since my ice1712 based card is kinda problematic (dropouts) and it seems like this is not going to be fixed soon, I am looking for alternatives. First thing that comes to mind: use a cheap soundcard with crappy analog parts that has digitan in and out and then connect a good external da/ad converter to it.
question 1: is this a good idea and will this lead to the excellent recording quality I want to achieve? question 2: what are cheap soundcards that work without problems in alsa (e.g. without dropouts) and that have digital in and out? question 3: any recommendable high quality external da/ad converters? how much would I have to pay for one of these to get recording/playback quality that is comparable to the Terratec EWX 24/96 card? (24 bit, 96kHz, or so it claims. I am only using it up to 16 bit/48 kHz, but still the sound quality is far superiour to what I was used to from other cards) thanx for any answers -- Michael Hellwig aka The Eye olymp.idle.at admin check out http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csaa5128 for gpg public key and don't hesitate to look at http://laerm.or.at ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
