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Posted by sufee_b on May-12-2004 05:31:

Question about firewire???

I plan on getting an Audiophile firewire but apparently you need some special pin connection to connect to your Pc...i dont want to spend some hundred bucks just to connect to my PC...is this true??

Posted by Vert on May-12-2004 05:34:

I'll speak for alanzo here: "Don't buy it, it's shit".

Buy the PCI version. But yeah firewire cards are cheap though.

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Posted by sufee_b on May-12-2004 06:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Vert
I'll speak for alanzo here: "Don't buy it, it's shit".

Buy the PCI version. But yeah firewire cards are cheap though.

es

hunh?? it s shit meaning in price>> Firewire is supposed to be the best, very low latencly, no rf noise, good bandwidth...solves all the problems of OCI and USB cards

Posted by Dmatrox on May-12-2004 06:18:

I dont know about the sound part of firewire, but its damn fast somewhere around 200kb/s. i use a firewire card for my ipod and the card comes with a fire wire so you can plug it to the thing you are using.

Posted by josh on May-12-2004 07:09:

Firewire is very stable and it had the constant speed while transferring but nonetheless, PCI is the best a better quality.

USB2.0 can be faster then FireWire but it do not have the constant speed all the time(as what I heard of)

Get PCI better.

Posted by Thunder5 on May-12-2004 14:47:

In most cases PCI is faster than Firewire or any other external connection.

Posted by Mossy on May-12-2004 15:48:

firewire pci card = about �20

Posted by Vert on May-12-2004 17:20:

No, I was talking about the audiophile firewire it self.. its crap apparantly.

I was not talking about firewire as a platform .

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Posted by sufee_b on May-12-2004 19:34:

i was leaning on getting the audiophile pci but what about rf noise??

Posted by Dj Thy on May-12-2004 20:20:

Wasn't alanzo talking about the USB audiophile? The Firewire and USB version are quite a different beast.

About the RF noise, the PCI Audiophile is known to be very quiet. No problems there...

Posted by Vert on May-12-2004 20:48:

quote:
Originally posted by Dj Thy
Wasn't alanzo talking about the USB audiophile? The Firewire and USB version are quite a different beast.

About the RF noise, the PCI Audiophile is known to be very quiet. No problems there...

Eh I dono, he probably was. Either way I'd the the PCI version. Cheaper, and doesnt get in the way (unless of course you are low on PCI slots, or you don't know how to use one).

I mean if you really want something external and firewire, for 150 more than the FW audiophile you can get the firewire 410, coming with more outputs, inputs etc.

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Posted by Swing on May-13-2004 09:34:

Get an 01X instead

Posted by sufee_b on May-22-2004 05:21:

Ok, so PCI it is..if not much RF noise then thats the way...cheaper to so makes it easier on me....tx for the help everyone