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Title: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: rreidiii on September 27, 2005, 01:11:05 AM

looking for a good and reasonably priced card. any suggestions?

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: Kyle on September 27, 2005, 01:13:59 AM

m-audio audiophile 2496

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Audiophile2496/

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: F.O.Bean on September 27, 2005, 02:14:34 AM

beat me to it kyle ;D

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: dnsacks on September 27, 2005, 09:44:23 AM

for playback or for transferring dats to your pc?  Optical or coax?

Audiophile 2496 is great for transferring dats and/or for a coax out.

For bit-perfect playback via its toslink optical out I use a flashed chaintech av-710 -- $25

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: rreidiii on September 27, 2005, 10:14:58 AM

thnx guys

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: neumannkid on September 27, 2005, 11:06:29 AM

try ebay for the m-audio card, you can usually find them for 35-50$

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: ethan on September 27, 2005, 01:32:57 PM

Quote from: neumannkid on September 27, 2005, 11:06:29 AM

try ebay for the m-audio card, you can usually find them for 35-50$

:O they're down to $50? wow...paid $175 2.5 years ago...time to pickup several and start droping them in my linux boxen.

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: ethan on September 27, 2005, 01:36:18 PM

whoa...never seen this before:

http://cgi.ebay.com/M-audio-Audiophile-USB-2496-sound-card-audio-card_W0QQitemZ7353254070QQcategoryZ41787QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Note that it's powered by an AC adapter....wonder if this thing could run in the field.

-e

Title: Re: best bet bit perfect sound card?
Post by: F.O.Bean on October 01, 2005, 09:27:51 AM

Quote from: dnsacks on September 27, 2005, 09:44:23 AM

for playback or for transferring dats to your pc?  Optical or coax?

Audiophile 2496 is great for transferring dats and/or for a coax out.

For bit-perfect playback via its toslink optical out I use a flashed chaintech av-710 -- $25

i believe i havew that same chaintech just to go from PC>receiver via optical output