On 2011-07-28, Eric Benjamin wrote:
One thing that I learned from those is that it's difficult to get high quality audio from a computer unless you have the converters be remote from the computer itself.
I don't know if this would pan out in practice, but I think it might... While outboard D/A converters are always of higher quality, they tend to run on their own oscillators. Which makes them rather difficult to synch/gang. The same goes for really high quality soundcards sitting within your PC.
At the same time, if you go really cheap, with a decent chipset but no crystal stabilisation, you'll be feeding all of your internal cards from your PC's bus clock. In theory -- and just in theory -- that should make them deterministic enough to be synched sample accurately. Even using delay settings in common software, or whatnot.
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