optical out sound card for linux?

Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Tue Jul 24 17:18:12 UTC 2007


Charles philip Chan wrote:

>tleslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> writes:
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>>So i am going to buy a bithead head phone amp that is suggested as a
>>cheap amp (400$) for a HD650 (good ones go for about 4-5K$ and I ain't
>>going there now),
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>400$? Where did you get this figure from? The Total BitHead is listed
>for $149.00US on Headroom. Also have you considered the PA2V2:
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>http://www.electric-avenues.com/audio8.html
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>It has a lot of good reviews on head-fi.
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>>any recommended cards?
>>Obviously the card needs to work well with Linux.
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>The Audiophile 2496:
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>http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496-main.html
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>is really cheap these days. It works with ALSA.
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It does look good. I'm thinking of going a little higher end with their 
M-Audiophile 192 to get 192 KHz. ALSA Matrix reports that it's 
supported, but "input not tested". That doesn't sound great I guess - 
I'll be using the S/PDIF co-ax input...

>Charles
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