best bet bit perfect sound card?

[rreidiii]

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

[Kyle]

m-audio audiophile 2496

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

[F.O.Bean]

beat me to it kyle

[dnsacks]

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

[rreidiii]

thnx guys

[neumannkid]

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

[ethan]

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.

[ethan]

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

[F.O.Bean]

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