On 8/21/2012 7:26 AM, KQ8M wrote: > Unfortunately the 0204 does not work very well with Win 7.
EMU is on by $&%*@ list because of their conscious decision to NOT support discontinued products. When I went looking for a driver for my 0202, I found that EMU had removed it from their website ON PURPOSE. I managed to find a couple of drivers on third party websites, one of which wrecked a XP Pro system so badly (it wouldn't boot!) that I had to do a complete restore. I found a driver that worked on N8LP's website. I will repeat recommendations I have posted here several times for good low cost USB audio interfaces. These are plain vanilla 48 kHz units, intended for semi-pro home studio audio playback and recording, and for DJs. One is the lowest cost Numark unit, sold by B&H Photo for about $30. Another is the lowest cost Tascam, sold by B&H for about $70. Both are free of Pin One Problems, work with generic Windoze drivers, have stereo RIAA Phono Inputs, and Line Level inputs and outputs, and the outputs are adjustable. The Tascam also has a mono mic input, a mono guitar input, and an input gain control. It is the one I like best. Both work equally well decoding and encoding digital signals. Someone recommended a cute little Byterunner unit that is much smaller, and sells for about $35. I bought one and tried it. While it works as well as the others for encoding and decoding, it's quite cheaply made and I found the connections to be flaky at times. It does NOT work with generic Windoze drivers, and comes with its own on a CDROM. If I were looking for a USB adapter for spectrum display, I'd poke around websites for distributors of equipment for home recording studios and study their specs. Some of the better distributors are Full Compass, Sweetwater, B&H Photo. Be sure to figure out which version(s) of USB they support, and which version of USB your computer has. The newer, slicker stuff will be at least USB 2.0, and sound cards that don't tell you are probably USB 1.1, which works with USB 2.0 systems. But USB 2.0 sound cards may not work, or work as well, with USB 1.1 computers. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
