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In the Thread: How to record FM broadcasts.
Post Subject: Screw the CD disks!!!Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/8/2005

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 jtavan wrote:
I don't know of that many motherboards with on-board SPDIF _input_, most just have output (and not terribly good output at that). The AES16 and the L22 are within $50 of each other, with the AES16 usually being cheaper.

The logic behind buying the professional card is that you get AES/EBU balanced digital rather than SPDIF, and you get the ability to use an external wordclock. They do seem pretty expensive for what they are, though. You don't need 16 channels, but I don't know of a good and cheaper digital-only card.

All DACs without wordclock input use some sort of clock-recovery circuitry, as AES/EBU and SPDIF are self-clocked protocols and the DAC chip wants to receive a clocked I2S signal. It's easier to do this well if you have clock sync between the sending and receiving devices.
Ok, I’m getting very close to understand all of it. In the end there are very few AES/EBU cards and among then pretty much all options that I have is to Go for AES16 or L22, or for extra six inputs the I would not need vs. onboard DAC-ADC the I would not need also. Theoretically I would go for AES16 as the extra DCP engine and DAC-DCA might add some “girt” but still I would like to head how the “hi-end” on-board ADC might sound… probably I would need to flip a coin…. :-) Also, I did gig today a motherboard with SPDIF output and played with it for a while. You are correct it looked like “dreck” as when I when to the configuration of this card I realized that it was imposable to bypass its multimedia engine.

The things are clearing up now, thanks everyone for your help. If after I build this FM grabbing machine I get Sound that I will be pleased then I promise to send some “interesting” recording of my FM broadcasts. Or perhaps I will put then on my file server and let you guys to grab the uncompressed files….

Rgs,
The caT

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