AudioPhile 24/96

[frankiesgroove]

I am about to purchase the Audiophile 24/96 for my home studio.
I am just going to be using the following software
Acid
Reason.
I do not have the money to purchase allot of hardware at the moment.
Will this card work fine untill I upgrade my studio.
MY Specs
PC
Pentium 4 1.7GHZ
256 RDRAM
80 GIG HD
Please help me???
Thanks,
Frankie

 

[sdallen24]

I don't know what hardware you have, but the AP2496 is a good card. It has all the basics; Analog I/O, Midi I/O, S/PDIF. I have one in my computer. I use the Audio Buddy dual preamp to go into the anolog ins. Perfect for amateur home recording.

I did what you are doing, read a lot and post questions. From my research it seems that M-Audio is fairly well respected for low-noise equipment and good technical support.

I would just make sure that the inputs and outputs are exactly what you need. If you don't need MIDI, there are some other cards in the same range that have balanced Analog I/O and maybe even preamps (?).

Do your research. If you decide on the AP 2496, you will have made a good choice. If you have any questions about compatibility, I would suggest sending an email to the M-audio people.

Shaen

 

[frankiesgroove]

Thanks for your help
I will not be using much hardware at first just a midi controller.
I will be producing house music
basically loop based music
Do you think the audiophile is fine?

 

[jwgeetar]

i hope you have better luck getting it to work than i did. still trying after 2 weeks ownership of said card.check out my posts.jwgeetar

 

[Gidge]

Another Audiophile fan here.....if it meets your needs as far as I/O, then it is the card for you....for the price, you wont find better.....

 

[Rochey]

you should have no problems with it. To my knowledge, M-Audio tech support will always support Intel chipsets and processors.

The main problems that the Delta series has suffered from is poorly made athalon motherboards with a bug in the PCI controller.

My conversations with the M-Audio tech support team here in the UK, as well as the US has lead me to believe that these cards are a 'rock-steady-eddie' on an intel pentium platform.


Admittedly, there have been bug fixes etc and Athalon mobo's are now a lot better. But, too many people's hands were burnt (with pop's and cracks from the soundcard). I'm still a little cautious. I'd rather spend a little more and know it'll work, rather than go cheap and hope like crazy. And belive me, i'm skint as well.

Just my opinon.


Rochey