$13 six-channel audio interface

[Miles-D]

just ordered on of these for 13€ from the UK.
Will try it out myself and see how well it works with asio4all.
could be a cheap backup soundcard. or something for small house partys...

[deevey]

Looking at that print layout I can SEE it sounds bad....

The Encore one I'd posted does not actually sound bad - its certainly on Par with most $100 "DJ" sound cards e.g. Numark i/o, Mix vibes, Torq Connectiv and almost any sub $400 All-in-one DJ units I've played with and the output volume is miles ahead on all channels and there is very little noise compared with others.

However the noise on the inputs is terrible - so its useless for any recording. $20 couldn't really expect more and its handy as a backup.

[Eliot Han]

However the noise on the inputs is terrible - so its useless for any recording. $20 couldn't really expect more and its handy as a backup.

maybe bad grounding on the device? anyone open these up and beef them a little?

[deevey]

maybe bad grounding on the device? anyone open these up and beef them a little?

Possibly - I'll see what happens when I separate the inputs from the board, doesn't sound like grounding though.

I'm sure you could Upgrade the Caps and perhaps a few other bits n' bobs inside if you really wanted to - pretty sure It would not be worthwhile.

[boarderbas]

It's a one-chip design. There is no buffering for the inputs. Chips are by default badly grounded due to their construction. That's why more expensive soundcards buffer in's and outs.

[Miles-D]

today i received my audio interface. it's smaller than i thought. around the size of an ni audio 2.
windows 7 is recognizing the interface and installing drivers automatically. but i dont get any sound out of the outputs. in windows the audio levels show me that something is played back. but there is no sound from the outputs. tried all 3 outputs...

btw the delievered driver from the cd is not windows 7 compatible. gonna try the newest c-media cm106 driver when i found it and report back.

[Miles-D]

ok, found out that the chipset of the interface is a c-media cm6206.
found a working driver for windows 7 after 1 hour of searching.

did a small traktor session with it.
was using asio4all. the latency was 4,4 ms with a buffersize of 128.
sound quality is clear. better than my internal notebook soundcard.
good enough for small venues and private parties if you ask me.

can't report anything about longterm stability yet.
but so far it runs stable without crashing, cracking or other disturbing noises.