Re: usb sound cards + laptop?
- From: Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Jan 2006 21:09:58 GMT
"idiotprogrammer" <idiotprogrammer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Hi, I'm a podcaster who does occasional music recording.
>I have a Windows PC and soon a linux laptop.
>I presume that whatever I buy will have onboard sound.
>However, I still haven't bought a soundcard for Windows PC, and thought
>it would be nice to buy a USB sound card which I could also use on both
>the win desktop and linux laptop. If it could be used on both machines,
>I might go for a higher end card.
>Here's a list of usb sound cards.
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010360057+70001420&Subcategory=57&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&ATTR1=&ATTR2=&ATTR3=&ATTR4=&ATTR5=&ATTR6=&ATTR7=&ATTR8=&ATTR9=&ATTR10=2010360057+70001420&ATTR11=&ATTR12=
>So far the two big contenders are
>Creative External Sound Blaster Live! SB0490 5.1 Channels 24-bit 48kHz
>in 5.1 mode and up
>($50) and
I would not buy a creative. As it says it ONLY records and plays in 48K.
Thus anything you get from CD or want to write to CD has to be speed
changed. But speed interpolation is incredibly noisy. Ie, you buy a
soundcard with a 90dB noie floor, run the interpolator and get a 20Db noise
floor instead with distortion.
>USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX (90$)
>Anybody had any luck with the USB sound cards on linux (I'll be
>downloading Fedora Core 5 (a test version).
Same problem AFAIK.
I quite like the Maudio transit, but it has some problems as well. Its
noise and distortion is very low (in 16 bit mode it is about 6dB above the
digitisation floor. In 24 bit mode, it is not much different. )
In th epast it has had problems with the installation of the firmware in
Linux, but I think this is now solved ( I got it for $100 Cdn a few years
ago). But other of the maudio usb cards also seem to be good. The one
drawback is that maudio does not give Linux any help whatsoever. They
regard even their name as a top secret and refuse to divulge it to Linux
(that is only a slight exageration).
>Robert Nagle
>Houston, Texas
>http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/
>and
>Sound will be going from a mike to mixer to line in on the sound card.
.
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