Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] A nice PCI audio card for the PC?
From: Them (idragosani_AT_chapelperilous.net)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 02:55:53 EEST
Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
> Egads, I know I'm being a bit lazy and irresponsible tossing such a basic
> question into this list, but I'm hoping to cut through most of the forest
> of data to hone in to the right area.
>
> I think I'm "done" with messing about with various motherboard audio
> hardware - it's pretty noisy and has quite a few limitations I'm starting
> to find annoying.
>
> I have a (genuine) Aureal A3D Vortex2 PCI card in my stockpile of hardware,
> but the support on both Wintendo and Linux seems iffy at best.
I recommend the M-Audio cards, like the Audiophile 2496 card. It rocks,
and is a cut way above consumer/gamer cards. It's about $200.00
retail, but check on E-Bay, you can probably find it for a bit less. It
has good support under ALSA (and is controllable with the envy24control
utility that is part of the alsa-tools package).
Check out
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.main&ID=adf95efc30b88aba043fa8b83343bfb8
M-Audio makes lots of other cards that are decent, including USB based
audio devices. They also make some decently priced near-field studio
monitors.
-- Brett
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