Subject: Re: USB audio?
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Dean Huxley <dean@huxley.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/07/1999 14:49:37
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:42:28PM -0600, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Does anybody know the status of the uaudio driver? I remember it was
> > in the tree for a while, then it disappeared, but the man pages are
> > still around. I'm asking because I've got some speakers that claim to
> > fit the USB class 1 audio thingy. They're available for loan, if
> > somebody's willing to write a driver for them. :)
>
> I'm curious about this too. Many of the better USB speakers are actually
> outboard DACs of very good quality -- excellent quality compared to what's
> on most sound cards -- and avoid a lot of noise problems by not being
> physically in the computer. And they're cheap, too! Often you can use
> them with whatever speakers you wish.
Lennart Augustsson had been working on USB audio, but I think he has
been very busy (and productive) with other things lately.