On Monday, 26 בDecember 2005 21:47, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > Is there any advantage to having a USB audio device?
>
> Advantage:
>
> * You can use a USB Headset audio device with almost any OS - Linux
> with kernel 2.4.x, 2.6.x, BSD, Solaris (9 and above), Windows (98,
AFAIK win98 requires drivers for anything USB. 98 includes only basic
support for usb hubs and anything else (even usb storage) requires
drivers.
> Disadvantage:
>
> * No Bass or Treble adjustment, no hardware mixing (you can use ARTS
> or ESD in KDE or GNOME) for multiple sound playback applications
> (e.g. sound notifications while using MP3 player).
modern distros offer support for alsa software mixing (dmix), so you
don't need to worry about sound server latencies.
Also, another advantage for USB headsets, is that they are usually
cheaper then a soundcard and headset combo, and if you already have a
soundcard (like most computer sold after 1998 have), then you can fix
up your system to use the main soundcard for music and sound
notification stuff, and the headset for VOIP chatting only - which is
really cool.
--
Oded
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