I have the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96. I purchased the card a few years ago on the basis of recommendations on this mailing list.
I have never been happy with this card. While it works okay for playing basic sound, getting it to do anything more sophisticated is pure black magic. For example, I have never gotten full duplex to work. The card does things in a non-standard way. For example, you need to use Envy24Control as the mixer. Other mixers don't work, or don't work properly. Volume controls in some apps seem to work, others don't. If you search the archives of the list you will find that the only people who seem to have this card working well are alsa developers or those who understand every last line of source code in the alsa project and know all about the sound daemons of linux, such as jackd, artsd, and oss. You will find many people like myself that have asked for help and example configuration files and get no responses. Don't figure on installing this card, running alsaconf, and having a sound system that fully exploits the capabilities of this card, it won't happen. While sound in linux has come a long way in the decade since I have been using linux, it is no where near plug and play. Be prepared to learn all about the intricacies of alsa, and the sound applications. Note that many of these sound applications don't seem to get along well together. Perhaps at some point in the future, you will be able to install an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 card, and some super sound configuration application will detect and configure it so that you can record a track in Audacity, have KDE play a warning beep, and watch the whole thing in Baudline, all at once. For now that is my dream that seems to be out of reach. Also while the Audiophile 24/96 does sample at 96 KHz, the audio bandwidth of the card is limited to 22 Hz to 22 KHz +/- 0.4 dB. Darrell On Thursday 22 November 2007 02:39, Rene Herman wrote: > I know the M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 and Audiophile 192 can sync the master > clock with their S/PDIF in and both are great cards, also analogue, and not > expensive. The 24/96 you'll even be able to locate 2nd hand by now for +/- > EUR 50 or so. Check eBay -- I see them starting at EUR 0,99 ;-) > > As far as I'm aware, both card function well on Linux. I have neither card > myself, so ask around a bit for any possible specific trouble though. > > Rene. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
