On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 22:16 -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, sc0ri0n wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am looking for advice on a external usb2 sound card. I have 2 HP > > XW6000 boxes and microphone does not work for either of them. One of > > them has WinXP and the other one hosts Mandriva/Fedora Linux > > distributions. > > > > So, I want to buy an external card that I can attach to either box > > mostly to use skype. I checked Creative site: It looks like their Live > > 24 card has both Linux and XP drivers but it is USB 1.1. I would prefer > > to have usb2. > > usb1.1 is fin for audio in/out in general. You need 1.1Mb/s for cd quality > audio uncompressed, and you have 12Mb/s. unless you're doing multitrack recording the difference > is superficial. Thanks Joel, good to know. I guess I might as well buy Live! 24 but just don't like paying for older technology :) Thanks, Adil
