Im Looking to buy a new soundcard, need some advice please :)

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Posted by Azza Robinson on Jun-09-2005 09:28:

Im Looking to buy a new soundcard, need some advice please :)

Hi,

The time has come for me to purchase a soundcard i own a jp8080 and at the mo im running asio drivers and the latency is great but i cant keep working on asio as the cpu bar is near the max im using fruity btw, im looking to either get http://www.dv247.com/invt/2062 or http://www.dv247.com/invt/24167 but i don't know which is best for my needs? thanks for your help

Posted by saryn on Jun-09-2005 13:44:

creative audigy has a card for everything. their cards are awesome for gaming and recording. and they are pretty cheap.

Posted by djyouth on Jun-09-2005 14:13:

Any M-Audio card will do.
Go for the 24/96.

Posted by Zombie0729 on Jun-09-2005 15:35:

i'm very happy w/ my echo mia midi

Posted by St. Michael on Jun-09-2005 22:24:

My opinion based on loads of experience with several units is this bitches: M-Audio units suck ass. Any MOTU card will suffice.

Posted by DigiNut on Jun-10-2005 00:00:

quote:
Originally posted by St. Michael
My opinion based on loads of experience with several units is this bitches: M-Audio units suck ass. Any MOTU card will suffice.

Any chance you could elaborate? I'd like to know specifics of personal experiences, since I'm looking to buy one myself...

I've been with Creative for the longest time now, and just started looking at M-Audio cards and thought the Audiophiles looked pretty good. This wouldn't be for my main DAW, it would be for another PC that I'm going to set up as a "plugin farm", so basically all I need is a decent ASIO driver, low noise and an optical (ADAT or S/PDIF are both fine) output.

MOTU looks to be a little out of my price range; have people had better experiences with the Audigy or the Audiophiles?

Posted by St. Michael on Jun-10-2005 00:07:

I was just being a dick. But seriously, two words for M-Audio boxes "Driver problems". Go for the MOTU traveler its a more budgetted unit with all of the core elements that make MOTU SCs superior.

Posted by Reversed on Jun-10-2005 01:13:

I've also been using an Echo Mia for quite a while with some success. The card is pretty solid if you can live with 4 channel + 1 spdif (2 1/4" in left-right and 2 1/4" out)

Posted by djyouth on Jun-10-2005 15:30:

We've runned 24/96 without any problems for years now..

Posted by Samplecraze on Jun-10-2005 15:53:

For audio recording etc..the 24/96 is a much better card than the Audigy, which is focused on gaming.

You also need to bear in mind that the Audigy 1 is locked in at 48kHz, that's a real problem when it comes to handling audio or burning cds etc..

Posted by Icone on Jun-10-2005 16:16:

quote:
Originally posted by saryn
creative audigy has a card for everything. their cards are awesome for gaming and recording. and they are pretty cheap.

I'd agree with this. I'm very happy with my Audigy as it is

Posted by /I\ on Jun-10-2005 16:49:

Using echo mia midi here with nps .. mia is comparible to audiophile ... payed 170 for it and you can now get it for 70 .. drivers are excellent (aka sturdy) as is this sound quality ... works no problems with games either .... only problems are it has no mike amplifier so if you want to record you will need a desk to boost the signal and i may need more than two sets of inputs some days.

Posted by /I\ on Jun-10-2005 16:53:

oh ... regarding creative .. nowt wrong with creative if you have one but i hope you wont spend 100 or so to buy one as an upgrade.

Why ?

a) latency problems

b) quanitization problems ... most creative cards using EMU chips are internally set to render at fixed sampling rates and use smokescreens and other forms of magic to overcome this. If you dont belive me then do a search at sospubs.co.uk

Posted by DJDIRTY on Jun-10-2005 17:14:

new sound card

quote:
quote:
Originally posted by St. Michael
My opinion based on loads of experience with several units is this bitches: M-Audio units suck ass. Any MOTU card will suffice.

Any chance you could elaborate? I'd like to know specifics of personal experiences, since I'm looking to buy one myself...

I've been with Creative for the longest time now, and just started looking at M-Audio cards and thought the Audiophiles looked pretty good. This wouldn't be for my main DAW, it would be for another PC that I'm going to set up as a "plugin farm", so basically all I need is a decent ASIO driver, low noise and an optical (ADAT or S/PDIF are both fine) output.

MOTU looks to be a little out of my price range; have people had better experiences with the Audigy or the Audiophiles?quote:

I just wanna add, I got an M-audio delta 66 laying in a box, got my self an RME multiface, never going back to M-audio. M-audio It's not bad but RME is on another level when it comes to sound quality/driver stability.. People wil alvays say their m-audio cards is great, cause it works.. And I understand that, but untill you tried something alse, don't bash my comment. It really depends in the end how much money you wanna spend..

Motu is nice as well. but I know there is one card I will not buy, it's the new EMU cards.. If you decide to get one of thease, make sure you can return it, since they have some driver problems and a lot of people have hardware compatybility problems, basically the sound card don't like your motherboard or other hardware in your machine .. And this is something I know for a fact.. Just look around forums,and stuff.. I have a friend who works at a local music store and he told me to stay avay.. they sell shit load of them but a lot of people come back crying they have major problems.. so just test it out on your system, or make sure you have the option of returnin it if it's not working properly..

You can eaven ask one of tranceaddict forums users, TANKPROJECT he recently got rid of his EMU, and his problems as well.. and went with RME ..

good day...

Posted by kaymak on Jun-10-2005 18:40:

quote:
Any M-Audio card will do.

Alright guys,
Im lookin for a new card myself, unfortunatly living at home i have to use headphones at least 50% of the time,
I know the a 2496 had no headphone socket,
Can u recommend on that has

Posted by nhibberd on Jun-10-2005 20:08:

Get the most expencive one

Posted by djyouth on Jun-10-2005 20:12:

quote:
Originally posted by kaymak
Alright guys,
Im lookin for a new card myself, unfortunatly living at home i have to use headphones at least 50% of the time,
I know the a 2496 had no headphone socket,
Can u recommend on that has

Get the Delta 44 or 66..

Posted by retiro on Jun-10-2005 21:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Icone
I'd agree with this. I'm very happy with my Audigy as it is

I have one of these Wim but I can't get on with it! I suffer latency problems, especially when running 3 instances of Superwave Proformer! Besides I have no XLR connectors to plug my Behringer Truths into! I am looking at the M-Audio 1010LT at present!

Posted by Beautiful Beast on Jun-10-2005 22:49:

Go German. Go thorough. Go Creamware Luna/Pulsar.

Posted by DJ_RoKo on Jun-14-2005 09:26:

i have a creative audigy and i suffer massive latency problems. Im currently looking at either the m-audio audiophile192 or delta1010lt. are these good cards or not, because ive heard mainly good things about them? and as for m-audio having bad drivers, they say that their speciality is thier rock solid drivers.

peace
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