[Ti] AAC vs MP3 (slightly OT)

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 10:49  pm, b wrote:

> Sam Hotchkiss paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 9:51AM -0700, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
>>> The solution seems to be a USB  (Firewire if you are in Pro Audio) 
>>> or PCMCIA based sound card.
>>>
>>> There is a nice one from a company for only $99 that was recently 
>>> given excellent reviews at tomshardware.com that should give us 
>>> (close to) hi-fi line out from our Ti's
>>>
>>> I'll track it down and post the links to the products here for those 
>>> interested.
>>
>> awesome, thanks :)
>> --
>
> USB Audio cards are 'Pro", the firewire thing is about hard drives and 
> running hardware that connects to the Mac, also. Every major [i.e. 
> 'pro'] recording, audio signal treatment application out there will 
> use USB. You want a card that has 24/96 capability

what's 24/96?

> to take advantage of the Mac's [including, certainly, the Ti-Books], 
> amazing built-in audio capabilities.

actually flipper I've seen some audio boxes in the 1k to $10K market 
that just use Firewire instead of USB, and combine some other pro 
features like multiple inputs and output, mixing and gain controls etc 
etc.

I shoudl also clarify -- i don't mean a Firewire card, I mean a metal 
box that connects to your mac via Firewire.

But yeah -- the main thing is to isolate the analogue stage from the 
the electronic noise in the machine. A USB cable achieves this as well 
as a Firewire.

The one disadvantage of USB is it will chew processor cycles, as 
opposed to having , say , a replacement PCMCIA sound card.

> http://m-audio.rjmg.com/index.cfm?pid=3243  This takes you to the 
> Maudio Quattro, 24bit/96kHz USB card ($349)

thanks for that one -- well out of my price range but M audio do a 
consumer priced model too -- ill get the details today.

>
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Tarik Bilgin
Opalblue
tarik at opalblue.com