Re: [LAU] Focusrite Saffire 6 USB Audio Interface

From: Hartmut Noack <zettberlin@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Sep 14 2011 - 11:12:14 EEST

Am 13.09.2011 22:54, schrieb Moshe Werner:
> http://www.sounddevices.com/products/usbpre2.htm
>
> Have you looked at this one?
>
>> From my experience Sounddevices products are reliable and have superb audio
> quality.

... and this seems to have a price-tag on it.

It is sold here for 860,- Euros -- the Focusrite would be 175,-

Enybody out there, who knows reliable and Linux-proof USB2-devices for
say, less than 250,- ?

Preferably devices, that are available in stores...

> I've used their on location mixer and the pre's and AD is outstanding. Never
> used the usb device, but maybe someone else did...
> On their site they state that the usbpre2 is supported under Linux.
> Interesting.
>
> Hope this will be helpful,
>
> Moshe
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Aurélien Leblond<blablack@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>> Any issues or happy stories about this Saffire USB interface? I'm
>>> planning to buy one usb interface soon.
>>
>> Sorry never tried this one...
>>
>>> Also any reliable USB audio device with pre-amps.
>> The Edirol UA-25Ex is very good and very well supported in Linux.
>> Mine has served me well for years.
>>
>> One thing though: if your USB port is of type EHCI, check exactly
>> which version you have (using lspci) and google it before!
>> I'm saying this because I changed laptop few months ago, and some EHCI
>> USB ports have a bug that makes Jack/Alsa and USB 1 soundcard not
>> working at all...
>>
>> I'm now using a M-Audio Fast-Track Ultra (USB2, so I don't have issues
>> with EHCI anymore), but it's not 100% supported yet (although the Alsa
>> developers are working on it)...
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Aurélien
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