Thread: Looking for best USB sound w/ line in and SPDIF out

Phew, thats a tricky one... I had a almost forgot about this guy:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Transit.html





Will that work?

That could work, but how is the S/Q of the digital out on this one?

Quantitative SQ is excellent according to this:

http://www.learjeff.net/RMAA/results.html

There is a ton of info about the Transit on this board... you may want to check up on the hiber-ability of the device.

This are the most usb audio control used in carpc but are expensive

http://www.terratec.net/en/products/..._USB_2084.html

or

http://www.gigasonic.com/motu,USB_Au...terfaces.shtml

They are used to make all controll like internal routing, delay, elettronics crossover, with a Console program or others vsthost....

Thanx for all the tips.
I don't need DSP/x-over functions (have external DPS for that w/ coax and optical in).
I need good quality digital out and line in that can be routed to digital out.
The DMX 6Fire USB look great, I can use the XLR w/ 48v phantom to my RTA microphone and skip the behringer mixer board that I normally use for RTA.
How about the TerraTec Aureon 5.1 USB MK II? All I need really but kind of sheep.

I see now that the DMX min spec are 2ghz amd/intel, I have an atom 330 dual core system (1,66ghz), is that to weak?

I beleive those specs are for worst case, IE if you use all of those inputs/outputs. The atom should run it just fine.

Keep in mind that some of these require a seperate power supply and some are USB bus powered.

Youre dealing with digital to digital on reputable audio companies, the SQ should be perfect.

I went from a PCI X-Fi ExtremeMusic (SPDIF) to onboard Realtek ALC662 (SPDIF) and the SQ is far worse, my only PCI slot is now occupied by a GFX so can't use PCI for sound
So I don't think SQ on SPDIF is same for all vendors. I would prefer bit perfect SPDIF but not sure if that is achievable on all vendors cards.

External power can be a problem in a car but its doable.