a problem with some of the 1010's. The audio sort of died
and the power led in the front panel of the rack mounted ad/da unit
would not light properly. Turned out a couple of electrolytic capacitors
in the internal power supply voltage doubler had died. We just changed
them...
-- Fernando
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