Best SPDIF in/out soundcard?
Wouter Heijke
audio digitally both ways.
What is the best/cheapest PCI audio card to do this?
Thanks,
Wouter
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Garry Taylor
wrote:
>I want to connect my DAT recorder to my PentuimII 266 PC and record
>audio digitally both ways.
>What is the best/cheapest PCI audio card to do this?
>
I use a Turtle Beach pinnicle card to plug my DAT into. They're not
that cheap, but you can't fault the quality (I'm not sure how many
bits the DAC is, but it sounds good to me!)
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Garry Taylor wrote in message <35ed063c...@news.demon.co.uk>...
Kory
you can use the DAT's external DAC/ADC for recording and playback (with
higher quality)... currently I am running an SB Live! connected to my Tascam
DA-P1 portable DAT (16 bit), and it works nicely... the SB Live will even
upsample so when you're playing games with 22khz sound (like Quake 2) you
can still play it on the DAT (normally it would play back at 2x speed and
sound funny).
The nice thing about my setup is it's all PCI, no friggin ISA hardware
hammering on the CPU (Pinnacle and Fiji are ISA). I used to have a Digital
Audio Labs DOC (digital only card) but it was ISA, it fucked up the sound
when there was a lot of video activity (like when using realtime waveform
view updating while recording), it only had crappy Windows 3.1 drivers, and
the damned thing cost $300!! SB Live is PCI, it sounds fine when the video
is chugging, it has nice 32-bit PNP drivers, and it only cost me $185
(replaced my $50 Ensoniq and $300 DAL cards).
>Its 20 bit and a good choice. Pinnacle or Fiji will do what you want
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