but can we live without one ?
Nice - but not practical for me personally. I have plenty to plug any mike into already.
Ditto…
D
The shorter the Signal/Chain/Path from the emitter of acoustic energy to the Analogue-to-Digital Converter the better the conversion properties will be…
The ultimate chain is some distance away… But this is a good start to the process…
The mythical Mic Chain is is nearing it’s end…
The conversion of the signal path at the other end is still way back in the early days of the Bell Labs in New York… At the turn of the century…
A magnetic motor forcing the movement of air VIA a Moving Coil of wire… glued a paper diaphragm …
The JBL Labs place the best speaker designs at or around 6% - 9% efficient…
Electrical Power input to the Acoustic Energy output…
So says Herb Goldstein of JBL Speaker Labs…
Bill…
the new intel 17 processor and flash cards instead of hard drives is making the portable computer actually portable - maybe N wont run on a SD card but there are other daws that will, you can get a LINUX NOTEBOOK IN THE UK FOR JUST OVER
£150 - The Linux Dell is not much dearer and the XP Dell is quite a bargain - its here that a really good audio input is required - this one is really good -
the writing is on the wall for hard drives (see the Mac AIR)- when this happens most DAWS will be dead in the water as they will be so slow as to be useless - try opening a song on a memory stick and watch N sit there for years before it does anything -
M.R.
Not my experience at all Doc - I have a 2 gig card I transfer stuff with from my tracking machine to my mixing machine. One day last month I had forgotten to drag the folder to my tracking hard drive and did 4 tracks of over dubs on the card before I noticed my save was going to the 2 gig card. I was floored by the performance of the card and my tracking machine. True story.
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intel 17 processor
You mean Intel
® Coreâ„¢ i7 processors
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15818
http://www.intel.com/technol....dex.htm
on two PCs - 1 on XP one on Win2k - single core pentiums - with WHOLE SONG on memory stick - press play wait between 5 and 10 seconds (win2k is the slowest) before track plays - transfer song to hard drive and it starts immediately, NOTE this is on a memoy stick NOT a SD card - SD may be faster but i cannot run those on any PC i have - one thing i wish there was a STANNDARDISED SPECIFICATION as to the speed of a SD type cards and USB memory sticks -
7011 - You mean Intel
® Coreâ„¢ i7 processors - YES - which are 64bit processors which i believe i read could host 28gig or ram - where the heck can you get a motherboard to hold that much ram, and the cost 
?? -
M.R.