From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard King" Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:56:39 +0000 Subject: Re: PCMCIA or USB "soundcards"? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org I believe Roland make a USB soundcard, and Digigram of France make a PCMCIA card of very high quality. Richard King http://www.channelafrica.org -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Tell Newsgroups: linux.sound To: linux-sound@vger.rutgers.edu Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 2:26 AM Subject: PCMCIA or USB "soundcards"? >Are there any PCMCIA or USB digital audio record/playback devices (i.e. >soundcards) that have linux drivers available? > >I would like to do some digital recording in the field using my Thinkpad >600E, but the 1/8" mic/line audio-in jack is sufficiently loose that >reliable connections are impossible, and I've got some reservations about >the onboard A/D and D/A quality. The results of the recording session might >end up on a CD, so sound quality does matter. > >It seems to me that a USB-attached box with studio-grade A/D converters >would be a nice niche product - does one exist yet? If I had time, I'd build >one... > >Steve >-- >-- >Steve Tell | tell@cs.unc.edu | http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tell | KF4ZPF >On Leave from UNC working at Chip2Chip, Inc. tell@chip2chip.com/919-929-0991 >