[time-nuts] Sound cards

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Fri Jan 9 21:06:26 UTC 2009


Rex wrote:
> In the uber-thread "Sub Pico Second Phase logger", this exchange took 
> place on 12/16:
>
> Bruce Griffiths wrote:
>  >
>  > Joseph M Gwinn wrote:
>  >>
>  >> time-nuts-bounces at febo.com wrote on 12/15/2008 06:42:59 PM:
>  >>>
>  >>> I've also looked at the specs for several other high end sound cards.
>  >>> Quite a few only have single ended inputs.
>  >>> Maybe, I should document the various cards and highlight their
>  >>> shortcomings etc for this application.
>  >>>    
>  >> That would be very useful.
>  >>  
>  > I'll start on this shortly.
>
> Maybe I lost track and missed something, but I don't think I ever saw 
> more on the subject of specific high-end sound cards that might be 
> useful for nutty measurements.
>
> I'd be interested to hear what any of the group has to share about 
> relative merits of current sound cards that can be interfaced for 
> measurements like what was being discussed in that earlier thread. (And 
> some before and since.)
>
>  From my own point of view, I'd most like to hear about any that are 
> external -- connected by USB or 1394, rather than an internal card. This 
> makes it more portable and easier to move between different PC's.
>
> Bruce or anyone, got more to share?
>
>
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I did start compiling info on sound cards and boxes that are suitable.
However I have yet to find a suitable simple way of presenting it.
A spreadsheet doesnt work that well.
I'll look at this again.

Bruce




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