My suggestion might be blasphemous to the true audio professionals, but I have been very pleased overall so far with my Soundblaster Audigy 2 NX device. It has the potential to do 96KHz, 24-bit playback and capture. I have recorded at 48KHz 16-bit from its line in jack, and the quality was excellent. And while I was playing back 48KHz 16-bit at the same time. And only at USB 1.1 full-speed isochronous.
Concerning USB 2.0, I have upgraded the NX's firmware to the 12/23/03 level that should support USB 2.0, but it's still a 1.1 device under kernel 2.4.22. Does anyone have this device working as USB 2.0 on Linux? One possible explanation is that kernel 2.4.22's USB drivers don't have "other speed" (USB_DT_OTHER_SPEED_CONFIG) support, and Creative might have implemented support for USB 2.0 this way. A later 2.4 or 2.6 kernel might "just work" at USB 2.0, or does the snd-usb-audio driver have to get involved in this negotiation? Thanks! John moron said: > Howdy. I have been futzing around with my M-Audiophile USB for way too > long > now trying to get it to work reliably under Linux and as luck would have > it, > my old Windows install blew up today so now I am totally fubar for > recording > my tracks until I get this fixed. > > Since the Audiophile USB does not work for recording and is proving flakey > for > playback regardless (works sometimes, not others and I do not know why) I > am > curious if anyone has any recommendations for USB audio interfaces that > will > work with the 2.6 kernel as well as ALSA? My requirements are simple: > stereo > in / out with decent sound quality (CD is good enough but must have low > noise > floor). MIDI would be nice but for now just being able to record my live > griefer sessions would be enough to tide me over. > > I do not want to go for a PCI solution as I expect PCI to go away soon and > USB > is portable to any machine I have now or will have in the future. > > I am thinking one of the simple Edirol UA* interfaces would do but I would > like to hear feedback from folks using stuff for recording specifically > before wasting more money on a non-compliant, poorly supported interface. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > It so sucks that the Audiophile USB is problematic as the sound quality is > awesome. Too bad the company is so unsupportive of Linux. > > Cheers > > -- > ---> (culture) http://industrial.org : (label) http://deterrent.net > ---> (community) http://ampfea.org : (hire me) http://codegrunt.com > ---> (send EEEI news to) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---> Whomever dies with the most URLs wins!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
