On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Paul M <l...@no-tek.com> wrote: > On 14/06/2010, at 6:54 PM, Jan Stary wrote: >
>> It would be my guess that this is the audio chip that's integrated >> with the Asus P5QPL-AM motherboard. If you are really after "best >> transfer quality", you might want to use something else in the >> first place. > > Good point, thanks for the reality check. > Most of what I have to do is not the best quality anyway, but that > doesn't mean I'm happy to introduce unnecessary generation loss by > being sloppy. There is some though that is very good, so that may well > need something better. I heard the Griffin iMic was to be discontinued, but mine is supported under OpenBSD. Your best bet for clean audio is a USB-attached device. Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard.