i know usb devices kind of have a bad rap (at least compared to pci), but i'm going to be getting one anyway. here are a few questions.
1 i've heard that using usb for audio can randomly introduce clicks and pops into your audio. i'm buying a firewire drive for storing my audio data, and i'm buying a new firewire/usb2 combo pci card to connect it to. if i plug a usb1.1 audio interface (ie m-audio audiophile usb) into a usb2 port, does the newer, presumably more stable implementation of the usb 1.1 standard minimize this problem? or will i be just as screwed if i would be if i were to use the usb1.1 ports that came installed on my computer?
2 why are there no firewire interfaces geared towards beginners? i'm going to have a free firewire port and would gladly pay a little (note: little) more for a firewire interface in order to get the stability afforded by that protocol... but there don't seem to be many available. i haven't seen any for under about $500 or so.
3 similar to the above, why no usb2 audio interfaces for beginners? edirol has one, but it's $700.
4 i heard that edirol stuff can be kind of picky about the usb chipset you have. when i looked on the website under "approved usb chipsets," however, the description said "the following devices have been approved for usb audio," not "the following will work with our products." so is the problem with edirol or with the chipset manufacturers? (that is, do edirol products require specific chipsets? or are there specific chipsets that are incompatible wiith usb audio, regardless of whether the product is edirol or m-audio or whatever else?)
1 i've heard that using usb for audio can randomly introduce clicks and pops into your audio. i'm buying a firewire drive for storing my audio data, and i'm buying a new firewire/usb2 combo pci card to connect it to. if i plug a usb1.1 audio interface (ie m-audio audiophile usb) into a usb2 port, does the newer, presumably more stable implementation of the usb 1.1 standard minimize this problem? or will i be just as screwed if i would be if i were to use the usb1.1 ports that came installed on my computer?
2 why are there no firewire interfaces geared towards beginners? i'm going to have a free firewire port and would gladly pay a little (note: little) more for a firewire interface in order to get the stability afforded by that protocol... but there don't seem to be many available. i haven't seen any for under about $500 or so.
3 similar to the above, why no usb2 audio interfaces for beginners? edirol has one, but it's $700.
4 i heard that edirol stuff can be kind of picky about the usb chipset you have. when i looked on the website under "approved usb chipsets," however, the description said "the following devices have been approved for usb audio," not "the following will work with our products." so is the problem with edirol or with the chipset manufacturers? (that is, do edirol products require specific chipsets? or are there specific chipsets that are incompatible wiith usb audio, regardless of whether the product is edirol or m-audio or whatever else?)