Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-05 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Good to hear that you also think it's a good pick. It would have been perfect if M Audio itself made it possible to update firmwe regardless of the os one uses, but I guess there not the only manufacturer out there that is not that visionary. Anyway, I'll order one and will start using it when

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Thanks for all replies so far! I'm reading information re all suggestions. Many seem very nice. I will use it with a laptop and I guess there's no need therefore to get a card with fancy features such as xlr or direct monitoring of the inputs. I basically want to be able to use a combination

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Because of the lack of a mic preamp in the card, putting in a microphone preamp is probably a good idea, as otherwise the mic input tends to be pretty quiet. I assume that that is not necessary if I'd use a pc headset, but only if I would want to use a more advanced mic right. For now I'll use

Re: [Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-03 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Thanks everyone who shared his thoughts. I think I'll get myself the M Audio transit. It seems to be an expensive deck of cards, but it sounds like the quality is good and I guess it's not easy to achieve that on that scale. For now I'll stick with my pc-headset (sennheiser), which can operate

[Alsa-user] USB soundcard advice

2009-11-02 Thread Y.A. Bolawy
Hi all, I'd like some advice on a USB soundcard. The reason for getting one is that I'd like to have good quality sound on all the computers I use or will use. The quality should be good enough to allow speech recognition. Of course, that is possible to some extend with any soundcard, but if the