Re: [LAU] recommendations for usb sound card?

From: Frank Barknecht <fbar@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Mar 09 2008 - 16:26:56 EET

Hallo,
Hartmut Noack hat gesagt: // Hartmut Noack wrote:

> Frank Barknecht schrieb:
> > All USB cards (in ALSA) have the same latency.
>
> Is that a fact? [SHOCK] So, if I use a Edirol UA-101 for appr. 550 Eur
> it would force me to use the same settings for jack (for 17ms that is)
> as my crude Behringer U-Control??

USB-audio-guru Clemens Ladisch on LAU in 2005:

  "Due to how the USB protocol works, all USB audio devices have the
  same latency."

http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2005/06/0200.html

Which might also mean that any vendor bragging about how the latency
of his USB device is lower than that of the competition is lying. ;)

Ciao

-- 
 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
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