[WXBH-Discuss] Re: Improving Our Audio Quality

[John Hicks]

I copied my last post to Andy Gunn of Prometheus and just got this reply:

andy gunn wrote:
> hi john, just a few notes about the below.  i think the hammerfall card might be
> a little bit overkill - i am not sure how expensive they are, but if you get
> something like the m-audio delta-44 at each end you will be fine:
> http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44-main.html
> http://www.zzounds.com/item--THKMIMD442
>
> a note about jack - if you are attempting to send full-bit-rate audio with no
> encoding, that probably won't work over the public internet.  an uncompressed
> PCM 44.1khz 16 bit data stream takes 1.5 Megabits.  you will have to run
> something compressed over the public internet unless you get a dedicated data
> line or wireless link from site to site.
>
> let me know if you have questions about this!
> -a
>
>
> John Hicks wrote:
>   
>> Paul--
>>
>> I finally "get it". I think you are saying that being able to stream and
>> transmit a good quality audio signal is an important  factor in
>> attracting potential programmers. After all, it takes a lot of effort to
>> put together a show. We owe it to the programmers/producers to do their
>> handiwork justice when presenting it to the public.
>>
>> There are several things we can do to improve our quality. I list them
>> below in a certain logical order, not in the order in which I think we
>> should address the problem:
>>
>> Our current setup sends a 128kbps stream 
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