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</div></div>This sort of technical topic is one that seldom seems to get covered<br>
correctly in things like Wikipedia. To give Mark Greenwood credit, he<br>
did use "standard" whereas you did not. None the less you both have<br>
good points:<br>
<br>
1) Digital audio can be managed at any frequency. Think about 8KHz mp3<br>
files. That's 'digital audio', but it's not 'sound'. CD's are 44.1K.<br>
DVD's are 48K (I believe) mp3's are all over the map.<br>
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2) Digital *interfaces*, such as coaxial spdif, optical spdif, optical<br>
ADAT, HDMI, etc., can generally run at different frequencies. I use<br>
coaxial spdif and optical ADAT every day at 44.1K through Jack. I use<br>
optical spdif on my home theater receiver at 48K. Both work great, and<br>
it's all completely contemplated in the original hardware interface<br>
specs, but I have hardware to support it. (This hardware also supports<br>
88.2KHz, 96KHz, and external clocking if I want to run at some other<br>
custom frequency.) However those same spdif hardware interface specs<br>
to *not* require that devices support all frequencies. That's left to<br>
the implementation so I don't think the device you speak of is<br>
necessarily 'out of spec'.<br>
<br>
3) Many recent PCs have seemingly opted for fixing hardware sample<br>
rates to 48K in favor of DVD playback. There are lots of sound cards<br>
that cannot change frequency and therefore *require* software<br>
resampling of at least one format into the other. Most folks don't<br>
know how to check for that before they purchase, nor would it likely<br>
change their purchase if they did.<br>
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4) I personally don't know of any PC sound cards that resample in<br>
hardware as to do that really requires that card has both clock rates<br>
available which adds cost and is of little value to 99.9% of their<br>
owners.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the info Mark, this is all very helpful.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
I've been interested in this thread as I've never bothered to try Myth<br>
through Jack, and then beyond that through Jack running with real-time<br>
priorities. Hope this response adds another (hopefully useful)<br>
perspective to the conversation.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Mark<br>
</font><div></div></blockquote><div><br>During these experiments, I've been running myth through jack with jack running at real-time priority. All seems to be working well, I even introduced jamin (EQ) into the equation, everything worked well, pretty impressive stuff.<br>
<br>Dave<br></div></div><br>