Fw: [softrock40] Re: USB Soundcard (minimal size)

[Terry Fox]

Agreed Mike.  However, the firewire sound cards are all $300 to $400 or
more, and that doesn't fit well with a $13 SoftRock Lite or $32 SoftRoxk
RxTx.  We need to find/build something that has better specs than the
PCM2900, with fast USB or Firewire interface, but costs less than $75
(arbritary $ number) or so.  That would be a big win for laptop users.
Terry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo at ccr.org>
To: "Terry Fox" <wb4jfi at knology.net>
Cc: "Frank Gentges" <fgentges at mindspring.com>; <tacos at amrad.org>; "Terry
Fox" <tfox at knology.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [softrock40] Re: USB Soundcard (minimal size)


>
> the really good low-noise audio pods usually speak Firewire.
> they have 24-bit ADCs that run at 96K or sometimes 192K samples/sec
> for (semi?)pro-audio. you can quibble about whether the
> noise-floor-limited resolution is 21, 22 or 23 bits, but the net
> is that it's a lot more than 16. a version that didn't
> need a lot of gain in front of the ADC would likely be
> even cleaner. a 2-channel pod is not very expensive and
> if you run line-level-in, you'll bypass most of the analog
> parts.
>
> -mo
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