Another friend of mine has an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card (delta?) and he says it's a charm. He uses Cubase SL and FL Studio (with ASIO), and a few other softwares (also with ASIO and DirectSound), he also has a very high quality microphone (cost him $450 but I think it was worth it because he gets crystal clarity when he does his vocals).
He says this card is really the best bang for the buck when it comes to high quality home recording, he told me to forget the Chaintech for home recording because of latency issues. He tells me the Audiophile can do a wide range of formats equally well, and the 192khz performance is bliss, he does 44.1khz to a 16-bit Wave file output for CD quality music and then he just burns it on to CD. I got one of his CDs and he's got nice tastes. He ordered his Audiophile from the USA as they are definately cheaper over there. In Australia they were going for about $400, but he paid about half that for his, so I thought good luck to him.
Full Version: The M-Audio Audiophile PCI card
QUOTE(ChangFest @ Jul 28 2004, 04:31 PM)
You can get it for $99.95 at zzsounds.com.
But they don't ship outside the US!
Creative seem to have a market monopoly in Australia.
QUOTE(dub_doctor @ Jul 27 2004, 10:53 PM)
QUOTE(ChangFest @ Jul 28 2004, 04:31 PM)
You can get it for $99.95 at zzsounds.com.
But they don't ship outside the US!
Creative seem to have a market monopoly in Australia.
I think I managed scored one for $119 US. Haven't recieved it yet, but hopefully it arrives next week.
I'm happy now. It doesn't have EAX (for gaming and stuff) or any extra fancy features, it's just a straight out-and-out recording/playback interface, but the excellent recording/playback quality is what I am really after, and it does have Dolby DTS pass-through which means that when I connect it up to my new Sony STRDE595 receiver and my DVD I should have the Dolby DTS playback.
When the Chaintech AV-710 comes in I'll sell it on. If anybody is interested, drop me a line.
I'm happy now. It doesn't have EAX (for gaming and stuff) or any extra fancy features, it's just a straight out-and-out recording/playback interface, but the excellent recording/playback quality is what I am really after, and it does have Dolby DTS pass-through which means that when I connect it up to my new Sony STRDE595 receiver and my DVD I should have the Dolby DTS playback.
When the Chaintech AV-710 comes in I'll sell it on. If anybody is interested, drop me a line.
eh, my link to ebay showed the card for AU $200.00 + $10 postage.
QUOTE(ChangFest @ Jul 27 2004, 10:31 PM)
You can get it for $99.95 at zzsounds.com.
the card costs about the same (~90euro) in europe ..
QUOTE(benjamind @ Jul 27 2004, 09:11 PM)
Another friend of mine has an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card (delta He tells me the Audiophile can do a wide range of formats equally well,
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and the 192khz performance is bliss
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and the 192khz performance is bliss
As the name implies, the card tops out at 96kHz 24 bit.
I works at 192 kHz too, but through resampling, which adds some distorsion when I did a RMAA loopback test. So theres no point in using higher than 92 kHz.
EDIT: I meant 96 kHz, of couse.
EDIT: I meant 96 kHz, of couse.
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