On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 14:18 +0100, Machel Sylvain wrote: > > Hello Ralf, > > Have you already envisaged to use Digigram boards like the vx222 one > with alsa driver. > > Regards, > > Sylvain
No thank you, I'll take a look at this. On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 08:32 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > 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. That might be true, at least one of them was a long time 64 Studio user, as I was and 64 Studio never used PA. > > 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 Ok. But you agree that it might be, that the analog IOs of a RME and perhaps of a more expensive M-Audio card are better than those of <= 100,- EUR sound card? I heard at least a Motu firewire on a Mac that was much better than my Terratec cards. There are a lot of statements pro and contra several sound cards regarding to the sound quality, but I didn't read any statement about a bad sound for RME cards. I never heard a RME card, but I tend to believe that they are without sound quality issues, while other cards might or might not cause such issues. Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
