Re: [Alsa-user] ALSA + USB sound cards (external)

[Bill U. <un...@ph...>]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to decide between iMic, SoundBlaster MP3+,
> and SoundBlaster Extigy. They all USB sound cards
> in the range of $40-$80.

The MP3+ (I do not know about the others) supports ONLY 48000HZ sampling
frequency. This is a pain if you are either recording or playing CDs,
which use 44100. While rate change resampling is possible, it introduces
a lot of noise (well with respect to the ideal anyway-- probably 20 or
30 dB at high frequencies.  
I refused to buy the MP3 for exactly this reason.

I use the maudio transit, however its support under Linux is kludgy.
It is a nice soundcard, but there is a bug in the Linux USB support
which means that one has to go to some lengths to get the card to work.
(se www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/transit.html for the gory details.)


> 
> Are all of them supported by the lastest ALSA?
> Any problems (pros/cons)?
>