I have had a number of good sound cards but recently decided to purchase an 8 in and 8 out 24/96 card. I ended up with the Delta 1010 card and it is excellent and so far seems to be bullet proof. When I went to the shop to buy this card the sales guy said "why not by this Hoonrech Audio DSP24 + ADC/DAC2000" (which in Australia is sold as a C-Port Card) He explained that it was an exact copy of the Delta 1010 and was half the price. OK So I did my thing and made it quite clear that if this card was crap I would be back to either get my money back or I would burn down their shop and having dealt with my wrath before they knew that I was serious and agreed to let me try out the card and if it wasn't what it was supposed to be I could get the real thing or my money back. So here is the story .... the card installed easily no thanks to the manual which was written in broken english. Imediately I had problems whith s/pdif in from some sources in that the card didnt appear to sync properly to the incoming signal. The on board chip for normal windows sound functions was way worse than any basic sound blaster card in that it was distorted in the left channel and had a noise level up around -38. Channels 5 and 6 werent working at all either hardware in or wave out and after several days of reinstalling and checking software I did what I should have done in the first place and wiggled the cable that goes from the card to the breakout box and sure enough it was defective. After checking with my multimeter it was clear that 2 of the internal wires in the 44 way cable were broken ... after a week of waiting for a new cable to arrive which was supposedly put in a 24 hour overnight mail bag I crossed over to that place where i was ready to KILL.
Fortunately because these guys know that I know what I am talking about were happy for me to exchange this defective card for a real delta 1010 and I was happy to pay the extra money without a second thought. The interesting thing is that when I arrived back in my studio and installed the Delta 1010 my computer recognised it as the Hoontech card .... I guess it was some sort of a copy after all but certainly in the case of this particular card .... a very inferior one.
Their version of the monitor mixer/patch bay and hardware settings or links as they called it was complex and although it was more graphical was difficult to negotiate.
Ok enough .... get a Delta 1010 it really is a good card.
Fortunately because these guys know that I know what I am talking about were happy for me to exchange this defective card for a real delta 1010 and I was happy to pay the extra money without a second thought. The interesting thing is that when I arrived back in my studio and installed the Delta 1010 my computer recognised it as the Hoontech card .... I guess it was some sort of a copy after all but certainly in the case of this particular card .... a very inferior one.
Their version of the monitor mixer/patch bay and hardware settings or links as they called it was complex and although it was more graphical was difficult to negotiate.
Ok enough .... get a Delta 1010 it really is a good card.
