Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?

From	"Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux?
Date	2016-05-25 04:20 +0200
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=?UTF-8?Q?Joel_Wir=C4=81mu_Pauling?= <joel@aenertia.net> writes:
> Rather than going with a Consumer card. Head to a Audio/Music store. What
> you are looking for is a USB - Audio interface; they generally have much
> better Signal to Noise ration, hardware mixers and Ballanced XLR outputs
> and Inputs. Something like the focusrite scarlet.
> 
> Alternatively if you are just after a simple DAC/AMP without Inputs - then
> I throughly recommend The Cheap FIio E1 - Which can be had for around 50$
> and have 96hkz/24bit DAC decoding I have several and they can be used as
> just a headphone amp as well as with android.
> 
> Basically is it doesn't have an external power source or a built in 
> battery
> - then avoid it - especially if you plan on attaching it to unbalanced
> speaker/desk amps. The only Consumer manufacturer dac I would consider in
> this class is the Creative E5 - but it's several hundred more than the
> above mentioned Fiio E1 and you only really would need it if you want
> bluetooth and input options.

The FIio E1 sounds like a great starting point. I do have
isolation transformers on each audio source so a device like this
should work with no problem at all. Thank you.

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What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-24 20:30 +0200
  Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-05-24 20:50 +0200
    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-24 21:50 +0200
      Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-24 23:20 +0200
    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-24 22:40 +0200
    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-25 03:10 +0200
      Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 10:20 +0200
      Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-05-25 11:30 +0200
        Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-05-25 12:00 +0200
        Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-25 17:10 +0200
      Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-05-25 15:30 +0200
        Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> - 2016-05-26 05:50 +0200
  Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-05-25 00:10 +0200
  Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> - 2016-05-25 02:00 +0200
  Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net> - 2016-05-25 03:30 +0200
    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net> - 2016-05-25 03:30 +0200
    Re: What Mid-range USB Sound Cards Work with Linux? "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2016-05-25 04:20 +0200

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