Re: External Analog to Digital Converters

julian8888888@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I haven't read anything bad about the Lynx Two, that's good. What did
you mean by jitter Daniel? Do you think by passing through a low
quality soundcard jitter would be introduced to the signal, even if
the card isn't doing the analog to digital conversion?

Would it sound something like CD quality audio turned into low bit
rate mp3's or something along those lines? I suppose the only way to
avoid such jitter is to use an external converter with a good sound
card, use the sound card alone, or use one of the newer converters
that don't require an additional soundcard by using USB or Firewire?


My dear, I do not know why a digital cable connection cannot copy 100%.

I know when I copy a wav from one point of the Harddisk to an other,
it does not loose Sound quality. Even when parting it into many Floppy
Disks and expanding them back on an other PC does not distort the wav.


Not copying Music realtime is the Solution. I don't know why Digital is
so slow with that case.


But you need analog into computer, so far I understood your lines.
Well, then lookout for a Card with a decent A/D Chip. Or try them out!!?
My local High End dealer gives me Cables, Amps and even Loudspeakers
with me, to try them out for further investigation.

It's possible that a weaker A/D chipped card, sounds better than the
decent one (better circuitry, discrete analog in and outs, etc.).
Listening them would open your mind.
Or ask the dealer if he would like to copy a certain analog record from
you to wav-file, with the Soundcard. Afterwards you can listen them
Easy, step by step with your CD-Player. (e.g. Turntable System-Tests are
recorded to CD and you can easy listen the various timbres for the
tested pickups) ;-)

The CD is better. You can hear the differencies of the best pickups....
:-))) o.k., just a joke!!



Best regards,

Daniel Mandic

P.S.: How about an old decent ISA-BUS Soundcard and some dedicated,
real-time OS operating (plain DOS, MS-DOS for example, nothing
serious...) Software. (forget NT and other COM-OS'es for Music. Such
are made for doing many tasks in the same time [com, communication],
not really something for Music Enthusiasts, except you prefer
Software-Synheizer. MIDI is running very well under DOS. I don't know
how the situation would look with SPDIF, but it is worth a try. As
mentioned many times here, some cards do have everything onboard and
you don't need a PCI-BUS). Look for good stuff ;) (Voyetra? Turtle
Beach? Terratec?)

.

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