On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Ralf <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you read several audio user lists you'll see that's not only me, > having this issue ;), but every Envy24 card user, while RME card users > write similar to this: They didn't use PulseAudio with their RME cards. > Regarding to sound quality issues RME cards also get better gradings > than TerraTec, M-Audio and other cards that cost between 80,- and 400,- > EUR. If you have an all-digital card word-clocked synced to your converters (or an external clock source) there will be ZERO difference in the audio quality delivered by switching to another similar card. To claim anything else is more or less equivalent to the people who claim that using certain hard drives improves the playback quality of their computer-stored music. obviously, there are some "ifs" in that statement that leave some room for variation. the headphone out of my RME digiface, for example, is definitely better quality than the Intel HDA on my motherboard, but that's because its an analog signal path. the RME's also have a better internal sample clock than the M-Audio's, so if you use that clock, there is some potential for small improvements in quality. but the basic statement remains true, and is very important. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
