Re: looking for a cheap soundcard that works under RH9
From: Jules Dubois (yet-another_at_no-domain.cn)
Date: 01/03/04
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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:05:32 -0700
On 1 Jan 2004 19:05:58 -0500, in article
<news:bt2cl6$6k3$1@panix2.panix.com>, Dan Hitt wrote:
> To clarify a point here (about which i think i might get a different
> idea from Jules?),
Different, perhaps, but not necessarily correct.
> a USB sound box [...]
Oh. I wondered why you were asking about USB hubs... but you weren't.
> is a separate unit in a separate
> enclosure with a separate power supply and separate everything else
> except that it connects to your computer over a USB cable, and you
> play sound by sending USB packets from your computer, out over the
> cable, to this separate box a few feet away?
That's my understanding of USB sound.
> If this is the case, it would seem that it would be bound to generate
> much, much better sound because it would be shielded from all of the noisy
> digital signals in your computer.
I think the idea of transmitting digital signals out of the RFI soup inside
the computer case is appealing, at least in principle. I also think that
given the uses most people have for the computer's sound, it's irrelevant.
To produce (this kind of) audio, there must be a D/A stage somewhere, and
its quality may (or may not) have the greatest effect on sound quality.
My problem with bargain-basement analog sound was exactly the effect you
describe, where the sound card acted as an antenna. There's no guarantee
that a USB box (with its digital input) will produce better sound than a
properly-designed, conventional sound card (with its analog output).
> But you would have to have software on your computer to
> play the box.
Yes, although the same could be said for conventional sound cards. A few
years ago, when I first heard of USB audio, it had the significant
disadvantage (under Windows) of using in excess of 50% of the CPU.
-- "[O]bviously Linux owes its heritage to Unix, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim." -- Darl McBride. CEO, The SCO Group. August 2002.
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