[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ralf Mardorf]

Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>> Yep, I use RME Multiface II on Linux host and M-Audio 2496 on Slave. I
>>> imagine if I had an ADAT Lightpipe connection between the two it would
>>> be even better :-)
>>>       
>> Even an envy24 card IMO is not a very-low-cost card.
>>     
>
> M-Audio 2496 is $99 retail, I consider that low-cost. :-) Most cheaper
> cards don't support SPDIF anyway (like the crummy one built into my
> warrior box).

There are cheaper cards for SPDIF, e.g. 
http://www.reichelt.de/?;ACTION=3;LA=444;GROUP=E91;GROUPID=743;ARTICLE=66319;START=0;SORT=artnr;OFFSET=16;SID=29o2wbjKwQAR0AAB8u1RU1a02266723f7e93658eecfff3ac4cafc
= 34.66 US$ and maybe there are HDMI cards less expensive. I don't know 
if non-duplex real-time SPDIF usage could cause trouble when using such 
consumer cards.