[Cialug] Linux audio card and driver

[James Shoemaker]

David Champion wrote:
> You still have to worry about "noisy" signal processor chips - which is 
> different than analog signal noise. You'd hope that anything new enough 
> to have spdif would have decent hardware, but I bet that's not always 
> the case.

	Really, I would think that it would either work, or not.  I don't know 
enough about the spdif protocol to to know.  Would the noise be the card 
incorrectly interpreting (record) or generating (play) the digital data, 
or some other part of the process?

James