2013/2/1 Simon Wise <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:simonzwise@gmail.com" target="_blank">simonzwise@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

They are needed on the Pi ... there is no analogue input and the built-in analogue out is very poor, hence you need some external USB card to do more<br>
than use the stereo digital audio part of the HDMI output.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, but besides that, I&#39;m just wondering and asking how it improves (or if it does at all) the CPU performance. Or latency issues. I mean, sound cards are more than just getting sound in and out of the computer, right? And for that matter, I&#39;m also interested on how it works in other computers, not only in the RPI</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div> </div></div>