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In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player

Post Subject: More about the AFI1Posted by manisandher on: 7/9/2009

Romy,

I've been using the AFI1 for the last few months. I haven't done any detailed comparisons with my other two 'interfaces' (actually, they're multichannel ADC/DACs with AES ouputs), but I think the AFI1 is excellent.

The only issue that I have with it is that I can't use the PMII in Master mode at rates of 176.4 and 192KHz... the AFI1 cannot double the clock frequency from the PMII. But this will not be a problem for you, of course, as you don't use these sample rates.

I would be very interested in knowing whether the AFI1 shows any improved performance over the Lynx PCI card. The only advantage I can see really is in the dedicated power supply... possibly. But then maybe such an advantage (if indeed it exists) may be outweighed by having to use the firewire interface. But Daniel has done a good job here - he uses 'isosynchronous mode'.

Mani.

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