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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Len Ovens  wrote:
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> I have been reading what I can on audio interfaces... I am thinking there

> are very few good ones. I am thinking that some parts of the system are

> vastly over priced like ADAT and MADI interfaces, both of which seem to

> cost about 10X (at least) what they should cost... like how come a Gb NIC

> is well under 0 and MADI PCI(e) card (100Mb) is 0?

Gb NIC sales: in the millions

MADI PCI(e) card sales: low thousands if you are lucky, hundreds if not
> For audio quality, it seems FW, USB and ethernet _could_ give better

results if designed right.
none of them live "on the bus" the way a PCI card can. all of them are

subject to a separate clock, in addition to the audio sample clock and the

PCI bus clock (which is so high a frequency as to be mostly irrelevant).
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Len Ovens <len@ovenwerks.net&=

gt; wrote:
I have been reading what I can on audio interfaces... I am thinking there

are very few good ones. I am thinking that some parts of the system are

vastly over priced like ADAT and MADI interfaces, both of which seem to

cost about 10X (at least) what they should cost... like how come a Gb NIC

is well under $100 and MADI PCI(e) card (100Mb) is $800? =

Gb NIC sales: in the millionsMADI PCI(e) card=

 sales: low thousands if you are lucky, hundreds if not> For aud=

io quality, it seems FW, USB and ethernet _could_ give better results if de=

signed right.

none of them live "on the bus" the way a PCI card =

can. all of them are subject to a separate clock, in addition to the audio =

sample clock and the PCI bus clock (which is so high a frequency as to be m=

ostly irrelevant).
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