André Pouliot wrote:
It's all depend of your target for a sound card. As most other post in the mailing list seem to point it's more a card for professional so the higher the better but going more than 24bit 192Khz is not useful.
Indeed.
If you want to make a card for the linux market most people don't need more than the classic 44,1Khz 16 bit(with a good protection from noise) so most old card do the job.
Even in this "most people market" though, source material is increasinly becoming available in higher precision formats from BD, (HD-)DVD, DVD-A (and SACD, although not directly as PCM) and so on. Having to convert it to 44.1/16-bit in software before giving it to your soundcard sucks, no matter what.
Personally, I am a Linux desktop user and music fan. I have a good card hooked up to a good headphone amp, driving a good pair of headphones that I listen to probably more then 2 hours per day on average. 44.1/16 indeed (CD source mostly) but given availability of higher precision source material, I'd certainly want my next card to do 192/24.
Anyways, this does not seem to be a market under consideration anyway. Rene. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
