My Dream Device!

• Chris Liscio

I believe I may have found my dream device for loudspeaker measurements and testing. It's the recently-announced (in January) FA-66 by Edirol. It's firewire, has multiple channels, and can support full-duplex recording at 24bit/192kHz! That would provide FuzzMeasure with a resolution of 96kHz – well beyond any human's hearing! </p> <p> Buying one of these will eat up the rest of my proceeds from FuzzMeasure, and then some. Upon getting one, I should be able to add full support for multi-channel interfaces. The RCA jacks (which I'd use for impedance) are on inputs 5 and 6, which is currently not supported by my audio device handling code. </p> <p> Doing some further impedance testing this past weekend, I'm not happy at all with the performance of my M-Audio MobilePre USB. I think I will have to sell that device off, and move on with my life. :) </p> <p> You know, it's really tough to manage this extra money I make from FuzzMeasure and invest it directly back into development. It's so tempting to say, "Hey, I have an extra few hundred bucks – I should buy a PS2!" Instead, I get all excited about audio interfaces that I'm able to stretch FuzzMeasure's feature set with. :) </p>