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Re: [PLUG] Linux music/video server
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Doug Crompton wrote:
> I would envision a Linux cd or USB memory card bootable system with a good
> audio card like a SB audigy that has optical or coax output to the preamp.
> It would have ethernet to connect to the server.
I don't know much about sound cards, audio systems or any of this stuff in
general, and I should say that I have an SB Audigy2 and am very pleased
with it (in as much as I'm no audiophile and probably couldn't tell the
difference anyway)...but the Audigy line cards have a 96KHz clock, from
which they sample at 96 or 48KHz... this means that whenever you're
playing a 44.1KHz audio stream (CD, most MP3/Flac/Ogg/etc, as far as I
know) you're getting noise introduced by resampling within the card. As I
said, I can't tell the difference, but if you're going to set up a fancy
high-end system there may be better cards out there.
dsc
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