External Sound Card

[Joel Jaeggli]

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.

> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Adil
>
>
>
>

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