External Sound Card

[sc0ri0n]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:16 -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, sc0ri0n wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am looking for advice on a external usb2 sound card. I have 2 HP
> > XW6000 boxes and microphone does not work for either of them. One of
> > them has WinXP and the other one hosts Mandriva/Fedora Linux
> > distributions.
> >
> > So, I want to buy an external card that I can attach to either box
> > mostly to use skype. I checked Creative site:  It looks like their Live
> > 24 card has both Linux and XP drivers but it is USB 1.1. I would prefer
> > to have usb2.
> 
> usb1.1 is fin for audio in/out in general. You need 1.1Mb/s for cd quality 
> audio uncompressed, and you have 12Mb/s. unless you're doing multitrack recording the difference 
> is superficial.

Thanks Joel, good to know.  I guess I might as well buy Live! 24 but
just don't like paying for older technology :)

Thanks,
Adil