On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:29:15AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > I consider buying the Lexicon Alpha souncard: > http://www.lexiconpro.com/product.php?id=7 > > Is someone using it sucessfully? I understand there > are "USB soundcards" out there not even appearing as > USB Audio class devices. > > If this card is not working properly with 4.6 or current, > can people recommend a good uaudio card?
It depends on what you want to use it for. I use a m-audio mobilepre for recording and listening music; it's class compliant does 16-bit stereo at 48kHz, and the sound is excellent. It has a stereo preamp and a phantom power, which is handy. > I need it to be uaudio become the machine that will use it > does not have any possibility of holding a PCI card. > > More generally, what is the status of uaudio(4)? It works reliably, 24-bit encodings are not supported though; recently Jacob fixed various bugs, including a very annoying limitation of the block size. -- Alexandre
