7 Fabulous Gifts For Your Favorite Linux/FOSS Geek

“Beautiful Computer Speakers

“The Audioengine A5N BAMBOO 2-Way Bookshelf Speakers look and
sound wonderful. They’re a bit luxurious at $449.00, so if you can
live without bamboo you can get them in plain enclosures for $199.
These are powered speakers, putting out a healthy 50 watts per
speaker, and a frequency response of 50Hz – 22KHz. They put out a
beautifully rich, balanced sound and are magnetically shielded so
they can go next to televisions and CRT computer monitors. (LCD and
plasma screens are immune to magnetic interference.)

“Good Linux Sound Card

“There’s no point in attaching good speakers to a cruddy sound
card. The M-Audio Audiophile 2496 is a very nice PCI sound card
with real RCA connectors, plus MIDI and S/PDIF. It supports up to
24-bit/96kHz digital audio quality, which is very high for both
recording and playback. For $100 I call it a best buy, certainly a
better value than those overpriced under-qualitied “gaming” sound
cards. M-Audio isn’t particularly Linux-friendly, but they’re not
Linux-hostile, more like Linux-meh, and a lot of their products
work well on Linux in spite of themselves.”

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