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Originally Posted by AchternStyg
Dude, I've read your post somewhere else before, it's identical to another forum. Despite the fact that it took a whole page, it doesnt say much.
The point is there are some incompatibilities on the market at the moment between different firewire chipset and firewire audio cards. I had a hard time with my Inspiron 6400 and M-audio Firewire Audiophile and I kept on blaming the Ricoh chipset. It turns out M-audio sucks as a brand with a lot of the new laptops, but brands like Presonus and Echo work perfectly with Ricoh. The proof? See 3 presonus ( 1 firestudio and 2 digimax) chained up and hooked to a Dell 6400. Take the first link of this google search: ( the actual link I couldnt post here as it has the word c ock in it  .
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...le&btnG=Search
So, who is to blame?
My advice for all the people who wanna have a laptop+soundcard going is to read up a bit more and find a combination of laptop and soundcard that's reported to work properly. If you already have a laptop, go to a shop and try some cards. And give a chance to the Inspiron I am happy with it ( again ). |
presonus? LOL
thats one of the units we use to verify if a laptop will work. if the presonus does most anything else will. as they are the most persnickity. 1/2 the presonus units will not work on Ricoh.
Maudio is almost never a problem. (win xp not Vista crap)
what i posted says alot if you can understand it. and its based on testing over 20 laptops in the last 8 months or so.
Every TI chipset unit i tested worked perfectly to 64 buffer.
the others mostly fall on thier face with 512 buffer being the best.
(assuming a real audio test not some podunk 8 tracks, no effects or samples.)
but hey thanks for commmenting.
Scott
ADK
bottom line Ricoh and ENE suck and TI is by far better.