Topic: looking for sound card recomendations

[Nick's Picks]

what i'm after is a card that has *excellent* analog output, as well as digital i/o.
i'm unconcerned about bit perfection in that regard.  Focus is more on the analog section.
perhaps some sort of USB or firewire outboard thingy to isolate it from a PC full of HDDs spinning away playing music.

[Church-Audio]

what i'm after is a card that has *excellent* analog output, as well as digital i/o.
i'm unconcerned about bit perfection in that regard.  Focus is more on the analog section.
perhaps some sort of USB or firewire outboard thingy to isolate it from a PC full of HDDs spinning away playing music.

I like the Audiophile 192 or the Focusrite saffire firewire. Both are good cards I use the Audiophile as my main sound card and its been very reliable and has a very good front end balanced inputs and outputs. No phantom of mic preamps but I am sure you already have that stuff.

[ford prefect]

I like the Audiophile 192 or the Focusrite saffire firewire. Both are good cards I use the Audiophile as my main sound card and its been very reliable and has a very good front end balanced inputs and outputs. No phantom of mic preamps but I am sure you already have that stuff.

Another vote for the "M-Audio" team.  I picked up a Delta DIO 2496 back when I owned an M1.  Since then I've been using the RCA-out for the living room mediacenter computer.  Music, movies etc...  Great sound.

[JD]

I recently got an ESI Juli@ soundcard, excellent sound
It also has the option of balanced TRS outputs.


http://www.floridamusicco.com/proddetail~prod~juli.htm

[wbrisette]

I like the MOTU 2408MK3. I haven't used the analog 1/4" inputs for recording. Folks have said those are noisy. I have used the analog outputs and the digital I/O, all of which I thought were top notch. It's a bit of a beast though, you have a I/O card that goes into your PC or Mac desktop, then what looks like a FireWire cable -- but it isn't -- that goes to the unit itself. I like how it can be rack mounted, but that can be a pain if you don't have room for that or want that.

Wayne

[barren4]

Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe

http://www.digitalaudio.com/DIGITALAUDIO/myarticles.asp?P=5210&S=75&PubID=4401