Sound devices - was: wanted Ubuntu Studio hardware advice

[Ralf]

Hi :)

I won't capture another ones thread, especially because I'm interested
in an audio device only.

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 09:38 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Ralf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
> wrote:
[snip]

> >         - no issues with Linux
> >         - a good sound quality, at least as good as good consumer
> >         hifi equipment
> >         - very, very, low latency to fight jitter for MIDI
> >         recordings
> >         - if possible 4 IOs or more, but 2 IOs are ok, if the sound
> >         and handling is ok 
> 
[snip]
> thats great you are looking for an interface upgrade.. i have a
> presonus firepod, which is out of the box, and not bad at all (i would
> like better preamps)... the upgrade im looking into is
> http://www.focusrite.com/products/saffire/saffire_pro_40/ lots of bang
> for the buck, and minimally fiddly to setup...

Wow, the price is ok.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/focusrite_saffire_pro_40.htm

"High Quality 24-bit/96kHz Firewire Interface
Features high quality A-D / D-A conversion and JetPLL™ jitter
elimination technology; pristine audio quality and reliable
synchronisation are guaranteed."

But is Linux compatibility guaranteed too?
Is the sound ok?

Btw. since month everything is connected to compare the analog IOs of my
sound cards with the digital IOs connected to one of my DAT recorders.
At least the D/A, A/D audio quality of my consumer DAT Sony DTC-670 is
at good enough hifi quality to fit to my needs. I wonder if this could
be a temporary solution regarding to the sound quality.

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 15:49 +0100, Victor henri wrote:
[snip]
> I'm using a Fast Track Audio Pro from M-Audio and i'm happy with it. I
have less than 5 msec latency

Hm? USB = jitter for MIDI, is it perfect for audio? I could keep my
audio + MIDI PCI cards for MIDI, even if it might be complicated to use
several audio devices at the same time.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/maudio_fast_track_pro.htm





I could go without mic pre-amps, phantom power etc., because I'll
connect the card to an analog mixer.

Cheers!

Ralf



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