Neil, sure is funny how many times that dead horse gets resurrected. ;>)
Just for fun, everyone should go look at http://www.presonus.com/ to see how many ports (channels) they have on their single USB recording system product vs. their many IEEE1394 (FireWire) recording system products. Since they sell both USB and FireWire systems, there is intelligence in the answer to the question. Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: ger...@flex-radio.com Web: www.flex-radio.com Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Neal Campbell <nealk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think people believe that USB is a better alternative because they > believe > that its the firewire interface that is giving the sporadic "radio cannot > connect" or distorted audio issues. > > While there are definitely more USB ports on "best buy" computers than > firewire, I doubt that even if the 3000 and 5000 could run on USB 2.0 it > would present the same set of latency requirement as firewire (although it > would make debugging them easier since I have a USB sniffer but a 1394 > monitor is out of my budget!). > > I also think that chipsets like the ICH9 and ICH10 have grown so complex > and > have crept into so many different device controls that it is its own > minefield. Almost every issue I have seen with the 1500 has been on a board > with those two chips. Granted a high percentage of motherboards have those > chips but I haven't seen any issues with other southbridge chip makers on > USB. > > One difference between the radios Lyle mentioned and the Flex is they are > all receivers not transceivers so are not carrying all of the channels that > the 3000 and 5000 do. > > But, as Ray said, we have beaten this dead horse so many times on this list > that I fell asleep while typing this note. > > Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz > > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER > > Amateur Radio: K3NC > Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ > DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com > Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Ray - K9DUR <k9...@rnacs.com> wrote: > > > Brian, > > > > Right on! At the time that the FLEX-5000 was being developed, the design > > decision was clear: At that stage in the technology, IEE1394 was the > > better > > choice. > > > > 73, Ray, K9DUR > > http://k9dur.info > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > > http://www.flexradio.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/